Clocks are back so Kim is back.....

Yo TGIFers

Long time no blog.....I guess I feel that Facebook has taken a lot of the Blog out of me - as I tend to seize the moment these days...and now I'm 'Tweeting' to 'Twitter' too - so it's like e-overload! I've found though it's better to follow than be followed......so I wonder about you TGIFers whether you ought to start tweeting and blogging - some of you are - and I love it! I'll tell you later out this week's Tweet from Symphony Hall when I suffered a severe wardrobe malfunction and felt the need to share my embarrassment!

I am going to try and turn over a new leaf starting now - and start gym up again - as I've been neglecting the body beautiful and someone is storing tyres without asking - cheeky sods! 5lb of tyres have made their way round my middle and lower regions - and it isn't good. I've sort of got out of my usual OCD routine - so I do need to pick it up again really - and that goes for the TGIFs whether you like it or not.

Thing is with Facebook (and it's not like I haven't got a life) I've become addicted to a few of the games on there - so I've ended up running two 'virtual' farms and a cafe which I thought was bad enough until I heard some of my friends have aquariums, gardens, rollercoasters.... the list is endless - so I feel I'm maybe not too bad? If I've got time for farms I've got the time to bore the asses off you....

Job is going swimmingly - love the people I'm working with though I do think they may be suffering from project overload and are sometimes humouring me - like I can't tell the difference between a face that says "Wow!" and a face that says "Whoa!"

It's really great though getting back amongst the ward banter. Time will tell I suppose - the ethos behind the project is something most nurses only dream about - and that is to free up time doing wasteful poohy jobs like triplicate documentation, chasing stores, and it's about having things in the right place at the right time and communicating....so the impetus is there - I think nurses are generally happy at work, but no-one wants to work harder than they have to - one of our super housekeepers summed it up - she said it was about working smarter not harder - she's right.

Anyway, I'm still keeping work and home separate and off out doing my 'thang'. Me and dad are still going woodcarving once a week - it's very relaxing. He's turning a rolling pin into a totem pole while I'm doing well with my Orang-U-Tan - he's causing quite a stir cos he is holding something in his feet - that's the Orang-U-Tan..not dad ;-).... and it's debatable whether it is his toe or something only a nurse would carve in JeluTong wood ;-)

I've been busy doing cakes too - just finished a 4 tier 18th birthday pink spectacular - and this weekend have another Shrek and Christening cake. Done a Night Garden Roundabout which was a bit of a corker for a little one's first birthday which was quite a challenge too. I did a 'cook'  in the kitchen - and it was so funny when I put the lid on - he was peeping out of the box - what do you think?

I'll end with my fashion disaster tweet.....really was the culmination of a few recent wardrobe malfunctions....the other two being at work and rather boring in comparison - a shirt collar problem which had me imitating Harry Hill all day - looking like I was taking off....with lots of 'important' meetings to go to.... then I flopped my left boob out bending down in the office with a new wrap around top....... but this week at Symphony Hall - looking forward to chilling out and seeing Ludovico Einaudi for the third time - a prominent pianist... I spelt that right....I decided to go to the loo first.... and tucked my skirt in my knickers....well thong to be precise - and tho I had tights on - how unsexy... I was basically mooning to all the ladies in the loo....till one kind soul with her friend giggling away tapped me on the shoulder and put me right....so I quickly headed for my seat and relieved sat down and had a great position overlooking the stage - and was sitting reading the programme while the throng poured in, then I had to stand when someone needed to pass... and yes... you've guessed it... the seat flicked my skirt up so I ended up mooning again at the row behind.......

and on that note.... have a fab weekend....

Kim x

Yo TGIFers

Brace yourself for an update which will you leave you either a) begging for more b) begging for your server to crash or c) begging for idioms to be banned from Blogs or boring weekly e-mails.....

That was a bit clever wasn't it for a Friday?

