Really heavy rain means that the river at the end of my sister's garden is slowly creeping closer to her house. She posted a photo on Facebook and among the 'Wows' it elicited, there was also a very genuine offer to house her and her family if the water started to threaten the house.
I joked with her that the man concerned had obviously never met her family :)
In truth though it's an incredibly kind offer, particularly as they're in lockdown there just now.
Time to run up to the office on a frosty morning, and the coffee pot hadn't finished burbling.
Half way up the hill I hear a yelling behind me. Has the world ended? No, it's my lovely boyfriend chasing me with a flask.
We had a delivery of animal feed due today and weren't expecting it until late afternoon. The guys arrived early, while we were out. Could have been a disaster.
When we got home, we discovered that they'd left it stacked nicely in one of our trucks, with the bill placed neatly on top to pay another time.
I started a new Portuguese course last night and it was awful. And to make life even harder, my net connection was rotten and the teacher's slides weren't working for me.
The teacher did nothing to help, but a friend who was also on the course (the one I prodded in the right direction) very sweetly took a photo of each slide as it came up and sent it to me via FB messenger so I could follow along.
On Friday I went to my in person Portuguese course. The teacher is a teacher at the school, so afterwards I asked her for some advice regarding my son's next stage education. She was really helpful and made everything much clearer.
Today I sent her a quick email to thank her very much for her time and patience.
There's a new Portuguese course starting soon that I got wind of and registered myself for. Flagged it to a friend and passed on the relevant paperwork to get her registered too.
Read a friend's application for her, not really a kindness, more a reciprocal favour.
Stopped on my way out of the street to ask a neighbour if he knew whose mail I had, before I chuck it back into the post box.
Gave a workmate some of the things from the hamper that we won't use.
Posted a daily draw in a friend's Facebook group where she's been the only person to post so far.
A friend shared a printable she likes. I've printed one for me & she's accepted my offer to print & post it to her. & now I just need to find the envelope & stamps...
Volunteering is a kindness, & it's heart warming to see how many volunteers there are gifting their time to strangers.
Lots of my friends are generous & full of doing favours for people.
