Blame the "run" for that 2.5
@Mel dCP !
So, by 8.30 p.m. last night, 76 hours after my neighbour's gas leak, I have a working gas supply once more, a meter on the outside wall ("Costs a lot to do this usually." the three men on the case all informed me. along with all their different takes on the mess ups in communications all round.) I have bathed, and am planning today's cooking. I did without an oven for over a year when I moved in here, as I didn't really use one much but three evenings without my gas hob has been more than enough.
@Robinredbreast . I did taxi escort for a few months three years ago and the two families are still grateful for the way I handled it to get their off-spring to and from home well and happy, but understood why I had to stop doing it at their point I did. One of them I still see from time to time, and he is always pleased to see me. The other saw me in the supermarket one day recently, and immediately burst into our "Taxi Song" mid- Sainsbury's! (It was a bit of a nonsense song based on the vehicles and shops we saw between college and home.)
I think it's much more common to get overwhelmed with student presents from very grateful parents in the specialist education sector! Though, I was relieved this year only to get a book (A lovely one and really thoughtful choice as his mum told me he'd informed her of my diabetes, my love of reading and my love of walking, so she helped with the idea of a book as an option, but he chose the book.) and a bottle of wine which I passed on to Main Paid Colleague. Who will not be my main colleague next year, unless something drastic happens between now and September. Always a high possibility, as we both know how systems work at our place. There's often a shake-up in support allocation, which is unshaken two months into the new year when what had been a solid working team has collapsed in a heap because the real lynchpin of the team had been removed. (Both of us have been through it before, and after much angst decided to play the long game of wait and see rather than a fight to keep things as they are has served well in the past.)
It's fair to say, this morning Madame DP took total advantage of my utter exhaustion, lack of usual exercise over the last three evenings, and just to remind me she's still on the case, to dump as much on me as possible.