Well, I'm now about two months into my new 'albeit temporary' job, and have left behind the World of 'Risk' for a while...though I'm still a risk to be around, so I haven't left that World altogether.

The new job is a bit like a baby rollercoaster ride at the moment - for every good day I have, the next is a bummer, though only leaves me with a slight lurch in my stomach. It has now got to the stage where I know today was good so Monday will be a bit of a pig...which brings me to why it's a bit of a rollercoaster ride.

Pig = swine flu - as I mentioned in my July blog, I was well excited two days into my new job.... but then get 'volunteered' for pig duties... sadly not the kind I have enjoyed in the past - where I've spent a fabulous day learning how to look after little piggies and get down and get mucky, but instead sent to an NHS Direct/Concentration Camp/Vodafone Call Centre styley Tamiflu EBay sales pitch. Never got sent though - I think my Brummie tones were deemed to be unsuitable for the Call Centre duties...

Shame though - at least I would get to talk to someone.... I'm not saying my new office colleagues are unfriendly....we're at the 'Norming stage' now... I did enjoy the 'Storming' stage - oh their little faces when they discovered I'd turned their fridge instead of the Urn off overnight, then the wry comments when I sent my rather large documents to the communal printer on 'manual double sided print' - meaning I have to get up and turn them over, but if they send something at the same time as my tedious garbage... it gets printed on the back of their very important 'one-line' e-mails that they feel compelled to print off to read?????? Then when I courteously run over to their desks to pick up their phones when they are out of the office and write them a story for their return, do I get a 'Thank you'? No - I get a question,
"Why are you going to the desks when the phone rings?"
"So I can pick up and take a message"
"We don't take calls for each other"
"I don't mind doing it - saves listening to the constant ringing"
Little smirk....."Well, you know you can use 'Call pick up' on your own phone...."
"Why no, I hadn't realised.... else why would I spin like a top, change into my Wonderwoman knickers and fly across the office every 10 minutes......"
(I didn't really say that)
LAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!

We haven't really gone through the forming stage - and doubt we ever will - as we all do very different jobs. We have no real need to become a 'team', as ever I am a team of one. It does shorten the team meetings I have though and the minutes are a doddle to write up!

Today, I was a bit sad as my colleagues appear to have 'normed' - I notice the Urn is now being switched off overnight, a couple more are up and down doing double sided printing, and I've even had a couple of telephone messages taken.... things will never be the same - I'm going to have to find my laughs somewhere else .......

There is light at the end of the tunnel - as I don't spend much time in the office - my job is now about working on the wards - and both teams I am currently working with remind me of why I loved the humour and clever wit on the wards. I have of course retorted to bribery - BOGOF biscuits and chocolates are frequently delivered - as part of my project management style - so both teams are getting slowly more rotund, which makes me look more efficient as I bustle amongst them checking my pedometer every 10 minutes.....

Is that OK for now you TGIFers?
Any requests? (polite ones only.....)

Kimmie x
Kimmithy.Blogspot.com

The Seldom Blogger.....

I feel compelled to blog, since I have been so bad at it over the summer weeks - what with all the jet setting trips, cake orders, etcetera etcetara.....and so forth.

Wikipedia defines blogging as 'regular entries of commentary' - which can function as a personal on-line diary.... and to be fair having found my old diaries from thirty+ years ago - some of which I've shared before on here - I admit my entries were never regular then - I went for days /weeks without writing anything - then there would be a profound entry - well a 'found' entry then....

Truth is - I've been on all my familiar websites trying to sort my fonts - and then stumbled across this and felt guilty - thing is, I have been fiddling again - and now my PC is deliberately antagonising me by opening some webpages up in size 6 font - and others in size 66 font.... neither of which suit either end of my varifocal lenses.

I have aged somewhat since last blog - due to the stresses and strains of the new job (which nearly didn't start - thanks to the swine flu crisis which you may have heard about), a greenhouse cake which I was ironically finishing off during one of the hottest weeks of the year, plus I had another 'official' birthday ... it was a quiet affair - I'm never really sure how old I am these days - I knew it wasn't 'special' though - two more years till I reach my half century.

