Hello everyone, hope your all keeping well in our current climate.
I have a ton of updates I would like to share with y'all buuut I don't think they are BI relavant so that's why I've been "lurking".
Anyways as I don't really know what else to say I will leave it there for now xx
Dear bexx87,
Two 'things'.... One 'Hi' back, secondly....Unless it's really 'outlandish', I wouldn't worry about being, A Tad Off Topic.
So please Do 'share' your Musings/ Thoughts, after all, we Are 'all in this together'.
Look forward to hearing from you.
AndrewT
I have broken my long post down in to categories as I know people struggle to read my long posts so hopefully this style helps.
So for those of you that know when I was last on this forum I was taking a break from work and having issues with my manager
The good pt1
I went back to work around October last year and at my 6 month review, my manager was very positive and said that I am now more approachable ect which was nice to hear.
This part I will be talking a 'foreign langue' about work.
Since being back I've been thrusted in to a bunch of training courses to do with office 365 and Azure ran by Microsoft and my manager is encouraging me to do another apprenticeship so when I was talking to the training provider QA, they suggested as I already have some level 3 and a level 4 qualication to progress to a level 5/6 which is daughting but I welcome the challenge.
The good pt 2
On a non work related topic, I started volunteering with independent age doing befriending which has now turned to phone support because I can't visit her and as independent age have given us this advice they have suggested that all volunteers sign up to the NHS responser app and after about 3 weeks of waiting last Friday I was accepted but I have yet to try it out
The bad.
Because the situation with the world right now I am in isolation because I have asthma, lucky my neighbor has allowed me to move in with him to help keep my mental health on par but it means working from home which (going slightly foreign again) isnt hard but it cuts down the tasks I would normally do like hardware replacement stuff so I'm having to guide the skeleton team that are in the office on what I would normally do and they feel the daily pain I experience with couriers and the like (haha) but it is also frustrating because that's the now infrequent part of the job I love more than anything as it's now a dying part of the trade (with everything going to the cloud) I am sorely missing (but my nails are long where they haven't been snapped by pulling hard drives out of servers lol) and the other thing about wfh is there is no separation between work mode and home mode as my environment hasn't changed in a month so that's a minor issue (I say minor as my neighbor has a office so I am able to mentally seperate out the rooms between work and home)
The ugly
So I was really looking forward to going to Dawlish at the end of this month but the park I normally go to was the first park to officially close and for 2 weeks it rocked the still weak part of my mental health as it refused to process the info but now I've slowly come to terms with it but the good thing is that the entertainment team is doing live streams on Facebook to keep the morale of supporters up and a few people on Facebook are doing virtual tours of walking the coast line or seeing the waterfowl (the only waterfowl I'm interested in is those black swannies) and I've been watching the live streams of the sea and the progression that network rail are doing the sea wall which is also keep me slight more sane.
I could add alot more but I think I've made it long enough so I am going to end it on the note that this week I haven't been feeling very well due to a sore throat which for something so small has knocked me side ways.
Sometimes we have to cope with so many big things, and we learn to cope with them as best we can, but it fills up our coping quota, so any little extra thing that occurs is just one thing too many to cope with. I hope you feel better soon.
Thank you 
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