Ooooook

😂 his favourite too - steak!

Just put the oven on ready to start tea so naturally husband goes on a Zoom work call that ISN’T IN THE DIARY. When am I getting my steak and chips now?

😂 not quite - a little cropped and short in the sleeves. I’m blocking it to see if I can ease it a little bigger.

So far today I’ve borked my laptop. (Thanks Microsoft) and shrunk my favourite baggy jumper. This Monday could be going better.

Microsoft has struck down my work productivity again. How can they be simultaneously so successful and so awful?

A Common Toad sits motionless in the grass, staring dead ahead with a grumpy, resigned expression. Its squat, unimpressed face perfectly captures the Monday mood...tired, unbothered, and just surviving.

The official face of Monday.

#MondayMotivation

Close ups of the head of a wooden statue in dunes

A reminder to smile at the start of another working week 🧐😉

The spectacular wooden statue of the Uig chess king, standing in dunes close to the findspot in the far west of the Isle of Lewis 🫅. And his back is even better! 😮

A real bucket-list moment to visit him by bike in June 2024 👌

📷 My own

This is true! Very dangerous and risky 👍🏻

So apparently a lack of sleep is not a good enough justification to avoid running 5 miles today. 🤨
I want a second opinion on that.

Job tats

a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a sign that says and the less said about the end the better . Alt: a man with a mustache is sitting in front of a sign that says and the less said about the end the better .

I’ve reached the “spinning round on my chair” point of my report writing day.
Full wibble incoming very soon.

Excellent idea.

a woman in a blue shirt says there 's an aroma on the bottom Alt: a woman in a blue shirt says there 's an aroma on the bottom

Husband and I have just started operation Eat More Fibre…👀

Oh yes 😔

New pointless middle aged injury. I moved my hand and I now have excruciating pain in my fingers and can’t grip anything 🤨

Once a year I attend a “do” with people who go out there/work there. When I say I have never been and have no intention of ever going they leave me alone 😊

a man in a purple suit stands behind a table with business requests written on the top Alt: a man in a purple suit stands behind a table with business requests written on the top spinning plates on poles

I’m in a deadline doom cycle. Plates are going to stop spinning, dominoes will fall. It’s a whole thing.

“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

From the other place.

Sorry to hear that. I always go for simple honesty. It’s harder for you than the child. They have very short sadness windows at that age… Sad thing happened. Dog has died. That means its body stopped working so we won’t see him anymore. But we will still think about him and love him in our hearts.

I have a plan. Let’s tell all the billionaires that the earth is going to be destroyed by a massive asteroid in a month’s time, but they can save themselves by getting on Musk and Bezos’ rocket things with their cryogenic chambers.
Then when they’ve gone, we’ll sort everything out.

"Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of 'democracy' with Carrot and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone* had a vote…
Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.
Terry Pratchett; The Fifth Elephant #Discworld #GortonAndDenton
#ByElection #DontVoteReform 🐘🗳️

Breaking my no caffeine after noon rule to get through last 4 hours of work today. I’ll catch up with you all on here at midnight when I’m STILL WIRED 🤣

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Looong day today. Work tour of Bury, Cheetham Hill and Salford. You may see me at various coffee stops along the way.

Morning lovely

We are teaching ourselves to be stupid. MIT studies show that use of AI reduces learning, consolidation and development of analytical skills 🙄

I’m still trying to decide. I’m having sausage, egg and chips for tea though, so there’s that 😊

So that was Monday. If anyone needs me I will be doing some angry tired yoga and contemplating my life choices.

Soooooo many accidents on the motorway today. It’s heavy rain = standing water = slow down a bit tinklepeeps.
Here endeth today’s lesson.