Thirty years ago - bang on - my diary entry tells of an 18 year old who got excited as she had lots of cards with £1 in and some dynamo lamps off dad - and his card was addressed to "My lose floorboard finder." in recognition of my amazing achievements - always forgetting something from upstairs and trying to creep round an old house when he was on nights - I was no lightweight even then .... ;-D... and there's a classic four page entry in the diary detailing every conversation at the 'do' in the evening - when I wrote poignantly about one of the Youth Club Leaders... "Bob's been on my mind since he kissed me (it was a birthday kiss for goodness sake - even then I was no good at reading the signs!!), I keep hoping he meant it (he did... as a BIRTHDAY kiss...) I mean, Phil had to be held down outside so that I could kiss him on the cheek!!" Poor Phil... he's never recovered you know....

Y'see the story is still the same thirty years on - and the only men I can kiss now are those poor sods who kindly friends pin down :-D ... some things never change eh?

Now I've resurfaced, I'll pop some new news up - have lots to tell you about the new job, and some great walks and weekends - met a great new bunch of Mancunian SPICERs I met up at Hadrian's Wall.

Job is going well - very productive - will tell you all about that too soon.

Enjoy the rest of the summer - blog soon

Kim x

TGIS... they tried to make me stay in Rehab' and I said nooo nooo noooo

Anna says goodbye.....

Hi Friday peops,

Day late cos I had a bit of an accident on the way to bed last night and due to the bloody mess and throbbing .... more later on what I think may be the first accident of this kind.......

Had a good week at work - tying up loose ends and also a couple of days in the new job - start proper next week.

I drove them bonkers - as always - all week passing through various orifices and clinics asking them if they'd signed my leaving card and contributed to my leaving gift - they just thought I was being cheeky - cos originally I wasn't supposed to be leaving til September. I hate big 'do's' though and made sure I didn't get one of those false send offs with false speeches - cos I threatened to 'out' a few of the buggers who have given me a hard time - I still did it - but on a smaller scale.... you can't peak too soon eh? Quite satisfying - and funny to see some open mouths :-O when I was 'open and honest' ..... wouldn't have me any other way ;-)

My boss Liz arranged for a few people to turn up in the office - think the Town Hall had already been double-booked - and it was nice saying goodbye to some of them..... nuff said. I was welcomed to the World of 'senior management' by someone who has just climbed up the threadbare ropeladder of NHS management -being short anyway has not quite got over the extra height yet - I pointed out that this new job was hopefully my route back to the real world - not senior management - the wards - somewhere that particular 'senior' manager has never worked :-/

Photos of the throng - and Jim - my secret chocolate supplier - I'll be a size 8 now!!

I had some very thoughtful presents tho so they must have had a collection ;-) and did get a bit emotional - having thought back to the last few jobs I've had where my line managers have been rather dubious, it felt a bit daft leaving behind the best one I've ever had - even if this is a great opportunity - so when I mentioned to the gathered throng my eyes started leaking!

I recall a job that I walked out of after 3 months cos the GP was a harridan (still is) and when I went back the next day to collect my personal belongings the Practice Manager told me I was trespassing and threatened to call the police - sad ol' World eh? Then another who evicted me from the desk I'd been sat at for two years and told me I'd got to find somewhere to work because a finance manager was being employed and he was more important than I was.....and of course not forgetting the very first time I was made redundant from the Liver Unit - and told in the corridor in passing "Oh you were right Kim... you're job has gone in the new structure...." There are more but it's boring - but it does make it difficult trying to find referees when you apply for new jobs when half the buggers you've left behind you wouldn't want to be associated with! Good ol' NHS eh!! Caring profession...

I'm dead excited about next week though - can't wait to see which 'rule' I break in the new office... I'll let you know next week. The ward gang at Moseley seem a good bunch - so I can't wait.

