Scattered Strawberry Summer

My second week in my new job is finished (hail flexi time). I've been rather busy, a bit stressed,  very happy about the new role sitll.

I'm getting used to this role but I think it will take longer for other to get used to the fact I am now their line manager.

Next few weeks won't be any less busy. I will spend some time in London again, I will attend leadership training , which I am very looking forward  to, not only because I will be staying in a nice hotel in Covent Garden... I'm also going to middle management conference in Preston, not very exiting location but hey...business trip

I don't have any plans for my long weekend, I like it that way. Just do whatever I feel like doing without a care in a world.

It is hard to believe tomorrow is October already, time flies fast when you're an adult. It's been very mild, we haven't had heating on yet.  Christmas stock has already hit the shops, I can't bear to go past it, it's September, I wish they'd wait till December, Christmas would be more special. On more positive note, new series of various are coming out, which is brilliant. Well there is only one show I'm really waiting for, Sherlock obviously. Hopefully, new series will come out before new year... It's been two years!Two years too long.

On unrelated note, I've got an award, an equivalent to employee of the month, for doing all those photos. I'm quite a happy about it, I've got a certificate and love2shop voucher, not too bad. Not too shabby for Rachel.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I went to the Netherlands for the first time. My mother suggested to go somewhere, she said we could go to any of the neighbouring countries: Luxembourg, Belgium, France or Netherlands. I chose the Netherlands as it's closest and I have never been there before. I then had a task to select a town or city to go, so I just looked at the map and googled towns close to boarder. Most interesting seemed to be Roermond, so that's where we went to.


It's a small but such charming town, town centre's been designated as conservation area and for a good reason, it's beautiful! Lots of cafes and shops and we didn't know, but you can get there designer clothes cheaper than usual.





    There was a band in another square, cafes were full of people enjoying live music.It really created a very nice atmosphere.
  In another square there was a flea market.

I'm back on the British land!

It was  fun but short week in Germany but I enjoyed it thoroughly. I was there last April.

I had so much  Lithuanian food cooked by my parents, many dishes I never make. My parents have a lovely rather spacious garden, so we had most of our meals  and tea there. It's fantastic feeling to have breakfast  in the garden  with warm morning sun on your face.  Now I want to have a garden even more.

The weather was rather decent, we went to two different swimming pools. First one we went to was outside pool  15 minutes bus ride away. That is if you manage to get off the right stop. We didn't, we had two walk a bit but it was fine. It was a  weekday and the pool was practically empty, it was nice but it got cloudy and all the things there more for children and we got bored soon. Next day was very hot..so we went to a different swimming pool, the slide was higher, much more fun! I was knackered, my little cousins-not so much.


My parents have done many changes in the garden, they have grown so many vegetables, mostly tomatoes and cucumbers







My auntie showed up with two cousins and one of them, Julia, stayed over night. She's such a lovely girl but wow she's got so much energy.


   We found a ladybird in the garden. Not sure if she's doing fig on purpose or not, but knowing her, I think  she did.

We went to Dusseldorf as my SO hasn't been there before. We did a bit of shopping ( I got lovely pair of shoes) and went for a walk by Rhine (Rhein).





We also went to Netherlands, it's just an hour's drive. But about that in the next post...

Just one day to go and I'm off! When I'm back, I have quite a few things to do, I will go to London a couple times for meetings and training, I was asked to take pictures again, possibly all day, not sure, haven't been given much information on it.Also, I was put forward by my manager to get involved in a project which might be quite interesting, not sure yet what exactly it entails. Lots of things happening at work, changes ahead, some positive, some less so, we'll just wait and see how it will affect us.

     Bonus: totally irrelevant funny picture:

Yes, that's how my typical weeks feels like. It's been quite tough past few weeks at work, a few people are off, our workload has increased massively. On positive side... Only three days till I'm off for 10 days!!.  I will go to Germany to visit my family, this time I will take my SO with me. I hope for a good weather so I am able to relax in my parents' garden or in the park nearby.

If I am going to Germany this often, maybe I should learn German. Or maybe I'll just wait till my little cousins' English improve.

Until my next post, my chums

Yesterday I went to London for a regional meeting I was.dressed up as an elf. It was quite fun, and us three won a prize for the best outfits yay.

As we finished early, I decided to go to Oxford street hoping to find some Christmas presents. I found exactly what my mother wanted, browsed some shops not looking for anything in particular, tried to find my friends who works in one of the shops, but by the time I found which one it was too late but we're planning to meet during the holidays as I will have many days off.