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beanielou

Happy Friday. Enjoy your weekend. 

KajiKita

beanielou said:

Happy Friday. Enjoy your weekend. 

Thanks Beanie 😊
You too x

KK

debtfreewannabe321

I messaged DP and said don't worry about picking me up I need to walk off my bad back...he messaged back with something along the lines of are you mad? I hadn't noticed the weather had got around five times worse since starting work and was glad he ignored me and collected me anyway 🤣 very stormy and wet. 

Hope you have a relaxing weekend!

KajiKita

debtfreewannabe321 said:

I messaged DP and said don't worry about picking me up I need to walk off my bad back...he messaged back with something along the lines of are you mad? I hadn't noticed the weather had got around five times worse since starting work and was glad he ignored me and collected me anyway 🤣 very stormy and wet. 

Hope you have a relaxing weekend!

Another reason why your DP is a keeper …. 😊

In other news, my quality engineer is being made homeless, again, for the 7th, maybe 8th time since becoming an adult (he’s only in his early 30s 😳). His landlord is selling the flat he and his girlfriend are in and wants them out by March. He’s being remarkably level headed and calm about it, but I have told him firmly, that he can immediately have time to view anything that comes up and I can do him an employer reference for the credit check (he’d mentioned the first thing to me but not the second, but I know the drill as I have done it before). He said he appreciated it and I said there wasn’t much I could do to help him, but I didn’t want those details adding to his stress levels.

KK

KajiKita

And while I remember I had a softer moment with my mum this week …

I’m rereading Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies atm, as Mrs Do As You Would Be Done By has always been one of the tenets by which I live, my North Star if you will. I wanted to understand why that character had made such an impact on me from being read the story when I was wee. As I was reading I started remembering sitting by the gas fire in the Day Nursery (yes, my parents really called it that … 🤷‍♀️), the softly coloured illustrations in the book, my mum reading to me … And then, I’m still reading and thinking this section is really boring … (for those that don’t know it, it’s a Victorian story about a young chimney sweep who runs away from his master for innocent reasons, becomes a water baby and learns much about himself and life in his following adventures, but inserted in this reasonably engaging story are great chunks of philosophical waffle / proselytising … I started to skip them (I want to get to Mrs DAYWBDB! 😉) and then remembered my mum skipping these too …

I replied to my dad’s weekly ‘climbing mountains’ email and as well asked my mum if my recollection was correct. In response I got this:

 “ Yes, I do indeed remember reading the Water Babies, and watching carefully to see when interest might be slipping and some pages quietly omitted . . .”

This made me happy. It’s not often that I come across evidence of my mother caring about how I was feeling about things as a child (or now 😉). That intellectual effort is exactly apt for how my mother is … 🤷‍♀️❤️😊

KK