I'm supposed to be going for a bimble tomorrow but am having trouble getting shoes on after my electric toothbrush attacked me last night - YES TRUE! I wonder if it is the first ever toothbrush accident? I picked it out of my bathroom cupboard and the heavy battery base became parted from the brush and before I knew it had headed like a dart for my little pinkie! Blood everywhere - looked like a chainsaw massacre in the bathroom! It's not any better tonight - still very swollen and tender and not liking shoes - so I'm flip flopping around today hoping it gets a bit better cos I don't want to miss a 'girlie' catch up with my pals Fiona and Anna :-/

Hope you all have a good weekend - what's left of it

Love

Kimmie xx

Daddy's birthday blog

Daddy's girl.... Story telling outside outside the shed... and one of dad's fans!

Yo Friends, Roamers and Countryfile fans,

Quite a busy week at work - as I had to cram the week's work into two days.

Spent two days on a course being hedgumucated about how to be lean.... not in the sense of being 'trim' you understand in the old beautilicious blobby areas of one's body, or in the unique way one can lean up a wall or doorway and watch the World go by, but in the sense of applying a lean approach ie measuring how efficient you really are and finding better ways to be more productive. There was lots of 'doing' which makes a nice change.

On Thursday off to Manchestaaaw Conference Centre on the train - and with my new 'lean thinking' head on, spent 15 minutes trying to work out how to get out of Piccadilly station, then another 20 minutes or so walking round the block twice in a figure of 8 before asking one of the locals the right way!

It was quite an evangelical experience - for once it wasn't 'experts' standing up and pontificating - just ordinary nurses - and even a guy from 'Estates' (for those of us in the NHS who know these boys you will be a little :-O when I say) was actually excited about the new 'productive' way of working!? What is happening here?? The 'NHS BLOGDOCTOR' has a cynical take on it - if any of you want to understand more - one of his comments include "Well done Nicky, you have tidied a cupboard."

I was exhausted with all the hallelujah style praising going on, but all in all a good three days to mentally prepare me for my new job starting in a couple of weeks. So, back to work on Friday where reality bites - and spent a very unproductive day :-/..... got home and wrote on 'Facebook' that I was looking forward to a 'couch potato' styley weekend - which of course was immediately spotted by my Canadian emigrant friend Helen who wrote on my 'wall' that she was pleased to see I was putting my learning into practice...oops!

I have spent a nice weekend dedicated to Pater - who was 78 yesterday. It's quite an achievement as he has tried really hard to leave the planet a couple of times. I'm hoping he lasts a little longer as I got him an annual subscription to the woodcarving mag' ;-)...and a nice toolbag for his carving tools - we're still working on our pieces together. Ian got him two fab tomes of WWI and WWII photographs - so he did very well.
Off to watch the final of 'The Apprentice' now - hope your weekend was a good un

Have a good week :-)

PS link to more photos on Facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=116041&id=648607651&l=0660f6c749

Kimmie x

TGIS....

Not doing very well am I?

Truth is life has been busy and I wasn't convinced that sharing my news weekly was that popular - tho I sometimes find it therapeutic personally - so I thought I'd try and get going again. Got a fair bit of news - got a right tail to tell......

Last time I blogged I was about to go llama trekking to celebrate my friend Sue's 50th birthday - followed by a hot date......I pulled a rather cute llama called Ayrton - who had fab dreglocks and was chatty and interesting and made me feel really special...then there was the date. I guess I should have read the warning signs when he declined to call it a 'date' more of a 'going out episode' - whatever! We did manage to make it to a second 'going out episode'. On the bright side, neither of them spat at me, despite friends saying they might!
Had some great walks - mostly Cotswolds, Malverns and Worcester way - and got my ramblers tan coming on nicely - one recently ended up at the Hooky Brewery - that was good - and on another we had a steam train and Lancaster/Hurricane/Spitfire flypast! Yesterday was out over the Malverns - gorgeous weather - heard a cuckoo which was cool.

