When Enough is Enough!

Being quite fastidious in my approach to things, I can often find it hard to recognise when it’s time to stop flogging a dead horse!

At 10pm, I realised I was in grave danger of poking out both my eyes with a highlighter if I didn’t just call it a day & close this bloody laptop down.

I don’t mean to martyr myself here- I have had breaks.

I went to Booths & bumped into (not literally) an ex colleague who I always had a pretty good rapport with & it was nice to have a catch up & a laugh with her.

I also drove to an outlying village to drop flowers & a card off to a lovely friend for her birthday. It was too wet to sit in her garden so we sat at opposite ends of her dining room (which opens out, onto her garden) & we had a great chat & a good laugh as she helped me to put a few things into perspective.

Largely though, I have worked. The A level tutorials this morning went well- although each google meet has to be recorded (safeguarding) & this is then sent back to my e mail. I think I managed to watch approximately 40 seconds of it before I realised that when I’m thinking & talking at the same time, I actually go quite bog-eyed! I’ve come this far in a career based largely around talking to people & this minor detail, I never knew!

The problem, is that now my kitchen has become not just a kitchen but my classroom & office also, I could be in danger of finding myself constantly at work. Although, I’m not so sure whether this is just the nature of my work anyway & it’s hard to look back at the days of yore & remember what life was like, pre- lockdown.

Anyway, I would serve myself well to recognise when enough is enough- not just in work but in all aspects of life.

For starters, eating that 2nd bowl of Frosted Shreddies was probably quite unnecessary!