Wednesday, 3 September 2025

WOYWW 848/68: Officially Retired

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch.  

This month's ATC theme for the Clarity swap is Travel and the colour pink, so I had some potential stamps out ready to make.  I have also offered to make a card for a former colleague so I need to get that done before popping into school on Friday.  I must admit that I am missing my colleagues.

Thanks for all the retirement well wishes.  I celebrated my first official day of retirement on Monday with a lie in, visiting desks after a hectic weekend, and going over to Mum's for dinner with her, sister, BIL and the friend that I gave a lift to from Kent.


Last page in my 5th Petite watercolour journal.
The start of #6 - I won't quite fill 8 this year.
This was done late in the day after my recorder play day in Lichfield which was very enjoyable.

Wow - September already!
I am getting used to this retirement malarky, although I still wake up early on 'school' days even without an alarm.  I am also hoping that all the samples I made last week and posted on Saturday actually make it to Clarity as there hasn't been an update by Evri since 8am on Monday and they were due by yesterday.  As I paid for next day delivery I was expecting them to be delivered on Monday! 

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW everyone.

3 comments:

BJ said...

Welcome to retirement Sarah, I'm sure you'll get used to it pretty quickly, so much more time to craft after all. Loving your Africa page. As for Pink and Travel there was a pink globe in the flower art exhibition at RHS Wisley yesterday maybe I ought to blog my photos from yesterday too...I woke at 4.30am for no reason today, thought I may as well stay awake to link up but back to bed now...Hugs BJ#1

Helen said...

I am sure t will take a while to adjust to retirement - and I always wake before the alarm when I am off work (so annoying!) Great daily art as ever. Happy WOYWW , Helen x

Neet said...

Even though it is a long long time ago I remember i celebrated my retirement in the same way - a lie in that morning despite being awake as usual. Congrats on the retirement, the body clock will get used to it eventually.
Love the "Africa"drawing/painting you have done.
Hope the parcel arrives ok for you.
Hugs, Neet 2 xx