Moving forward
Sep. 25th, 2021 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilySo the main outcome of my annual review was that we're looking to get the business case for my regrade done by the end of the year - yay! Now I just have to find some time amongst all the meetings and refreshing the framework and tweaking the documentation (ie, DOING the job!) to gather evidence. I know it's all there and I know I can find it - I just need some time!
I did make some time this week to sort out the bulk of my annual leave. My first two days are coming up at the end of October. At the moment, I have at least one important meeting a week, so it's not going to be possible to get a full week's leave but I've also booked three days in November. Depending when our Christmas break starts this year (I'm expecting to work 20-23 December, although we have been given the twenty-third off before now), I may use up one or two of my spare days then. But I have the first week in Jan (with 3 Jan being a bank holiday, I get a week for the price of 4 leave days!) - and the week before my birthday went in as standard!
My plan for the October leave is to tidy up the garden. All of the shrubs need a good cutting back. And one of the self-sown privets needs to go so I can move a shrub from one of the pots. My mother gave me some cuttings, including a winter-flowering honeysuckle, and some everlasting sweetpea seeds. I'm going to plant the seeds in old Coke bottles, tucked behind the fence.
I'm probably not going to venture to the garden centre - even though it is outdoors - until next year. So that's when I'll make progress with the rockery.
I'm making steady progress with editing my 70x700 stories. Even 700 words can take quite a bit of editing! And I have an idea for Nano - same format, so 70 stories each of 700 words, but woven into a single narrative using 7 main characters. It would take a LOT of planning - but that's what October is for, right?
Anyway, time to get on with today. See you next week!
I did make some time this week to sort out the bulk of my annual leave. My first two days are coming up at the end of October. At the moment, I have at least one important meeting a week, so it's not going to be possible to get a full week's leave but I've also booked three days in November. Depending when our Christmas break starts this year (I'm expecting to work 20-23 December, although we have been given the twenty-third off before now), I may use up one or two of my spare days then. But I have the first week in Jan (with 3 Jan being a bank holiday, I get a week for the price of 4 leave days!) - and the week before my birthday went in as standard!
My plan for the October leave is to tidy up the garden. All of the shrubs need a good cutting back. And one of the self-sown privets needs to go so I can move a shrub from one of the pots. My mother gave me some cuttings, including a winter-flowering honeysuckle, and some everlasting sweetpea seeds. I'm going to plant the seeds in old Coke bottles, tucked behind the fence.
I'm probably not going to venture to the garden centre - even though it is outdoors - until next year. So that's when I'll make progress with the rockery.
I'm making steady progress with editing my 70x700 stories. Even 700 words can take quite a bit of editing! And I have an idea for Nano - same format, so 70 stories each of 700 words, but woven into a single narrative using 7 main characters. It would take a LOT of planning - but that's what October is for, right?
Anyway, time to get on with today. See you next week!
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Date: 2021-09-27 03:27 pm (UTC)