@keyfeathers.bsky.social Happy thingy!

Hurrah! _Finally_ gotten the new contract from my company for my working in the UK (starting in the new year). Took ages to extract it from our HR folks. Highlights: * 7% increase in gross pay & max.bonus * 1 extra day PTO overall * Stat. Holidays not taken out of PTO 1/

It’s incredibly hard for corvids to do No Nuts November.

It’s incredibly hard for corvids to do No Nuts November.

My best pal @kootenay.corvid.ing went to the UK and all I got was a loaf of bread. ;)

In other news, I’m really surprised by how much of my feed here is just reposts. That’s from people I follow, not from me. (I don’t think I do that many reposts)

Huh. Look what I found when I was back in the UK. The con book I got from ConFurence 6 - the first furry con I ever went to.

Today has not been a successful day. 1. Issue with body shop not having properly fixed paint damage on car (see previous post) 2. COVID vaccination was cancelled due to pharmacy running out of doses (got my flu jab though) 3. Had to cancel tire switchover due to issue 1.

Well, bum At the car body shop to pick up my car from getting the garage ceiling leak damage fixed, only to find that it’s not done - only thing done was some body damage fixed. So they’re giving me a free rental car until that’s done. Hopefully by today or tomorrow. :P

Mini-Koot perches on “his” bag on the way to downtown.

Now Mini-Koot wants his bag! What a demanding little bird. I bet he makes me carry it, too.

Down safe in Toronto, and Mini-Koot wants off the plane!

🛫AC857 LHR-YYZ

Mini-Koot is ready to board the flight home.

Airside at LHR T2 for the “last time to get Home”

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Bit of a weird feeling right now. In less than 24 hours, I’ll be in my way to Heathrow airpot to fly Home to Canada for the last time.

XD

Wow. November, and the Christmas adverts have started with a vengeance here in the UK. I’m not even sure that Maria Carey has defrosted yet.

Well, bad luck, Blue Jays. You had a good run, and I was about ready to stop mocking all blue jays for a year. ;)

Oh, forgot to post this one. When I was out in Reading on Wednesday, saw a monolith with a birb ad.

Mini-Koot’s adventures today too him here.

“Duck World”? Mini-Koot wonders why nowhere has a “Steller’s Jay World”

“Duck World”? Mini-Koot wonders why nowhere has a “Steller’s Jay World”

Mini-Koot is out travelling again today.

Meanwhile, who might I see at the LondonFurs thing tomorrow that I know ?

C’mon, Dodgers! Don’t make me have to do That Thing for a year! ;>

Getting very worried about the state of the sportsball series now.

Two more ticks ✔️

Reading station. Not a new “tick” as I’ve been here before. But Mini-Koot hasn’t - tick for him!

One more station tick. Had to postpone my plans to get three more due to another service being cancelled (no train crew) :P

Another station checked off. This one is very close by to my parents’ place, but in all the time I lived there I never travelled to/from this station. Also, very narrow platforms.

Dang it… sportsball series is tied 2-2 I’m getting worried here.

Waking up this morning to see that sportsball score.

@anyare.art Happy thingy!!

Pssst… go dodgers ;>

Waking up this morning and seeing a sportsball score:

They got their goodies tray refilled with peanuts and walnuts and corn and sunflower seeds, a good day for Steller’s jays indeed

And another ✔️

Taking advantage of some extra time before an appointment to tick off another couple of UK stations I’ve never visited.

@chipuni.bsky.social Happy thingy!

So I’m a bit out of the loop with N American sportsball stuff as I’m in the UK right now. Have the Blue Jays epically collapsed out of the playoffs yet? ;> Remember: they win it all and I stop mocking all blue jays until they lose the title. They lose, and the mockery continues.

So… “fun” thing I need to do while I’m here in the UK: Renew my UK passport with urgency. Apparently it expired 2 days ago. Fortunately had my Canadian one with me too.

🛬Down safe LHR

Passing over Holyhead, Wales, as Mini-Koot enters the “mainland” of the UK.

Mini-Koot all boarded for his flight! (He didn’t pay for a ticket, so will be sneaking a ride in my pocket :P)

Mini-Koot spies the plane that will take us to the UK.

Mini-Koot has ridden the entirety of Line 2, and now it’s time for a bus to the airpot.

Ok, Mini-Koot … let’s head to the UK for a few weeks.