Well daughter and her boyfriend got home at 1.45 am as their plane was delayed half an hour and they took ages getting people off. OH wouldn't pay the parking fees to wait so went for a drive, and I sent a text when they landed. He went straight off to bed as he is going to work tomorrow at 6 am! Don't really know why on a Sunday but they have had a lot of staff problems there recently. There are only 2 working atm and a new apprentice, as one chap is off for 3 months looking after his sick father and another has a hand injury so has not been in for a few weeks. He's sacked 2 people in the last few months - one for stealing and one for being totally incapable of doing the job (which he pretended to be very experienced at when interviewed.) Oh, and the last apprentice was sacked too as he had no intention of working and was a health and safety hazard leaving tools and materials everywhere. The final straw was when H & S inspectors turned up on site and found him with no hard hat or high viz vest on despite being told repeatedly to wear it!! Some people are really unbelievable and think they can do what they like at work - unfortunately this is not the case. Now I suppose writing this you may think that it's a hard place to work and my OH is very stern but this could not be further from the truth. He is extremely laid back and accommodating if anyone needs time off, and its all flexi time anyway. Unless there is a rush job on the workers of his building and maintenance team can manage their own hours and workload. You would have to be pretty awful to get the sack from this workplace but he did draw the line when one worker was on CCTV fiddling the time sheet, stealing tools and equipment, and even turning off one of the CCTV cameras while he did it! He even admitted it and gave back some of the tools (but not all) and the company lost thousands of pounds but did not prosecute him. I would have but then perhaps I am not so forgiving.
Seems familiar somehow!
Today I was woken by the toddler crying at 6 am again but daughter sorted it out so I managed to get another couple of hours sleep. She got her up at 7 am today. I didn't manage to do much today as DIL, son and grandchildren turned up to visit. Toddler is very close to her cousin (4) and they played together nicely with the toy kitchen. Grandson joined in with it in between playing on his tablet. DIL has to go back to the hospital next week to see if the 2 breaks in her hand are healing otherwise they may need to operate on it. She is still going to work - fair play to her - catching a train as she can't drive. She was having a race with her son (7) carrying her daughter (4) and tripped over on her driveway. My 4 year old granddaughter was OK but DIL landed on her face and hand, so her face is grazed too.
After they left daughter started to feel unwell and have a bad stomach. She says her boyfriend had the same yesterday on her holiday, so it could be something they ate abroad, or a germ they have picked up. Toddler went to bed as usual - showed off a lot today and was messing about with her mum, which is normal as she hasn't seen her for a few days. My nephew popped in for a chat to OH this evening as he is fitting patio doors and was looking at ours and how they are fitted. Should call round and see them really; they have a baby now and I haven't visited them all in ages.
I am feeling much better today for getting some sleep. My sleep pattern is not the 'norm' as I usually go to bed around 1.30 am or later and get up around 9.30 - 10.30. This is still only 8 hours sleep. I have been like this since working as a social worker in the young people's units where you have to be really alert late at night. It was not unusual to be up until 3 or 4 am giving statements to police or trying to settle disturbed young people with lots of problems. When I have had an early start job e.g. childminding then I have slept, when the children went home, for a couple of hours and still gone to bed much later. I have tried to go to bed at a 'normal' time but just lay awake until 1.30 or later which disturbs OH. At present I am trying to go upstairs at 1.30 am at the latest. I am finding it helps me sleep if I read the news or something else on my phone, which doesn't disturb him.
Must go shopping tomorrow as we have run out of most things now and I have only one dishwasher tablet left which, in itself, is a disaster waiting to happen lolol.
Bye for now All the best.
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