Foxxing Chargers !!!

Thursday night was Nottingham Chameleons night -  I was hoping to sneak off work early to get ready, but I had some important things to fix before I signed off for the week so wasn't able to in the end.

Had a shower and shave, and did some basic makeup. I had a Vinted delivery in the morning which I was excited to wear out - another jumper dress, but with blue on it, which I though would go well with my blue suede boots

Got there fairly early in the end, and then had the fun of attempting to get the charging app to allow me to start a charge. I failed for 5 minutes, then thought I would just plug the car in, then continue from the comfort of the meeting room in the community centre.

I did eventually get it to start charging....

The meeting itself was a bit different, as there was a guy in from Nottingham NHS's Sexual Health Services. So he had the floor for the first hour. It was mainly a fact finding mission for him to get ideas on how to make their services more accessible. 

He seemed to be getting a lot of good things from the members, but he wasn't writing anything down, and seemed to want us to email him with everything discussed. But he was nice enough, and seems likely we will see him again.

Once he had left it was tea and chatting, and fairy cakes to celebrate Val's birthday, which were very nice indeed. I made a point of going to chat to a younger looking new girl who seemed quite nervous. I'm not so good at that sort of thing, but did chat for a while, we didn't seem to have much in common, but she seemed to appreciate it. I hope to get better by practising :)

Also managed to chat to another newbie who had arrived later, but it was just as everyone was getting ready to leave. It was her first trip out of the house I believe, Sophie. She had gone to a lot of effort with her makeup, I think contributing to her arriving late. She seemed really nice. 

Wandered back to the car, and attempted to unplug from the charger. But it seems it really really really loved my cable and didn't want to give it back. So after lots of messing, I had to leave it there. Fortunately was able to unplug from the car, so wasn't trapped there.

I managed to get through to someone at the church this morning, and they say it happens about 25% of the time and is possibly because I didn't stop the charge on the app before attempting to unplug, and they are getting some instructions drawn up. Getting a friend to collect from them tomorrow, which was very kind of them to offer. 

I have an even slower 13amp plug charger I can use in the meantime, so not a massive issue, but it's worth about £100 so I need my normal cable back.

I don't think I will be using that one again......

Work this week has been OK, I had to go to Burton on Wednesday just to show my face, as we are all expected to do office days occasionally. It would be fantastic if the days where it's good for me to be there coincided with Chams, but this has only happened once so far.

There is a pub meetup in Ripley on the 1st Wednesday of the month, I may also see if I can do an office day for that, then get changed to attend that one. I've done it once before, it wasn't a bad meet. 

Other things this week - a lovely lady had found this blog on the Chams site, and has been reading through, and we have had a few nice emails back and forth. I may have a pen pal !

Don't think she is at the point of coming to a meeting yet, but maybe I will get to see her one day too.

Great to know that other people are reading this though, and getting something from it, I really only have the presence of a comment to know for sure that anyone has read it, so I was most pleased to find others had, and enjoyed.