Trip to Worthing

 I popped down to Worthing yesterday to see my brother and we popped into a Turkish restaurant sandwiched between a couple of pubs.  It was pretty decent. 

Weekend

 We had a good weekend last week, and going to have another hectic one this week.

Saturday we had lunch round one of Arthur's school buddies house, this was followed by a dinner party round some friends house.

Sunday was rugby training, followed by roast beef with friends round ours.

This weekend, we have a rugby coaches curry on Friday then April is off out in London on Saturday morning  with the ladies rugby team to watch a Harlequins game, followed by a rugby 50th birthday.

Sunday, will be more rugby training, although I might take Flo to Edenbridge for a rugby festival, before heading back to Tonbridge to watch April play her first home game of rugby.

When April first met me, I bet she didn't realise she was going to have her whole life focused on rugby.

Ha!

Not back to work

 So, no return to work note so looks like i'm stuck on sick leave.  I've tried my physio and doctor and they can't do it and i've had no response from my surgeon.  Oh well, I could take holiday, but that's currently booked over Easter so that I have 2 weeks off in one hit and don't want to miss that so going to take the hit.  I've just been told about my bonus for 2025 and it was pretty decent, so not worried about cash.  It was 31% prorated down to around 20% as I only worked 2/3rds of the year.  Pretty decent really, although a good proportion will be taken away as cash so not as good as the headline figure.

Back to work

 Work docked my February pay last month as i'd taken the max sick days out in a year.  I assumed they might but I think they should have told me.  I've now asked to come in next Monday (a week early) but I need a fit for work note from my doctor.  FFS!  I'm tempted to just take the hit, but would lose another £1k+.  If I go back to work, I only have 6 weeks left of the contract as i've got 2 weeks off on holiday over Easter.

Pizza oven is back out

 I brought the pizza own back out of the shed yesterday.  It's been stuck up there all winter.

Lotto win

 I won £140 on the national lottery on Wednesday.  I reckon i'm currently up on 2026 so far, but not by much.

I matched 4 out of the 6 numbers.

5 numbers would have been £1,750

All 6 £8,262,434, but nobody won that so will be back in on Saturday's draw.

April's first game!

 The Clark family is only big enough for one adult playing rugby at a time.  With me being out for the rest of the season, it's April's turn to step up and shine. Well done!  She even downed a pint!  Is there nothing this lady can't do?

Pork belly tacos

Verdict.  They were very good.  Note to self, add honey towards the end of the cook, they would have been amazing!
 

Timmy

 World book day is coming up and Arthur has been reading the famous five.  His favourite character is Timmy so April made him this outfit.

Flo's favourite

 Arthur was on a play date on Friday afternoon so I asked Flo what she wanted for dinner.  Spaghetti carbonara.  Not a bad effort.