Dennis gave us a bit of a scare recently - I noticed he seemed under the weather so - after one helluva kerfuffle - with the neighbour's help - he hates his box - off we trot to the vet - turns out he has an abscess on his derriere - and so after an overnight stay I go to collect a rather embarrassed cat - when I opened the box to let him out I was gobsmacked - he looked like he was mooning - he had his bum shaved and had some nice neat holes to drain puss puss out! Gross! I was supposed to be baking two cakes that weekend - alas! To cut a long story short, all is now well after a couple more check ups - the vet was quite cute - so it was worth the kerfuffles to get him in his box - when I say cute I wouldn't entertain the thought of going out with someone who relished picking the scabs off Dennis's bum every time we went! Yuk!

In the middle of all this I decided after much to-ing and fro-ing to go for a job interview for a secondment opportunity - and was successful. It's a bit frustrating admitting that the job is to help support nurses get back to what they do best - ie nursing - I have a belief that most nurses decided on their job originally because they enjoy giving something back - it's basic stuff which a fellow blogger (some dick dock who is obviously a great team player - NOT....) berates - possibly rightly so - but anything that makes it better for the patient and the staff surely has to be a good thing? Time will tell of course, and I'll keep you posted.

I am of course going to be sorely missed in my current job - I doubt they'll even notice I've gone! My boss said originally that I would have to work 4 months notice - this is around the same as the politicians who are currently bleeding us dry - though I wont be getting a big pay off - but less than most Chief Executives and Queens and Kings and stuff! Needless to say that they have now realised my worth and brought it down to three weeks - suppose I should be pleased....

Me and pops are still enjoying the woodcarving - I'm on an Orang U Tan now - in jelutong wood. The Gardeners World garden is being filmed right opposite our workrooms - so we get to see Toby and the film crew planting bits and pieces. We also get to see the crows swooping in when the film crew have gone obliterating their masterpieces... CAW...not so good :-/

This is me and Bob with our 'Maquettes' - now go Google that one - mine is an Orang U Tan called 'The Professor' and Bob's is a mermaid called 'Sandy Shore'.... :-D

.... and this is what hapens when you leave your Maquette unattended at the workbench :-D

We all popped to 'Woodex' which was a great exhibition with loads of brilliaaant carvings and woodturners - and I met the real Gepetto - what a lovely man.

The other carvers are all gearing up for the annual competition - which is 'Seasons' this year - there is an air of secrecy around some of the entrants - holding their chisels close to their chest (if Yew get my drift). I'm all fir giving it a go - but I cedar wood be no benefit - especially if I won - I don't think I'd be too poplar - I'd think it was OaK but they'd be just like "Life's a beech!"

and on that note... hopefully I'll be back proper now :-)

Enjoy the sun - loads more photos on Facebook

Kimmie x

TGIS :-)...

Hello TGIFers

Thank God it's Spring eh?

Sorry it's been a while - Bloggers block - plus a combo of having my PC 'fixed' PLUS CBA issues PLUS I've been spending a lot more time on 'Facebook' - tho Janet Street Porter thinks it's sad I am enjoying catching up with some of my past.... which brings me on...

I took mom to see Cirque du Soleil's Quidam - and sadly the NIA are so tight they put a load too many seats on the flat floor - there was me thinking at £50 each that we'd get a good view - wrong! Poor mom (Happy Mother's Day!) could only see the acts when they were being flung through the sky or dangling down from the rafters - but not when they were doing their 'thang' on the stage - with some lovey dovey couple with bad hair in front of her she was well struggling.... and playing the old guilt trip nicely ...coupled with the fact that this humungous arse needed a wee before the interval.... it was really quitesplendid, however I was really upset for mom .

