Another Day of Home Working
This morning all staff were told to check their email at 6.00am to see if our place of work was open. I was up at 5.45am with my email account open and an email pinged in at about 6.15 am saying we were open as usual and the sub-text was everyone was expected to make the effort to get in.
I decided to wait until it was a least light and set off even though there had been another 2 inches of snow lying on top of the icy slush. Once on the motorway, things got scary and all three lanes were starting to get snow packed down on them. I crawled along, fully intending to carry on, only to see a car a few lengths ahead of me spin out of control and land on the verge - still intact thank goodness. That was enough for me and I crept up to the next junction, came off the motorway and turned around and headed home.
My colleague soldiered in from her home, coming in the opposite direction to me, and emailed me to see it had been a terrible journey and she was shaking and in tears by the time she got to work as it had been so traumatic and she had been so relieved to get there with her car and herself in one piece.
Anyway, here at home, the weather has done everything today; there's been thick snow, hailstones, sleat, periods of sunshine and now rain - very very changeable. Peter and I have been homeworking again today as his trains still weren't functioning today either(wherever they were abadoned yesterday means they are envariably in the wrong place for today so it takes a day for them to get fully sorted out again).
I've been feeling a bit 'off' all week and can't seem to shake a background headache and a wheezy chest - nothing serious and I can still function but I just don't feel right.
It's my aunts funeral tomorrow so I'm hoping the journey to a rather outlying village will be ok, that my brother will be able to travel down from Bristol safely and that I'll be feeling a bit more like 'me'.
Not much I fancy on box this evening I fear, I did catch the wonderful 'Whitechapel' from last night which was right up my street - wonderful stuff.
Im enjoying my latest book, Wilkie Collins the Moonstone but haven't really picked it up the last couple of days as the font size is tiny and it wouldn't help my headache - can't wait to get another good read in though.
I decided to wait until it was a least light and set off even though there had been another 2 inches of snow lying on top of the icy slush. Once on the motorway, things got scary and all three lanes were starting to get snow packed down on them. I crawled along, fully intending to carry on, only to see a car a few lengths ahead of me spin out of control and land on the verge - still intact thank goodness. That was enough for me and I crept up to the next junction, came off the motorway and turned around and headed home.
My colleague soldiered in from her home, coming in the opposite direction to me, and emailed me to see it had been a terrible journey and she was shaking and in tears by the time she got to work as it had been so traumatic and she had been so relieved to get there with her car and herself in one piece.
Anyway, here at home, the weather has done everything today; there's been thick snow, hailstones, sleat, periods of sunshine and now rain - very very changeable. Peter and I have been homeworking again today as his trains still weren't functioning today either(wherever they were abadoned yesterday means they are envariably in the wrong place for today so it takes a day for them to get fully sorted out again).
I've been feeling a bit 'off' all week and can't seem to shake a background headache and a wheezy chest - nothing serious and I can still function but I just don't feel right.
It's my aunts funeral tomorrow so I'm hoping the journey to a rather outlying village will be ok, that my brother will be able to travel down from Bristol safely and that I'll be feeling a bit more like 'me'.
Not much I fancy on box this evening I fear, I did catch the wonderful 'Whitechapel' from last night which was right up my street - wonderful stuff.
Im enjoying my latest book, Wilkie Collins the Moonstone but haven't really picked it up the last couple of days as the font size is tiny and it wouldn't help my headache - can't wait to get another good read in though.
posted by Lover of Books, Films and Good Coffee Shops Everywhere! at
2:26 PM
1 Comments:
Honestly they shouldn't expect you to go in under such circumstances - it's ruddy ridiculous!!!! What stupidity to ask people to do that.
Sorry about your aunt though - and hope tomorrow is as okay as it can be.
Love & hugs
Axxx
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