The End of An Era

 Evening,

It had been a very strange couple of days. 

Who knew when I made the decision to retire, that my last day at work would be the day after our Queen died having given us 70 years of dedicated service.

I have found myself very emotional, for all sorts of reasons. I gave up on trying to look at the newspapers until I was safely on my own as the tears began to flow.

My colleagues sent me off on my retirement with flowers and prezzies,

 including a picture frame created by one of the wives.

There was also a bag filled with bath goodies so that I can learn to relax, and an amazon voucher which will come in very handy, along with a generous gift from my Boss.

I had several cards and presents from customers, including a card with a tenner inside from our Biffa man along with a message to 'Have a Drink on Him'.

My last act as a BP employee was to help one of our regular disabled customers. 

I always take her shopping to the car for her, or get one of the boys to do it if I can't get off the till. But when I saw her enter the shop ten minutes before my shift ended I went over to her and told her of my intension to be her 'Personal Shopper'. We then waited in the queue along with several other regulars who all congratulated me on my retirement.

All in all a wonderful end to 20 years of service.

Not a patch on her Majesty I know, but I tried to do my bit.

I am now looking forward to the next phase in my life. I am going to move in with my Mum to give her some extra support. At 92 I think that she deserves a little looking after. It's my turn to return the care that she has lavished on me over the years.

I am also looking forward to being able to craft without the need to watch the clock and get a reasonably early night.

I have deleted all the stupid 2, 3 and 4 o'clock alarms on my phone, although my first week day of retirement will need an early wakeup call since I have a 8.45am dental appointment!!

We had a nice relaxing crafty class today, where I was greeted with Happy Retirement balloons and even special celebratory toilet paper.

Thanks for stopping by

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx 

A Job Well Done

Evening Everyone,
Well I have certainly managed to achieve something from my enforced rest, apart from a rather numb bum that is!! I have managed to sort out all of my LOTV Simply Print images.

I'm not quite sure just how long it would have taken me to do otherwise, probably till my very own retirement, but at least that is one rather major thing that I can tick off my 2020 To Do List.
It will certainly make card making easier when I can flick through a pile of pictures to find the image I require, rather than trying to guess what image a particular title will reveal.

And of course it will also make it easier to see just what images I need next time they have a mega sale :O)

Unfortunately the weather today would not allow this type of relaxation, but never mind that would probably have been too hot for me lol.

Now another thing that I would like to sort out are all of my dies, but as that would require me to stand up for rather a long time that will have to wait for much later in the year because that is definitely not something that I could manage at the moment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Crafting and hugs

Kimx