Project 52 2025 week 6

It’s been a tiring week, I’ve not been sleeping that well. I really need a few days to sleep and catch up. But I’ve been out and about a bit more than normal with a flexi day which is always nice (although didn’t go as planned). Here’s my week 6 for project 52.

Sunday – after a very late night, I was exhausted when I was woken at 7 by a very loud child arriving home. I read for a bit, then did some crochet and blogging, put some more washing on and the dishwasher that I’d forgotten to put on last night before going out. Tried to shake off my headache. I always find Sundays go so fast, it’s lunchtime and then mid afternoon before you know it.

Monday – not much happened, just the trek for school bus pick up a nice 6 mile detour because of the road closure into the village.

Tuesday – the roadworks were still there ‘closing’ the road despite them not having actually done any work there, and it meant to have finished by 9.20 that morning.  We learnt another dance at line dancing. She’s racing through them now which is great. It was a bit quieter as well, so more space in the room.

Wednesday – I did a trial a few months ago with the Dancebit app, then thought I’d cancelled the trial as I always put reminders before the deadline in my calendar. But then received a message from them saying payment had been declined. I checked my bank app and there was a suspected fraud notification. Sigh. Turns out my subscription hadn’t been cancelled, so although it wasn’t fraud at least it hadn’t gone out of my account. I made sure the subscription was properly cancelled on the app.

Thursday – was just about to leave to drop off N to hear a cow that looked like it was about to start calving that the OH had penned up in the barn out the way, had managed to get out. And we had no idea where it had gone. Nightmare. So we drove off to the bus stop checking all the fields as we drove past. 

Had decided to drop N at the normal stop because the bus had come into the village every day, picked up then left the way it came in. Only today it decided to totally miss the village out. So I had a call at 7.40 saying it hadn’t come – the tracker hadn’t been working so we’d had no idea until eventually one of their friends texted to tell them too late. Off I raced to see if I could pick them up and beat the bus to the next village the shorter route. Unfortunately it had already gone through, so I ended up having to take them to school. Luckily I wasn’t due in the office until 9, so I was still on time.  

More fraud nightmares continued as the bank rang, amusingly the number came up as spam. I called the normal customer number and got put through where they told me they’d blocked my card. I went through the whole story, but I hadn’t seen a cancellation email confirmation so had to check for that or get that from the company before ringing to confirm and getting the block lifted. Then for security I had to confirm about 10 other payments. I can’t remember every shop I do so that was fun.

Friday – had a flexi day. I’d planned to do the new Blenheim exhibitions/tours, but it turned out they didn’t start for another week. Decided against National Trust as I’ve done lots round by us and wasn’t feeling very inspired. I’d seen the RSC in Stratford had a free exhibition, so decided to go there. But I’m a morning person and it turned out on arrival that it didn’t open at 10 like the rest of the venue, but at 12.  So that was frustrating. Instead, I did a bit of shopping, stopped for a hot drink and early lunch, then headed home to catch up on the European ice skating from the other week.

Saturday – early start for an hour’s drive to N’s football match. Luckily the snow and sleet was fleeting the night before, but it was so foggy and cold. They’d been beaten by this team the previous week when N wasn’t playing and they were rusty from no matches since November. But this week all played well, and we beat them 2-0. Great play by ours, proper passing football. After watching the opponents, I’m not sure how they’ve been unbeaten so far this season, as they weren’t so great. Many teams get by with 1 or 2 really good players, but they didn’t, so it’s a bit of a mystery how they’ve done so amazingly all season. It made it a long day not getting home til nearly 2.

New posts this week:

• 2 types of crochet heart patterns
• plus lots removed from my old All Things Lists blog that I’m closing down.

Things I’ve enjoyed this week:

• doing some crocheting
• being in the office when it’s so busy
• being back watching them play football matches. People moan about having to do that, but I love it (although it was cold)

Things I’m grateful for:

• N trying out his new purchases on my car, practising using the detailing liquids etc. I’ve no idea what he does, but occasionally he disappears with tub and brushes, and the next time I go in the car, there’s another bit inside shining!
• The road being open again. Halleluia. I don’t think they even did any work there
• Fish and chips takeaway when I really didn’t want to cook (I had battered halloumi with salad)