Anyway interval came and this huge arse struggled past us again - and weirdly enough I recognised it - slightly worrying.... "Is that you Miss M?" She turned and smiled - my PE teacher from 30+ years ago - you still callthem 'Miss' don't you? Anyway she was leading a revolution to the Box Office to swap seats cos she was struggling - there ended up being about 100 of us who swapped seats..... what slightly worried me was the ease in which I said to her "I thought I recognised the arse".... she turned and glowered... but I wasn't a little 16 year old any more...oh it felt good :-) Another bit of good news is that Cirque have offered me and mom complimentary tickets to their next tour....

Last time I blogged was during the snow - and it's all looking very different now - snowdrops just dying off to make way for crocusses and daffs - been on some good bimbles - quite lovely - mostly round the Cotswolds. Spent a weekend in Cheddar and took myself off to find out what happened to my dad's cousin Agnes cos her Christmas cards suddenly stopped. She moved to Shipham some years ago. Well, the old bugger has died and her house is demolished and a 'Grand Designs' styley cottage built there - the current owner Christine invited me in for coffee and filled some gaps - really kind - now I'd like to fill her son-in-law Henry's gap for not telling us of her demise - aren't families great!

Well, I'll be off now - got to prepare myself for a heavy weekend ahead - llama trekking tomorrow - and the first hot date for a year!! Should go swimmingly if I still smell of llamas by the evening :-)

Have a fab weekend folks

Kimmie x

TGIF :-) There's no event like a snow event....when you're wearing the wrong thong

Yo Friday peops,

What a build-up to the ‘snow event’ as the Met Office now call it…there I was Sunday night, taking all the ‘severe weather warnings’ in, peeping out the curtains, watching the first flakes fall, priding myself on my preparedness, laying out my gear in readiness – socks/boots/waterproofs/fleeces – better be sensible and walk to work the next morning. ….

Monday morning…pre-planning falls apart – can’t decide what to wear if I’m not in car - change mind 6 times – leave pile of clothes and boots throughout the house, end up wearing half rambling gear/half work clothes – two fleecy layers and waterproof on top with beanie, snood, trews, waterproof trousers and walking boots - carrying rucky with spare top and work shoes - trudge 2 miles through snow – schoolkids laughing at my abominable ‘fat fart look’ – can’t reach my handkerchief – in a pocket under two layers of fleece – realise after half a mile of arse squeaking that I’m wearing the wrong thong – should be wearing walking thong – wearing work thong – wrong -arrive at work wet and snotty (but glowing green….) half hour late – cancel clinics – ambulances can’t get up side streets – OK coming down tho…. sideways…..boots off - busy busy – change top – doesn’t match bottoms – not a good look - more busy busy – big meeting – attendance poor cos of snow – little meeting - me and Lolly (my beautilicious assistant) forced to eat most of the Sainsbury’s chocolate covered flapjacks (well it was a state of emergency….) tho Wendy & Shazbags felt the same sense of emergency – girls – you gotta stick together – we hide the rest from James so we’d still had some left for the next day – it nearly worked :-/…. spend another half hour getting layers back on to go home – walked home through a Winter Wonderland – detoured through Bournville then bimbled home – got some great flaky shots…..spend rest of evening watching the cars slip down the road sideways – better than telly…..

Tuesday morning….get up half hour early – in case the pre-planning falls apart again – it does. Stiff after the trudging yesterday – put walking thong on – very pleased I remembered. Phone Easton next door who has just finished Cadbury night shift – for live road report – spend 10 minutes gassing – walk through house putting on bits of clothes I left in a trail yesterday….EASTON…it’s 6 am!…...late - decide to catch bus – change again into something more ‘bus-like’…improvement on yesterday - look like a Womble now….worried about whether I’ll get off at the right stop – can’t see out the steamed up windows – there appears to be some respiration going on – though you wouldn’t think it looking round ;-) Arrive at work – how sensible leaving work shoes carried in yesterday under my desk – wrong – they are my ‘trouser shoes’ not my ‘skirt shoes’ – and they don’t go with the wrong thong… I sidle past the Rehab’ engineers open door – they too are all hot and steamy…. 8am – phone call from the beautilicious Lolly “I’m stuck in the car park…help…” She’s skating round the car park in her mini cooper - I pop to the room full of hot engineers and mention Lolly’s name – it’s like a mass ejector button has gone off… I wonder (out loud) whether they would all do the same for a Womble – and they all mutter under their breath….I think I hear one of them (who does a great impression of the Churchill dog)…. mumble “Oh yes”….

