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Umm. Hello. Long time no blog. Erstwhile readers will remember this bit of drama: LT Girl – The End Well guess who sent me an invitation to join her contacts list on LinkedIn last week? Most odd after 2 years … Continue reading →

I spent last weekend up north at sis-with-the-antique-shop, as she had a spare, much-coveted ticket to the twice yearly Paul Smith Warehouse sale. It wasn’t an auspicious start to the day, what with us all getting up at 4.30 am … Continue reading →

Yup – procrastination is the name of the game and I am astounded at just how good I am at it. No really, I’m a champion. I finished work on 15th April, but that sort of didn’t count as they … Continue reading →

Just heard from a former colleague: “Things are ok – but I feel that we are blindly moving towards an unwanted fate that is becoming more and more apparent.” And still the whole management team is in place. With almost … Continue reading →

Yesterday it cost me £45 for a perfectly charming chap called Teddy to tell me that my washing machine is not responsible for tripping my circuit-breaker every time it is switched on (it blew everything mid-wash cycle two evenings ago). … Continue reading →

It’s only been 6 days since my wireless router – provided by TalkTalk and still only a few months old – gasped its last and refused point blank to connect to the local exchange. It is still under warranty. I … Continue reading →

No need to make this password protected any more as not only am I (obv) not doing blog entries in the office, it also looks like the days of the business are numbered. I’m so, so glad I was in … Continue reading →

So here I am on gardening leave.  Okay, here I am unemployed … Ibiza was just what the doctor ordered -apart from the one day when it peed down, which fortunately (kinda) coincided with the incident of the dodgy tuna … Continue reading →

My former employer’s (!) head of IT (aka the bearded sloth) has just disabled my company gmail account.  This would be fine, except that I now won’t be able to hand over a whole load of information that they need … Continue reading →

Here I am on ‘gardening leave’ (aka jobless but still being paid for a bit).  I must say, it wasn’t too much of a hardship not having to schlepp into the office today, but I’ve still managed to spend most … Continue reading →