Unprecedented times (rolling eyes emoji)

A bit like when you go into a supermarket for a pint of milk and spend £37.92 but forget the milk, yesterday I went to have my nails done and came out of the salon with my eyebrows waxed and tinted.

First time I've ever done this, and perhaps the last. On arrival at home, Daniel looked aghast and said: "What have you done mum? It reminds me of that film, the one with those black and white dogs, you know what I mean mum?!"

A few moments of thought and the penny dropped. Yep, clearly my eyebrows were more Cruella De Vil than Julia Roberts!"

I spotted that once again 12 months have passed since I last updated my blog. And what a 12 months it's been! Largely dedicated to the major overuse of the two words 'unprecedented' and 'times'.

My life has moved on enormously from Community and Environmental Support Officer to Community Coordinator to Team Leader at a Community Testing Centre to Community Partnership Manager - seems I'm doomed to always have the word 'Community' in my job title!!

Speaking of my new job, my friend sent me a congratulatory message the other day which was ironically sabotaged by either predictive text, fat fingers or she didn't have her glasses on!

Instead of saying "new beginnings around the corner....." she said asked whether I was looking forward to a new era of  "begging around the corner...." Clearly doesn't have much faith that this job's going to last!

Working at a Covid-19 community testing site has been a novel experience - I never imagined I'd be spending my days saying to complete strangers, "please rub it up and down five times each side and avoid it touching your tongue, teeth or cheeks", and then asking them to clean down the mirror with a wet wipe!

Things we do to earn a crust eh!? Oh well, beats getting the begging bowl out.....

A blog wouldn't be a blog without some reference to Teddy'isms and I was having a text tidy on my mobile phone the other day and was intrigued to see the main content of my text conversations with the boy

(many of which are carried out while we are under the same roof). 

"Can I have some data please mum x?"

"Can I have some money for dinner please mum x?"

"What's for tea x?"

"I need the car today x"

"What time's tea x?"

"Love you mum, night night x"

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