I put a diary entry in to drive round the lights & put up the tree with my niece when I arrive for Christmas. She accepted the lights but the tree was tentative.

She thinks I’m joking when I say if she doesn’t help the ornaments with her name on them go on the back and her brothers on the front.

Finally got around to putting the Christmas decoration out at home.

A small white chicken figurine. The chicken looks like it is sitting down as no legs are visible. It has big googly eyes, and is wearing a red bow tie and a Santa hat.&10;&10;It’s sitting on a tv unit with a white top and wood beneath. Behind it is a black Sonos speaker.

📺 I think it might be time to revisit the adventures of the pie maker and Chuck again.

📬 Regularly refreshing the Australia Post app to check tracking on some parcels. Trying to avoid having to go multiple times to collect things.

✏️ Final trivia of the year with team Wake Up Dead Peter.

🍽️ Lunch plan was cancelled on account of illness (not mine).

New lunch plan was developed and implemented.

It’s been a nice day. Home now to wind down and prepare for a stupidly busy week ahead.

📚 Spent a chunk of time this afternoon sorting out my reading history so I can do a clean import into Hardcover.

Today is Thursday but also work Friday as I’ve been trialling 9 day fortnights and I’m done for this fortnight. It’s proven challenging to not do things on day 10 but I’m getting better at it. I’ll think about it over the christmas break but leaning towards it being a permanent arrangement in 2026.

The British public are clearly wrong and have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to Christmas movies. 🍿

Carefully crafting my email to ensure it doesn’t say “your reports aren’t working because we introduced a time saving process improvement? Cry me a river. Sounds like a you problem not a me problem” but delivers the same message.