Week notes - Sam Hardacre

Week notes

A collection of 26 posts

Week notes #25

I've done 25 of these week notes now so I think it's a good opportunity to reflect. If I'm honest, I'm struggling to keep up with them. Those who've been following along may have noticed I've gone from a fairly regular Sunday/Monday posting schedule to maaaybe by Wednesday (or

Week notes #24

Another week gone by. Well, sort of. I wrote my last week note 5 days ago but let's round up for the fun of it, eh? Well, I guess the first thing to say is our youngest took his first steps this week. He's been crawling since he was about

Week notes #23

These week notes are getting later and later each week! I guess the next one will be slightly shorter, since there's only 5 days left this week. I guess the biggest news of all doesn't directly affect me, but like many others, I've been following the US election results closely

Week notes #22

It's been a while since I last did a weekly update! A few things have happened, not all great so I'd let the updates get pushed to one side for a little while. A few weeks ago, my Aunt passed away after battling cancer for the last year or so,

Week notes #21

Another week and another year older! It was my 35th birthday last week which I kinda forgot about in the last post. I guess I'm at the age now where birthdays aren't really noteworthy events until I start hitting landmark ages. 5 years to the big four-oh, but that'll go

Week notes #20

I think this will be another short and sweet one today as there's not a great deal to report. It's been a week since my aunt passed away and now local lockdown restrictions prevent us from visiting any of our relatives which is a bit shit but I think everyone

Week notes #19

I'm a couple of days late with this one but I'm struggling to find time to slot this in so it's gonna be a short and sweet one today. We've had a rough week. My aunt was diagnosed with cancer last year and while she fought a good fight, sadly

Week notes #17

This last week we've got somewhere closer to Summer weather again which has been quite nice, though as I write this, we're melting slightly in the 26ºC evening muggy weather. The result... Last week, I mentioned we had to take the COVID-19 test, which was pretty unpleasant, but thankfully the

Week notes #16

This last week, our area got put into local lockdown again. Though it's been confusing as chuff since we can't have people visit and sit in the garden, but we can go see the same people in a pub (??). Anywho, that means we're back in lockdown mode. On a weekday,

Week notes #15

Aside from picking up a new car, this week has been fairly uneventful. I've been working while the rest of the family went to parks and things. The new car we picked up is a Toyota C-HR, our first Hybrid car. Our first automatic too. Having never driven an automatic

Week notes #14

Weeks seem to be flying by faster and faster! Here's another quick round-up of things in my life. Wednesday was Lu's birthday so I took the day (and the rest of the week) off work. We didn't get up to much to be honest. We took our eldest to school

Week notes #13

This will be another brief week note entry. Later this week, our eldest finishes school for Summer, concluding his first year. As is often the case with most things these days, Lu and I remark how fast time seems to be flying by. Around time last year, we were buying

Week notes #12

On this here Monday, we continue to have typically British weather. Pissing rain one minute, then sunshine the next so naturally we've all got something to complain about. Last week, I took delivery of two new books. The first being Haru by Joe Latham [https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/

Week notes #11

Ok, so here we go again! I'm going to try stick to updating on the same day each week from now on but I'm not going to stress too much if I'm a day or so out either way. This week at home we've hit a big milestone. Our youngest

Week notes... take two!

Looking back at the most recent posts, I realised week notes was something I kept up for about 10 weeks, then the updates sort of dropped off. Reading back through them, it's been nice to remind myself of what was happening and it shines a light on how much I've

Week notes #10

So I missed a few weeks, don't hassle me... wait, no-one is hassling me. Okay, we're cool. I've slept a lot since the last entry so I'm going to cover the last week or so. Baby H! So the big news of the last few days is we're finally able

Week notes #9

Another week gone by already! The last couple of weeks I've been late or absent with an update so here I am drafting this on a Saturday evening, "will the surprises never end?" I hear you ask... Last week's post [https://blog.nocturnalmonkey.com/week-notes-8/] had a lot covering the

Week notes #8

The other week, I missed an update. This week I'm a day late. It's all unravelling so fast! The horror! It's gonna be a short one this time. There's honestly not much to report, even as a record for my future self to look back on. The biggest news is

Week notes #7

I missed an update last week, I want to send these out on Sundays and I just couldn’t find time last weekend so I figured I wouldn’t beat myself up and just skip a week. Apologies to those who were eagerly awaiting the update last week. It’s

Week notes #6

It’s been a long week of sunshine, sea, shells and eggs. I’ve had a week off and it’s been great so who cares if this post is a day late! It’s gonna be a short one this week. I worked on Monday but then had the

Week notes #5

Compared to previous weeks, it’s been all go these last 7 days. Work is going well. My boss went to the US for the Masters so I worked remotely all week. I managed to bag myself a desk at my old company so it was great to work in

Week notes #4

Sunday again. I'm writing this with a background soundtrack of Hakuna Matatta while the boy watches The Lion King. After a few weeks of ups and downs with work, things are looking a bit more positive... I have a new job! I'll be working for a start-up as a Front-end

Week notes #3

It's Sunday morning once again so it's time to drop another one of these updates. Let me just start with Brexit. What a shit-show the whole thing is. Either put it to the people for another vote or cancel the whole thing. On the work front, I can't really say

Week notes #2

Last week I began by saying it's been a largely uneventful week. I feel like saying the same this week so I guess from now on, unless I start my Week notes saying anything different, my default overview of the past week will be "uneventful". Saying that, Brexit continues to

Week notes #1

This has largely been an uneventful week. I'm still in redundancy limbo at work not knowing for certain whether I'm going to be made redundant or not but kind of already know that's gonna be the case. I don't plan on posting details publicly but over the coming weeks I