A trip to Reading

[wellinghall]

CPD day in Reading. Acceptable (although with several minor niggles), until it came to home time; when the bus wouldn't start. An hour later, we were told that a replacement bus would be at least another 40 minutes, and that anyone who needed to get home quickly could get the train and put it on expenses. So a bunch of us did, my dotted line boss putting our tickets on his company credit card.

I got home at 7:10 pm, only eleven and a half hours after leaving this morning.

Now for dinner, and Jeeves and Wooster, and a bath, and bed.

How was your day?

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[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Mine was interesting. See an email on the trustees list.

The cat slept through the day. Apademek sent on a wild(ish) goose chase, I have magnetic anomalies in the bedroom.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes ... "interesting".

So what are the magnetic anomalies?

[gramarye1971]

Your icon is summarising mine quite well at the moment, unfortunately.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Agh! *hugs*

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

You mean apart from the dog eating my mobile phone...?

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

Sorry to pry, but is that a Manchester Terrier? ^ because I like them :)

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Depends if you're in the UK or the US. If in the UK, Draco is an English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan) and in the States, a Manchester Terrier (Toy).

i.e. Yes, he's a Manchester, but the mini version!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well spotted!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Is the dog okay? Is the phone okay?

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The dog is fine.

The phone is still just about working, but looking at the battery and the holes in the case, I think I am going to have to replace it!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

How very annoying, although Jeeves and Wooster should help.

My day was spent ameliorating my cold by writing fic and watching clips of "The Merry Widow" on YouTube.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Jeeves and Wooster generally helps :-)

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

I read 'niggles' as 'giggles'. And the I imagined a load of men in business suits giggling on the bus like a bunch of shoolgirls. :)

Got good news, made a disastrous dinner good and am re-watching Mad Men.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Smart casual, I'm afraid, tho' a few people (senior bods and the presenters) were in suits. And the last presentation did raise some giggles (intentionally!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Agh, sorry at the lack of response! (And the dead phone).

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Very enjoyable teaching, interrupted by blood donation (session at our school) and computer woes (half-term grades due today + massive hardware failure on both servers = no email at all + stressed staff)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I greatly admire blood donors. Well done!

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Wodehouse good. Unbuses, not good.
My day was quite good, considering. And involved making changes on the live database for the first time.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how exciting! :-)

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Got up, got dressed, got Na'Quis dressed, got me and Na'Quis breakfast. Got her to nursery later than intended as she wanted to be with Na'Lon for breakfast. Pootled at the computer this morning while Na'Lon worked from home, made her lunch and arranged a taxi to get her into work. Went to pick up Na'Quis from nursery had lunch with her, messed about with her in garden with water bottles, changed her and took her shopping, with her pushing one of her bears in her little pushchair, then to the slide on the way home (easily summarised as spent 1300-1945ish with a very active toddler), unpacked shopping, got the spare mattress out for Na'Quis to bounce on, made dinner, struggled with Spyware Doctor having forgotten my licence. Made up beds for night, ate dinner with Na'Quis, played, changed her into pyjamas and waited for Na'Lon to get home. Then brushed Na'Quis' teeth and while she demanded 'mummy milk' from her newly returned mother I made up a bottle of 'papa milk' and reinstalled Spyware Doctor.

Now as Na'Quis is still wide awake Na'Lon has had her dinner and is reading with NQ in the living room while I have a break and surf. And tomorrow apparently Na'Lon has to be at work for before her 9am lecture to print stuff for it :(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Phew!

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Mine was better than yours, I think! Busy morning in work, Amazon package arrived at lunchtime [Bede, Asser and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle which I took back to work to read sneakily!] then this evening after checking the stock extra carefully[someone had rung to say their dog had bitten a lamb] I scrubbed up the landrover and trailer ready for a 4.30am start to take two steers to the abattoir.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I trust the flock were all okay?

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

The lamb's tail had been bitten clean off but amazingly it seems OK otherwise.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Busy, went out at 9.20 came in at 23.00. A powercut ate my homework somewhere in the middle!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh noes!

[firin.livejournal.com]

Today was mainly baby-minding, with sporadic bursts of Japanese language learning. I managed to persuade the munchkin to go to sleep mid-afternoon, so I could have an online lesson via Rosetta Stone.

Eventually, computer gaming with Toryin in the evening, about to be followed by bed in the next half hour. We go to bed scandalously early at about 9pm, but it's the only way to survive a youngster!

Or, I suppose I could say:

Kyou wa, watashi no aka-chan-o mite imashita. EJ-chan wa, miluku-o nonde imashita; kanojo no usagito asonde imashita. Watashi wa, nihongo-o benkyou shimashita. Ima wa, daininguruumu de shujinto konpyuutaa no geemu-o shite imasu.

I'm cheating by using a progressive form of the past verb for what I did today, as I haven't learned the actual past yet. :o I don't even know if I'm supposed to be able to make that past form. So, to any Japanese speaking persons reading my mangled grammar, I apologise!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am still impressed!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

There's no day that can't be improved a little by some Jeeves & Wooster. :-)

Of course, I ended my yesterday by watching Hugh Laurie as House, and that wasn't bad, either.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's no day that can't be improved a little by some Jeeves & Wooster. :-)

As you say :-)