Friday
Say a fond farewell to Dave who comes in to produce another issue of
Vanity Project on the Photocopier. Good to see him, good to hear the new job begins in the smoke on Monday. Positive vibes that direction. Helen comes into see us. Strangest event is writing an appendix for an independent inquiry that I wasn't expecting to write. Other news is FUBAR NHS strikes again as late in the day I get a visit from someone wanting to brush their skills up in anticipation of the need to look for gainful employment elsewhere. Fine and dandy but the person concerned will be a loss to the Trust, again we lose good people as a result of reform and not because we should lose them but because they are being frustrated and their talents aren't being utilised.
Home and I get sent out for ginger and come across some bottles of White Horse Bitter from the
White Horse Brewery. Grab a couple of bottles of a taste from home. How times have advanced when you can find real beer from home up Norf!
Saturday
Dates to me are things that appear magically on a page, or I read but don't pay a huge amount of attention to when I dust off the history books but not today. Today is the 4th November and I'm on a mission. Today is the day to buy the tickets for Cal's first foray into footie. A quick online sesh shows me I'm up too early for Everton but later in the morning (about one coffee into the day with thoughts of brewing another rattling round my head) and the
site is ready to do business. Result we have tickets for the Everton v Arsenal Carling Cup game on Wednesday. Callum is suitably excited!
News from Scotland is that Margaret has unfortunately died this morning. Although not unexpected it ain't exactly good news.
Other than this the day just cruises by with a shop at Sainsury's the viewing of various bits of recorded programs, some light reading and Monst drafting a letter to a school on behalf of the boy. I just tidy it up a little but the content is Monst's.
Start closing in on the ton of e-books catalogued. Easiest way to look at them is with the quick clicks in Liberty. Not perhaps the best way to spend your wedding anniversary but I get a perverse sense of achievement out of it. Poor Monst is still hobbled by bad knee. We fetch a variety of store catalogues for her to plan her Chrimbo assault on the shops, but other than that do very little.
