At the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning for ‘pre-operative clerking’, examination and ECG prior to my surgery next week.
I’ve completed all the wedding albums and orders and they were all collected yesterday, my accounts have been completed up to the end of November so everything is currently up to date and ready for the next VAT return.
We had lunch at John & Ida’s in Pontypridd today, unfortunately they ran out of their excellent home made rice pudding but their home made trifle with massive strawberries was delicious.
I called over to my Mum’s later this afternoon and cut and mitred the replacement piece of skirting board.
A quiet evening but it’s back to making up albums again tomorrow and next week I’ll also be busy with month end accounts and preparing the next VAT return.
I received my admissions letter from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, I’m going in for further tests next week with surgery scheduled for the following week. 🙁
I spent a lot of time today making up wedding albums, hoping to finish everything tomorrow.
I called over to see my Mum this afternoon, she had the new hall, stairs and landing carpet fitted today and it looks very nice. I also bought some new skirting board for her living room to fit in the gap where the fireplace used to be, just need to cut mitres in the new board and fit it in place.
I took my Mum to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, she was convinced that she’d be there for a few hours so insisted that I didn’t wait and she’d phone when she needed a lift home. Three quarters of an hour later she rang to say she was ready. 🙂
I received another delivery from Jorgensen today so it will be all systems go over the next few days to complete the remaining album orders. More fun with the 3M repositionable pressure mounting film. 🙁
I had intended going to my Welsh class this morning, I’ve missed a number of weeks following my recent surgery, unfortunately Julie rang this morning to say that she’s unable to run the class today as she’s not feeling very well. 🙁
I spent the morning applying 3M repositionable pressure mount to a large number of photographs ready to mount them in the albums I’m currently working on. Perhaps one day someone will devise a mounting product that is easy to use, so far this time I’ve avoided cutting my fingers with the scalpel. 🙂
Jason called in this evening to collect the print order from his and Jennie’s wedding. Their Jorgensen wedding album is being delivered this week so their album should be ready at the end of the week. With a bit of luck I should have completed all the current album orders this week.
Monday is generally the day when I perform the various computer housekeeping tasks on the systems we run here. The routine consists of mainly running various utilities to remove annoying tracking cookies, checking that nothing malicious has managed to get through the various firewalls and archiving old data to DVD or external storage.
I also spent a little bit of time looking at some actions and templates for Photoshop for creating composite album pages, I usually use custom album design software but thought it would be interesting just to try the more manual method of doing it natively within Photoshop.
Here is a little test design I generated. Not sure if I’d use this particular design in a real album but it was fun creating the layout.
We went to John & Ida’s in Pontypridd for lunch, the staff are terrific as is the Sunday lunch and the home made rice pudding is superb. We called into Tesco at Upper Boat on the way home to stock up on food.
We spent most of the evening chatting with family and friends on Messenger, it’s just so easy these days to keep in touch with people and it’s really great to be able to have a video conversation, much nicer than just typing at the keyboard.
I had a haircut this morning, something I needed before I went into hospital a few weeks ago!
I drove my Mum to Caerphilly where she ordered some new carpet for her hall, stairs and landing – it’s being fitted next week. We called into Tesco at Upper Boat on the way back for her to do some shopping.
I had an email from Tom Gwillim this afternoon, he and Filiz are now the proud parents of a baby boy, born yesterday – great news!
Llantrisant for some shopping and a coffee at Starbucks.
I had an album delivery today so have another album to make up over the next few days.
I installed the new version of TDA – the design software from Albums Australia, this afternoon, it has a number of enhancements which look very interesting.