24 Hours with helloitsgemma

Gallery time again and this week the theme is 24 hours. Had we not been ill at the weekend this would have been a very different post. Instead it’s 24 hours at work with me.  
Drink tea from an Arsenal mug and no one borrows it, it’s always where I left it, drink herbal tea and never have to wonder who used the last of the milk. Someone in the team made this cake, I try not to have favourites but when one bring cakes and one brings me lunch and one hides the biscuits, it’s difficult…….This is the gas ‘canister’. We  see it from the office, we wonder when it goes up and when it goes down and why we never see it move, and how does it move? Who moves it? What’s it proper name?

I really love the area I work in. It’s one of the poorest 2% in the country. This is where I buy my sweeties.

I think it rocks of because  it genuinely has community from the old men debating politics on the green, to local shops run by local people to ‘free community meals’.

We support vulnerable people in this area and neighbouring areas.  These are seats the representatives from the funding body sat in, when they came today to discuss the closure of 3 of our projects. Projects like ours make a practical difference.  This is the Comprehensive Spending Review in practice. Libraries matter, of course they do.  Pot holes matter and bin collections matter.  Vulnerable people matter and generally they have little or no voice, I see them facing the biggest cuts; poverty effects children and life expectancy and opportunity.  Tackling it matters.

I have a family and I try to leave work, at work. This is my evenings, the laptop.

This is my boy who is poorly today, and stayed at home. 

At the moment he really loves jigsaws, does them for hours, over and over.

This is the OH’s thing, the saxophone, this is big part of our home life. This  is 24 with Helloitsgemma, welcome to my world.  Now pop over to the gallery at the fabulous Sticky Fingers and check out everyone elses.

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