Leaving work

Last week I finally left work. You may remember back in the dim and distant past of April that I acquired a new job. Unfortunately I also had the longest notice period in the universe so have only now finished the old job, ready to move onto the new one with a 10 day gap inbetween.

I had a leaving afternoon tea at work - tea, miniature sandwiches and lots of little tiny cakes and scones. Although I'm not sad to be leaving as it turned out to be a disappointing place to work and the new place has a lot more to offer, I will miss some of the people I met there, and many of them turned out to say goodbye. And gave me a rather cool sheep card:

A gardening book that's very "me" and definitely my style of gardening.

And a large pile of garden gift vouchers. After I'd finished  at work I had some friends to stay the next day, and Mum came for a few days, so we promptly disappeared off to the garden centre to spend some vouchers!

This is the first lot of plants (still got half the vouchers to spend!).

This week is a bit calmer, so I'll be planting these, and also keeping an eye on the builder who'll be installing our new downstairs loo. I have several things planned, including some knitting, some paperwork (boring, but has to be done), getting the boiler serviced, looking after the church office one morning, a planning meeting, reading group and meeting various friends for coffee!

And I've borrowed a slow cooker to experiment with as I've never used one before. I have a slow cooker recipe book reserved from the library too!