I am back in Scotland! After flying back with Levi and Mama, I got all settled in and checked out the new house. Ever since being back I have been working on applying to jobs, taking an online finance class and re-applying to Glasgow University. After a week of applying for jobs, I got an online interview secured at Marks and Spencers. Last week I had the interview and it went pretty well. I got a call and was informed that I got the job at the M&S bakery that is a 16 minute bike ride away from our place. I needed a way to get there since the start time was 6 AM, so we had to find a bike.

My mom texted Pat (our friend at Open Gates) just to see if he had any bikes at the moment and it turned out he had 2 'belters' as he called them. We walked down to Open Gates and I rode both of the bikes around to try them out. They were both pretty good, so we bought them. We got a great deal on them, 2 bikes for 90 Pounds. Mama and I rode them back home. It was amazing how it all fell into place, since Pat doesn't usually have bikes, but these had just come in. Our timing couldn't have been better!

I took one of the bikes down to a bike shop to check on the back break pads. They told me they looked good and they just tightened up my back breaks a bit so they work better. I also bought us a couple helmets and bike locks because apparently bikes get stolen in Glasgow pretty frequently.

Soon after, I was walking around the house and discovered a fox that was laying in the sun right outside our back door leading to our garden.

I went outside to sit on the table in our garden with some tea and listen to a book. The fox was pretty calm, he just migrated down to the lower part of our garden.

This weekend my Mom and I took a bus into town to go to TK Maxx. We needed some new paraben free shampoo, oils and tea. We went to the big TK Maxx on Argyle street first. We found some good shampoo and oils and I looked around all the Teas they had for a while and got about 6 new boxes of tea, each one different. I also found a cool new large tea mug. After we were done shopping we walked over to the other TK Maxx on Sauchiehall street, it is a bit smaller but we were searching for a salad topper that the first TK Maxx did not have in stock. On our walk down Buchanan street we saw a large protest march going on. It was in protest of all of the government restrictions in place / vaccine mandates. etc. It was great to see. One sticker I read said "It matters not to free men what tyrants write on paper".

We looked around the other TK Maxx but could not find the salad topper, so we took the bus back home. I tried my new peppermint and licorice tea once we got back. We must have over 20 boxes of tea in our tea collection at this point.

On Saturday for dinner we made a chicken pot pie. We cut up chicken, carrots, celery and peas and simmered them in chicken broth for 15 minutes. We also painted the bottom sheet of pastry with egg white and baked it before hand so that the bottom of the pot pie stayed crispy after we baked the entire dish. It turned out very delicious. It was baked just the right amount. Aine came over for dinner and she really liked it. We all played Racko after dinner for a bit.