Wednesday – took the Hummer in – acted like a big sled all the way there and back – bit hairy…..

Thursday – as per Monday – but wearing right thong, wrong socks – so had to stay in boots all day – another bad look….

Friday – as per Wednesday – it does look pretty though – such a shame that a couple of inches can make all that difference… as the Bishop said…..

Keep warm folks…..

Kim :-)

How not to park on ice.......

http://www.jokemachine.co.uk/funny_videos/how_not_to_park_on_ice.asp

TGIF :-) PC and PC

Hello Friday peops,

Yes it’s TGI February… only 325 shopping days till Christmas….
I have to eat a bit of humble pie after my daily telephone calls to the Insurance Company to make my PC warranty real, I had a very nice engineer visit ….and give me new CD drive that works – YAY!! Plus a lesson in software – what it is and what it isn’t - it’s hard – well, not really it’s soft, but bit embarrassed not knowing the difference between software and hardware – doh! – his last bit of advice was that I still needed to wipe everything clean to make it work better – so I’ve dusted it down – but the damn thing is still slow?

Went on an E-bay training day last weekend – a proper E-bay educationalist educated me. I’ve bought loads but never sold anything y’see. He told us to start with something easy that we didn’t mind losing out on – so I’ve found some ad hoc antiques and decided to start with a ‘Paired item lot’ – to put in the 'Collectables' category ....took lots of photos from different angles – he said to check the ‘completed lists’ to see similar items that were successful and those which were not - to learn from the descriptions and photos and bottom asking price…..I spent hours writing the ad, “Mother and Father automatons – fully moving parts – bit stiff – very amusing to watch – BUY ONE GET ONE FREE” then bummer - found out you can’t sell live items on E-bay – so wondered if any of you TGIF crowd may be interested? To be honest, I’ve decided to hang on to them for now and try selling the Wedgwood ashtray instead…..

Work has been good – I know I don’t mention it often, but I actually managed to finish a job –YES - Honest – Scout’s honour…. only taken a year – which is good going cos some of the other projects have been ongoing since I started in 2004 – so I’m well chuffed. See…. The NHS CAN get things done (ish)!
So while I’ve been beavering away all week, I’ve been snarling about the occasional ‘funny’ e-mail that my work colleagues send through – I’m far too busy to be having fun y’see – wish I had the luxury of time to send funnies blah blah – however since this appeared to be a short one, I opened it – and smiled quietly at the irony of the non-PC content - since the originator had left their Firm’s footers at the bottom of the e-mail, proudly proclaiming “Law Firm of the Year Award 2008-09…..British Legal Awards” and even better… “Equality & Diversity, CSR Award 2008-09.. from the Law Society”… and the e-mail…..enjoy!

::: BREAKING NEWS :::
Due to the recession in 2009 the government will start deporting all the mentally ill people to save money.
I started crying when I thought of you.
Run my little crazy friends, run!
Well, what can I say ???
Someone sent it to me, and dammit, I'm NOT going alone !!?

TGIF :-) 160109 On line and on a line!

