Stephanie

So today I have applied for a job. My latest assignment for my course was graded and I have now completed the first unit.
I still have Battenberg cake.

Back into the fray…
At least there’s cake.

It is of course ALL gf 😁

Anyone fancy a brew and a slice of cake? I baked muffins to use up bananas. Bought GF carrot cake muffins because they were yellow stickered. Baked a Battenberg because it’s the king of cakes and my birthday. Got free cake in Costa. Daughter got me a piece of my fave cake from our fave cafe today.

There are but none with the pay and employment benefits I currently have and sadly those things do matter. I’m more than keeping an eye out for options now though.

I am looking, it’s tricky because almost every other option I can envisage means a drop in pay, I just need to find an affordable option which I’m sure I will if I’m meant to.

Thank you, I’m looking and I’m sure if it’s meant to be something will turn up. It was just a bad start to the day, not a bad day. Son is taking me out for tea 🙂

Thanks Paula. Not enjoying work at all but liking even less the ‘just leave, life’s too short’ advice givers 😡

People who can just walk away from toxic work places are very privileged. As a single income household without a degree education, don’t know how, when or even if I can leave my job but I was in tears (again) before 7:30am (and on my birthday) something needs to change.
Any sensible advice welcome…

A view through a narrow covered ginnel. The road bordered with large setts. The path curves to the left, the walls on the right a mix of rendered, stone and concrete.

There are lots of little ginnels and back streets here to make an otherwise mundane walk around the block that bit more interesting.
#onmywalk #cumbria

A sagging cobweb covered in pretty little rain droplets stand out against a darkened, soft focus background of rusty autumn bracken

Water droplets on a cobweb caught my eye on my walk at the weekend.
#photography📷

A bike is partially in the frame facing the view out across grassy coast which leads out to a bay, a channel of still water with sand on the other side

Got up and went out on my bike this morning before that persuasive voice in my head had time to talk me out of it.
#cycling #bikes #cumbria

A snazzy white logo reading Boom Dang on a red top. The letter o in Boom represented by drums

The season kicks off today with a double gig Saturday
#drumming #music

On the left a staircase with a fancy iron balustrade. The main focus of the photo is a sign on a wide stone column which reads cigarette ends and match stalks must not be thrown on the floor.

Preserved from another time

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
#AlphabetTechPhoto #LightAndShadows

Most of them did haha.
Tractors are huge nowadays, the majority of the children could stand in the rim of the back wheel.

A group of adults pose on and beside a large green tractor wearing animal themed dressing up outfits

World Book Day. Love this team 😍

Me and my team are very excited for #worldbookday this year. As a class we are celebrating ‘Driving my Tractor’ by Jan Dobbins. Staff are all dressing up as farm animals and an actual tractor is coming to school.
Not that we are competitive but we are so going to outdo all the other teaching staff.

A path winds ahead bordered with dry stone wall. A dog walks on the path. The view in the distance is over a small town and out to sea across Morecambe bay, and a hazy sky with a hint of palest pink

Evening walk over the hill before tea.
#onmywalk #cumbria

A single track lane stretches ahead with dry stone walls either side. Steep grassy fields over the walls. A few trees ahead and a grey sky

A bike leans against a dry stone wall. Over the wall a view of tree covered hills, buildings below seem tiny from this height

Sundays are for cycling. Even in Winter… Just need to keep it up.
#cycling

A photo of a puddle on a quiet city street. Two yellow no parking lines curve around the edge of the pavement. Reflected in the puddle is the curved building of Manchester Central Library

#10minutesfromhome
Manchester Central Library this afternoon

I really do like travelling on the train but if a journey is important or I have to be somewhere for a certain time I won’t risk it anymore. Delays and cancellations are the norm here now. I’d be stuck if I didn’t drive.

Well, how that goes this weekend remains to be seen on Sunday…

And they want us to reduce traffic on the roads and emissions!
I’m feeling very cross, think I need to put my phone down and go and have a cup of tea.

So I am just home from the 2 hour round trip to Lancaster so daughter could get a train and not miss her weekend away. Her £27 ticket has actually ended up costing her £ £86 😡😡
She will argue for a refund but even if she gets it the standard unreliability of our rail service here infuriating.

Connection at Lancaster well and truly missed now. She tried to save a few quid on the Lancaster to London leg with a saver option but that was a non refundable ticket not valid on any other service.

RANT INCOMING. The rail service in the North is an absolute joke. 30min delay on daughters train, not yet a problem. Train arrives but then barely made it out of the station due to ‘technical issue’ 20mins later was taken back to the station! No further trains getting through there then.

A school photo. 3 rows of children tiered at different heights, two adults stood slightly behind the back row. The backdrop is a display of child crafted flowers and butterflies. 3 Hymn sheets hang over the display, these were used for assembly.

Lovely chat going on over on FB thanks to me posting this school photo from 1979!
#memories

Cleaner arrived at school this morning to find a gull that had somehow managed to get locked in overnight! As the next one to arrive, and braver than the cleaner, I carried the poor thing outside. #heroineoftheday

Thanks. She is very photogenic though which helps 😁