Today was my day off...in theory...I knew I had a call and I had a few other things to do, I'm so busy at the moment and it's feeling hard to switch off. I got woken up by Qubit making his "I've caught a creature" noise and so I went down and found him with a dead bird. I put the bird in a plastic bag and by the front door and went back to bed. I then heard him rustling around the milk bottles by the front door, so went down again and moved Alan's bike so that I could shut the door to the hall. Maya then came upstairs and was sick twice next to the bed onto the beige carpet that we definitely wouldn't have chosen if we had carpeted it!
I stayed in bed mooching around for a bit watching videos and read a bit of Where the Crawdads Sing (I'm way behind in my reading schedule for my Uni of Leeds Alumni bookclub) and Alan brought me a coffe and then I got dressed and went down to make breakfast at around 11am and I made scrambled eggs on toast for brunch and listened to The Archers and the High Low podcast. I did some work and prepped for a call that I had at 2pm with a client. We heard a noise and Alan thought there was some post, he said "Lucy did you just leave that bird out?" and the little sparrow I thought that Qubit had killed was still alive, I'd put it in a bag and it had pooed into the bag, but fortunately managed to peck it's way out and Alan opened the front door and it flew away. I weirdly felt more sad that I nearly killed it by accident and it survived than potentially if it was just dead. At least he got to fly away.
We watched PMQs and it was mostly Bojo chanting 3 word slogans "build build, build" and "jobs, jobs, jobs" it's frustrating. I wish they would be kinder and more strategic with their solutions. It was later announced that if you go and eat out you'll get 50% up to £10 off a meal Monday to Wednesday. I love eating out and I feel really conflicted as I want to do everything I can to support good restaurants, pubs and even good chain restaurants, but I am worried that this is too soon to be piling back into public spaces.
I had my client call at 2pm and it went well, and I managed to do some work on the role that I'd picked up which was positive. I then ate some left over orzotto from Saturday for a late lunch at walked to my friend Gemma's house to take her 1 year old out for a walk in the buggy. Gem is finding balancing her return from mat leave in lockdown really hard as her husband's role is really busy and her little one is lively. I've been meaning to help out for ages, but this was probably the first time it felt safe and within the guidelines to do so. I took little one in the buggy for a walk and santised my hands and Gem put her in so I didn't have to touch her and she was in front of me all the time other than when I'd stop and check in from a safe distance. We walked a good 5K together and I realised that my watch wasn't registering my steps on the buggy! She seemed happy with me, no tears, she pulled her socks off and kicked her legs and fortunately the weather held and I've said that I'd take her out again tomorrow.
I got in and faffed around a bit more doing some work as I had interviews to arrange and I messaged a lot of people about the job.
It was my friend Han's birthday today and she got the art equipment that I'd sent her from The Works and she did 2 drawings - I said it was a DIY birthday card. I hope that she's had a good day.
Alan kindly cooked tea which was delicious a Hello Fresh recipe of pulled chicken burgers wtih salad and chips (he added liquid smoke which made it delicious) and I didn't run and I felt bad about not going for a run, but I'm very tired - so tomorrow I'll go twice as far. We watched some Spooks which is really great! I also booked my online course for tomorrow at Arvon. Alan then went up to bed so I watched some more Catfish.
I stayed in bed mooching around for a bit watching videos and read a bit of Where the Crawdads Sing (I'm way behind in my reading schedule for my Uni of Leeds Alumni bookclub) and Alan brought me a coffe and then I got dressed and went down to make breakfast at around 11am and I made scrambled eggs on toast for brunch and listened to The Archers and the High Low podcast. I did some work and prepped for a call that I had at 2pm with a client. We heard a noise and Alan thought there was some post, he said "Lucy did you just leave that bird out?" and the little sparrow I thought that Qubit had killed was still alive, I'd put it in a bag and it had pooed into the bag, but fortunately managed to peck it's way out and Alan opened the front door and it flew away. I weirdly felt more sad that I nearly killed it by accident and it survived than potentially if it was just dead. At least he got to fly away.
We watched PMQs and it was mostly Bojo chanting 3 word slogans "build build, build" and "jobs, jobs, jobs" it's frustrating. I wish they would be kinder and more strategic with their solutions. It was later announced that if you go and eat out you'll get 50% up to £10 off a meal Monday to Wednesday. I love eating out and I feel really conflicted as I want to do everything I can to support good restaurants, pubs and even good chain restaurants, but I am worried that this is too soon to be piling back into public spaces.
I had my client call at 2pm and it went well, and I managed to do some work on the role that I'd picked up which was positive. I then ate some left over orzotto from Saturday for a late lunch at walked to my friend Gemma's house to take her 1 year old out for a walk in the buggy. Gem is finding balancing her return from mat leave in lockdown really hard as her husband's role is really busy and her little one is lively. I've been meaning to help out for ages, but this was probably the first time it felt safe and within the guidelines to do so. I took little one in the buggy for a walk and santised my hands and Gem put her in so I didn't have to touch her and she was in front of me all the time other than when I'd stop and check in from a safe distance. We walked a good 5K together and I realised that my watch wasn't registering my steps on the buggy! She seemed happy with me, no tears, she pulled her socks off and kicked her legs and fortunately the weather held and I've said that I'd take her out again tomorrow.
I got in and faffed around a bit more doing some work as I had interviews to arrange and I messaged a lot of people about the job.
It was my friend Han's birthday today and she got the art equipment that I'd sent her from The Works and she did 2 drawings - I said it was a DIY birthday card. I hope that she's had a good day.
Alan kindly cooked tea which was delicious a Hello Fresh recipe of pulled chicken burgers wtih salad and chips (he added liquid smoke which made it delicious) and I didn't run and I felt bad about not going for a run, but I'm very tired - so tomorrow I'll go twice as far. We watched some Spooks which is really great! I also booked my online course for tomorrow at Arvon. Alan then went up to bed so I watched some more Catfish.
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