Yo Friday peops,

I know you’re all dying to hear about how my pooter has come back fit and well – but sadly it ain’t. The USB ports have miraculously cured themselves – an IT miracle has occurred…. however the CD bit is still whirring like a Chinook and refusing to open photos – maybe it’s got taste? It has been a delight though chatting to the twoneuronesconnecting drongo call-centre ‘people’ all of whom have a different line in ‘fob-off’

Needless to say the two year ‘desktop warranty’ with the promise of an engineer visiting me in three days is interpreted by the company as ‘we’ll send a courier at your most inconvenient time to take you pooter for a week, and then return it saying there isn’t a problem even though there quite clearly is’…..
I was very calm though – after listening to the “Your call is important to us… these calls are recorded for training purposes…. blah blah”…. I asked the umpteenth drongo “Can you clarify for MY training purposes how the two year desk top warranty stating an engineer will call in three days means that actually it is driven off in a big white van….. blah blah…..” to which Drongo replied….”Ah YES, y’see the warranty doesn’t cover software problems…… blah blah….”, to which I replied… “Ah, YES y’see this is the problem with using a telephone and not sending a real engineer, who for his for their training purposes would see that I’m DYED blonde and not REAL blonde……and I know the bloody difference between software and hardware……….”

Yuuuup…. I’m still waiting for the engineer to call…..which was the last false promise drongo 124 made :-/

On top of all this I’m worried about the credit crunch, but no more….I’ve learned first hand why we are all in this mess……. I raided my piggy bank and bagged up £60 worth of coins (aka shrapnel), lugged them up to the bank, stood in the snakey cordoned queue for 15 minutes, leaning at dangerous angles trying to carry the load….finally resting it on the counter… then the lump of lard behind the counter swivelled on her precarious toadstool and smilingly pointed to the 12 font (bold though?) notice on the back wall ‘Maximum 5 bags per person per day’……….
I ask incredulously, “You’re a bank and you’re refusing my money?”…..
“Well……., she says, we have to pay to have it to be taken away…..”
Well, use some of this to pay for it……”
” Sorry….”
“OK, I understand, rules are rules…..”
…. "Oh….” she says looking at her PC, which has obviously NOT been serviced by the same engineers who shafted me…… “I notice we offered you a mortgage in…..”
“…Before you finish, I’d love to stop and talk but I have £55 worth of shrapnel weighing me down……..”

Touché :-)

Have a great weekend folks x

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Hi folks

I've had one of those weeks where everything I've touched has broken - it started with those stuffing balls, then has moved on to all things technical - tho I suppose it is all balls still?
My PC is poorly - probably all the USB gizmo's dangling from it's aching ports!!! My CD is not reading CDs properly - and is clunking (that's a technical term) and my USB ports aren't working - so it is off with it to Pooter Hospital tomorrow. :-(

It stopped talking to my camera first - when I tried to download pics of mater and pater as stuffed as the proverbial Turkey clucking round my living room on Christmas day till I shooed them out :-D

I'm not sure how I'll manage without Facebook - it's my first real test - I'm not sure they do withdrawal treatment for Facebook addicts?

My new years resolutions include several things - one of them was to get back to nature - I've decided not to scare the window cleaner off again (if he ever returns?) though - so have joined the local wildlife Trust. Myself and Sue went to spend loadsamoney on new walking stuff at 'Go Outdoors' and were drawn towards a very nice man all in green (with blue nose and hands) - and he managed to talk us into vole counting - well there's something new for 2009 I thought!!! If you want to join me let me know :-)

Another resolution was to make abit more effort - I'd let myself go a bit last year - so since I had lost 10lb and started to feel better about my dangly bits I decided also to start putting my face back on - though it is an effort when the eyeliner pencil sort of bumps across the eyelid wrinkles - necessitating a bit of a sharpening job - then.... bugger me... the end snapped off so I had to fish it out with my fine tweezers - success... I'm looking in the mirror feeling mighty pretty then see one of those witchy hairs poking out of my chin - it happens to us all at this age, so I decide to pluck it out - and then you get carried away don't you - so I yanked a few more out - I was going to look gorgeous..... anyway I refocused and leant back to admire my handiwork and AAAARGHHHH!!! I looked like 'Desperate Dan' - I'd not cleaned the tweezers out so I had lots of blue dots all over my chin. Decided I couldn't be arsed and went to work like it - nobody said a thing - it's great being old!!!

Have a good un - hopefully be back on line soon

Kimmie x