It has been ages since I last blogged and some of you have been kind enough to bother to ask why. Well the sad truth is that I am too scared to be honest in case I get into trouble! One of my friends remarked that was the same excuse her young son gives her...! Not promising major revelations so may not be worth your while reading any further!!
So what has happened, since last we blogged? Been on holiday with my recovering other half (now fully recovered) and bought a 'new' car. My last car was clearly very sick while we were away and sadly I decided I really couldn't afford the burnt orange mini convertible I really wanted, not even second hand, so I bought the next best thing. It's very much a girl's car, although (again, sadly) it's not pink. There was a pink one.....but it was quite old and I wanted something relatively new. And cheap. Ok, it's a smart. I know it doesn't match my girl racer image that I have been cultivating for so many years now, but it's cheap - did I mention that already??? - cheap on petrol, cheap on road tax, cheap to buy, and still a convertible. I have been shocked though by the number of cars that now cut in front of me and the a tad frustrated to find I can't cut them up in return. The only way is to have some calm motoring. It's not for distances, I have to say, but its fab round London. Should I ever want to take it into central london, its also congestion charge free! The other half has christened it and asked me where my little hat with the bell has gone. Of course that makes him Big Ears, but strangely he still thinks this is funny.
And work? Ah, work. Least said, soonest mended I would say. Interesting times we live in, with a new smaller executive that saw off all its opposition, in telecoms. It's opposition that keeps us honest (as someone once said to me) and I have never believed no opposition is a healthy state for any organisation. It encourages complacency and ultimately in-fighting and there are some who should recognise that state!
Bt remains the basket case we all know it to be these days. Unable to make the progress I want in some areas, I have done some good deals for people in bad situations. sadly they all involve them leaving the company which is not my preferred outcome, but in all cases that's either where they already were or about to be. One of these actually involved a very good friend from the postal side who helped out one f our branch officers recently. I was really pleased to meet up with him briefly earlier this week, for the first time in at least a year - probably more - and I it was great to have a good old honest chat and gossip with someone who knows me well and where we can have that rarity of things these days, an honest conversation!
Since I last blogged, my hair went pink again. Then it faded, very fast, so I complained. Never complain to a hairdresser about your colour as I found out to my cost. I wanted lots of pink, quite bright and in a way that will last. Be careful what you wish for!!! My discreet (erm, really) pink streaks are now so pink they are almost purple and I'm struggling to find anything other than pink. Now, I like pink, and I'm not afraid of a little, or even a lot, of colour but you could pick me out of a crowd now from at least a mile away. The other half has been wearing dark glasses for a week and warning everyone who comes to the house to not look directly at me in case it causes hair-glare.
In a weird about turn, a friend has been asking me about standing for the WAC and I have to say that unless it radically changes I can't see the point, and yet another friend, to whom I have previously referred on this very blog, has told me she may go to the women's conference, for the first time. Be still my beating heart! She quite rightly says its for them to win her over. Now the women's conference is a different thing from the WAC and I believe a good conference usually and well worth women in the union attending.
Got to go, the Seething Wells Talcum Colliery band is marching through Surbiton today - not to be missed ! www.seethingwells.org
Glad to be back, though..............later x
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