I nearly sprayed my coffee when I opened this picture. It’s baby Hugo for sure.

I’m wondering what chaos the kittens are causing while I’m at work. First late for me, so just having my dinner break. Then back to the tills till 10pm! Wish me luck!

The next few weeks are going to be busy as I’ve got lots of shifts at Tesco’s and other work on. So I decided to have a rest day. I flitted between ‘must rest’ and ‘must do’. Thankfully must rest won!

Pottered about, chilled out with the boys and popped Buddy over a few jumps.

Now watching Kung Fu Panda, fire lit and chicken casserole in the over.

Looking through some videos on my phone and came across this gem. Pretty sure my brain took a holiday at this point. 🤪

Makes me laugh everytime. Buddy is a saint for carrying on and jumping the next jump.

It’s starting to look a lot more Christmassy Chez Pip. Spent this morning putting my tree up and got my wreath from the super talented Helen Evans.

So far Hugo and Dodo are as nonplussed with Christmas as Nero and I are. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

It’s up! Let’s see how long this lasts with Chaos and Carnage (aka Hugo and Dodo).

So far they’ve been under it, tried to eat it and played with a few baubles.

Starting to feel a little more Christmassy now. The power of tinsel!!

I got my uniform yesterday, so today was the first time I got to wear it. Got my name badge too. Yes I choose a horse.

For the first time in what felt like forever, I was woken up by my alarm rather than the first train. It’s blissful. I’m back to hardly noticing the trains going past. Looking forward to many, many good sleeps.

Today the whistle boards came down. It’s finally happened! I can’t quite believe it. After so many months of intrusion, it’s wonderful to barely notice the trains going past again.

Got home to find this on my doorstep from one of my neighbours to say thank you. How lovely is that?!

Today Buddy and I put on our dancing shoes for a dressage lesson. Buddy can be a bit more ValegNO than Valegro. And I’m not exactly Charlotte Dujardin.

It’s been a while since we had a lesson and this was with a new instructor. I was feeling a little intimidated to start off with. She spotted that I don’t believe in my abilities in dressage. She said I’m better than I think I am.

I find dressage every intimidating. Give me a big fence any day.

She gave me lots of brilliant tips and by the end of the lesson, we were close to dancing. I felt like we were totally together.

Today I got to do something new. I got to rumble. That’s the technical term for tidying up an aisle, taking away any empty boxes and making sure the stock is pulled to the front of the shelves.

I did my longest shift so far – 9.15 hours. It flew by as I was busy the whole time.

Got home to find Dodo had dug up one of my plants. Hugo wasn’t totally innocent as I found one of my gloves under the coffee table. Makes you wonder what they’ve been doing while I was at work…

You’ve heard of the film Gorillas in the Mist, well today it was Buddy in the Murky Mist! We missed the sunshine and got freezing fog instead.

It was beyond cold! By the time we got back, I couldn’t feel my hands or feet. Need to do some research on good thermal gloves and socks. Any suggestions?!

I’m still cold now!! 🥶