Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

Ah yes, bedding dried on the line is definitely worth it! 🥰 

Made it home, and it's still (just about) light! 😃

Baileys_Babe

I always feel it is a double win when you can wash the bedding, dry it outside and then back on the bed the same day. First win, no need to put the clean bedding away - for some reason I loath this job. Second win, the linen will smell fantastic.

Ramouth

Could Mr Cheery have had a forgotten Alliance and Leicester account?  They were taken over by Santander

Cheery_Daff

Ramouth said:

Could Mr Cheery have had a forgotten Alliance and Leicester account?  They were taken over by Santander

It's possible - but they've sent no correspondence in the last 18 years so it seems unlikely! Who knows. No interest in investigating - they'll either give him the switch incentive or they won't, and either way it'll be used as a sacrifice account for the next switch anyway.

Merlin's_Beard

Baileys_Babe said:

I always feel it is a double win when you can wash the bedding, dry it outside and then back on the bed the same day. First win, no need to put the clean bedding away - for some reason I loath this job. Second win, the linen will smell fantastic.

I actively hate folding bedding, so I wash/reuse the same set for months on end 

Cheery_Daff

Update on my mother - she has indeed broken her ankle 🙄 She didn't want to go to the walk in centre yesterday because the swelling had gone down even though it was quite bruised, and she was hobbling about on it fine. But she popped in just to check today, and it's broken 🙄 They've given her crutches and a boot and sent her to the DVT clinic. 

So that's both parents with a non-functioning foot each! For goodness sake 🙄 Good job they don't live together or else it'd be like some kind of comedy show 🙄😂

Anyway, she's fine - she's got a friend picking her up shortly, and she should be able to get the bus or a lift to work on Tuesday, and her car will just have to stay in the work car park til she can drive again. They're sending her to the fracture clinic but she's not sure when, or whether she'll have to have a cast. I've told her to ask more questions and write the answers down!! 

In the meantime, I myself am having a lovely day in the garden in the sunshine, although I'm now at the point of trying to level the ground to lay my tiny quarry tile patio so the air is rather less birdsong and sheep and more swearing 😂

Greying_Pilgrim

Oh Cheery - your poor mum!  At least a specific diagnosis will make her sick leave entirely valid.  A broken bone is a broken bone. No-one can argue with that.

Her car isn't likely to attract any specific parking charges is it?  I know our local health facilities charge employees, albeit at a discounted rate, and I suspect they have to display a pass of some description. 

Brew yerself a cup of builders tea, and set your pick-axe down for a mo 👍😁

Greying X 

Cheery_Daff

Sadly the validity of her sick leave has never been in question - it's the specific number of episodes in a year that triggers a review (four! Even if they're only a day each!) But she doesn't technically need to be off sick - she'll be fine to do her job, she just can't drive there. We are all very ready for her to reach retirement! 

I am making progress with my patio, although of course it's going slower than I'd hoped.



No chance it will be finished today. I'll do a few more tiles then make time to pot up my birthday plants 😊 Then it might be time for tea, and an end to hard labour for the day.

redofromstart

Yep I'm afraid if she doesn't need to walk at work it is her problem not her employers. I generally prefer employees to be in the union for capability processes as they then have to explain the agreed criteria and the need to be cabable of working to the employee, being in a union isn't a magic get out of jail free card. That said I can't imagine them pushing her out if she has informed them of her intention to retire, but they still have to follow the process or they can not justify why not they did for others who are extracting the Michael. 

redofromstart

If your mum hadn't already I would suggest appealing every stage to draw it out to retirement.