Despite *gestures* everything, there are still nice things sometimes!
- Miss H just got made redundant, but on Friday she heard that she'd successfully interviewed for another job at her institution, so the cat's Dreamies are no longer in peril.
- Another friend just got promoted! Exciting new job title.
- I have some annual leave this week, and it's going to be amazing.
- Pictures!
This one's from quite a while ago, but I came across it while I was uploading the others. I did know that flowers could break through pavement, but it's still pretty impressive to see! Tiny little leaves tearing up the tarmac.
Between Reform somehow, horrifyingly, topping the polls, and my city being smothered in Union Jack flags put up by people who definitely don't have any racist motivations of any kind and who are only purely coincidentally buddies with Tommy Robinson, it's nice to see something I can agree with for once.
This was on my parents' road - one of the trees in the allotments was dropping these absolutely colossal leaves all along the pavement. I thought they looked acer-ish, so presumably sycamore, but I've never seen one a quarter of this size before. I told my swimming buddy who volunteers for a tree charity about it, and she suggested it might be a London plane (after saying "I know you said the leaves were absolutely enormous, but I wasn't expecting them to be that big"), which seems plausible on a quick internet search. Just so comically gigantic though.
Not so nice: now I have to go to a double choir rehearsal where a) the conductor has already made it clear that he's not going to follow the precedent of our newly-retired chorus director and finish the second rehearsal early because everyone is tired by then, not that anyone thought for a second that he would, and b) they've cut the break between the two rehearsals down to thirty minutes, which I am not convinced is long enough when we have two and a half hours of rehearsal each side of it...
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