A car turning into the road I was trying to pull out of flashed me out. Traffic is generally unhurried here and it's usual for cars to wave pedestrians across. Letting people out helps me feel like a good person and makes me smile.
Also team mate went into the lab (I wasn't dressed appropriately) and found me a calculator of the model I required. He's been down & done me small favours regarding the lab before too.
I've a friend who doesn't have a lot of cash and uses the large gas bottles which are about 100 euros a pop. She ran out just before Christmas. Isn't that always the way?
She still owed the gas man for the previous bottle, but he came round to drop in another. When he arrived, he swore blind she didn't owe him for the previous one, so effectively gave her a bottle of gas. This is the second time the same man has 'forgotten' her debt to him, so pretty sure this is his way of helping her out without embarrassing her.
A friend kindly sent me a link to a site called gratefulness.org. I didn't enjoy the site particularly but they've a section of blank inside e-cards which enabled me to send a few last minute Christmas cards to people I'd run out of 'real' cards for.
But they're not just for Christmas, there are all sorts of designs. So I'll make it a new year plan to send a few regularly. Everyone likes a card.
Since I've been keeping my diary by my desk for use as a daybook, I've started jotting in my student's important dates - an exam date maybe, a birthday, or someone having some medical tests. They start the top of the day's to do list, and writing a quick message takes just a few moments.
I've been really pleasantly surprised how touched people have been that I've remembered their stories.
Do love our NHS when you actually start to be looked after - during routine MRI scan the radiologist said he appreciated and liked my fluorescent green kiwi socks - how kind of him !!
I work as an online English teacher, and one of my students is preparing for a fairly high level job interview in English. Part of it is to write a report which he'll need to present and he's under a lot of time pressure.
I spent an hour this afternoon proofreading and correcting his report, off the clock as a favour, so that I could get it back to him in time for him to review before we start working on his presentation in tomorrow's class.
To be honest I wasn't expecting it to take me so long, but it was completely impenetrable text about accounting standards and I had to read it about 10 times just to understand it!
I'm not a big sender of Christmas cards. In fact I rarely bother now that my most elderly relatives are no longer with us.
But a friend has recently found herself jobless so I've done a tally up and ordered some of her homemade cards for Christmas and some for new year birthdays as well.
Now I've ordered them I'm excited to receive so I can get them in the post!
