A spot of sunbathing

 It's lovely in Tonbridge at the minute and Josie is making the most of it.

World book day

 It's world book day today so April made Arthur a Timmy the dog outfit from the Famous Five, and adjusted an adult dress for Flo.  Can't remember who she's supposed to be.  The book's called something about a clockwork something or other.  She does make a real effort with all this stuff.

Back to D&D

 After a month off due to the operation, GM holidays and not wanting to spend £40+ on baby sitting for a one shot in a system I can't be bothered to play, I had my first d&d session in a month on Tuesday.  We're level 18 now so only actually did 2 things.  The first was a bit of investigation which my character is useless at, the second was a fight which takes fucking ages.  

With all the powers and abilities characters have in 5.5 at level 18 you really do need a tablet or phone with a d&d app installed to speed things up.  Unfortunately we have one old school guy that played the original when it first came out and it can sometimes take him minutes going through the rule book each round to work out what spell he can cast.  He's a good chap so I don't bust his balls but it was painful at times.  In other news.  I did a quivering strike on the main bad guy and got a nat 20.  The GM tried to block it by making me have disadvantage, so I rolled again and got another 20! That's 20d12+8 damage.  Oops.  The for my other 4 attacks!  I nearly one shotted him!

This is a 3d printed Tarrasque that our GM's nephew printed for him.  I have a sneaky feeling we may be meeting it soon.  Where did I put that scroll of the comet?

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?