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Thank you balloons
When I was growing up, saying please and thank you was drummed into me. As an adult, I find it REALLY irritating when people don’t remember their manners – I get very grumpy if people don’t say thank you when … Continue reading
Is dancing the answer?
The last few weeks have been…well…tricky. I’ve started my new job which has been a long way from plain sailing, Mum has been poorly and there has been another typhoon in the Philippines. I didn’t realise just how much I … Continue reading
Nurse Pog to the rescue!
When I was little, I wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. This is me meeting my sisters for the first time: (Well, it was a hospital. Obviously I had to wear my nurses uniform.) I did go … Continue reading
Posted in crochet, sewing
Tagged crochet tortoise, fixing, mending crochet, nurse Pog, Sister 1, Sister 2, Tortoise, toy hosital
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Pog Patterns
Do you remember that post where I showed you some of the instructions I’d sent to a friend so she could make her daughter a Pogimal? The instructions were bad. No, actually, they were terrible: So I was amazed when … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life, sewing
Tagged bad drawing, drawing, patterns, Pogimal, sewing, sock animals
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First week of new job discoveries
I’ve got through the first week in my new job, but it’s been…different. I think the fact that I bought my first ever lottery ticket this week probably says quite a lot. There was no ‘getting up to speed’. No, … Continue reading
Posted in work
Tagged discoveries, idiot, lessone learned, new office, Norman, office, work
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Sisters are doin’ it for themselves…just about
On Saturday I went on a car maintenance course. Before I left home ‘Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves’ came on the radio, which seemed rather appropriate. I sang along, feeling quite smug that I only really needed to learn … Continue reading
New job, here I come!
I have a new job! It’s in the same company, but a different part– so different that it might as well be a new company. New office, new team, new part of the business and I now have ‘senior’ in … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life, work
Tagged boss, crochet owls, new job, new team, old office, old team, work
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Beards and suspicions
I posted a picture of Little Pea on the company intranet today, wondering if he was perhaps the littlest Mo Bro out there (It’s Movember, for anyone that means nothing to). The background of the picture is this… A few … Continue reading
Little Pea and me, and some bulbs and jam tarts
On Saturday I had a long overdue Little Pea and Me afternoon. We had plans. And I realised why you should never have too many plans with an 18 month old in tow. In fact, there are a few things that … Continue reading
Posted in cats, Cooking, gardening, Pog Life
Tagged Auntie Pog, Garden center, Little Pea, nephew
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Special communication – from Popes to Pogimals
My job title is ‘Internal Communications Specialist’. I should be a specialist when it comes to communicating. But mostly, I’m just special. I was quite proud this week when I wrote a letter to the Pope (if you want to … Continue reading
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