Out to the parents in law

 

Family Updates

Well I finally got around to telling my parents-in-law.  I did it by email, I really didn't want to do it on the phone, as I figured it would not go well.

I got to the point fairly quickly, and then onto how it impacted my wife and the kids, and that they were largely OK with it.

My wife ended up on the phone to them shortly afterwards, and they have actually seemed to take it a lot better than I had thought.

I did say it would perhaps be a bit too much to go on the week long family holiday planned for later in the year - there would be 3 families and the grandparents (my in laws) under one roof, with a number of kids.

If we had separate accommodation where I could retreat I might have considered it.

I had a short but nice message back from my mother in law, not had any contact with my father in law, but my wife said he seemed very unphased or bothered by it !

My brother popped over to see me this Wednesday, and show me his newly painted car. It was the 1st time he or his girlfriend had seen me in person dressed.  It went well, as if nothing had changed, which was really nice. 

Also got to go for a bit of a drive in his car, which is quite a bit faster than mine !

Work

Everything seems OK, my teams has eventually updated for everyone. I've had plenty of calls with people, and they have all treated me normally.

I went into the office twice last week, there were only a few of us in, but it went fine.  I was in a Joe Browns dress the 1st day, then a long utility dress on the Tuesday. 

I got some questions about what operations I might have from a long time colleague, which i had sort of been expecting. Had it been someone I barely knew it would have been less appropriate, but it's must be 6 years we've worked together at least.

Had a nice call from my boss while I was in the office too, he wanted to be sure I had no plans to leave, as I was a key employee - which is always nice to hear.

I am back in the office tommorow, might do jeans and a top this time perhaps. I am not 100% sure that floral dresses meet with the dress code - but I guess I am highly unlikely to be told off for fear of upsetting me :)

Social Events

I did Stockport beer festival on the 21st.  I popped into the bank when I arrived in the morning so I
could get my name changed on my account.   Did a bit of shopping , and a had a beer in a nice tap house before checking into the hotel.

I was joining a couple of friends, and had to wait while one of them glammed up, but did eventually get to the beer festival in the late afternoon. 

It is a nice little festival, we stayed until after 10pm, there was food on, I had a chilli, and got some cheese and crackers too.  I was dressed fairly sensibly compared to one my friends, she gets a lot of attention with her LED dress and handbag.

I was at Chameleons this Thursday, I had driven down in the Morris because I was heading to the owners club national meeting the day after.  I had failed to read the forum again, so was surprised that the car park was shut.

It was not big deal though, I just parked at my hotel and got an Uber in - I didn't want to leave my fully packed car on the street.

Considering the issues with the parking there was a really good turnout, I initially thought it might be fairly quiet - nice to see so many make the effort.  Ann gave me a white chocolate Biscoff KitKat to try - it was quite nice :)

Ann gave me a lift back to the hotel, and she got changed there - it seems there was a prom on at the hotel, so it was difficult to get into the car park. There were lots of young ladies in very nice ball gowns, I was most jealous !

I will blog about the Morris Minor national separately.