Before this holiday fades irredeemably into the annals of faded memories, I'd better say something about my week in Norway and how that worked out for us all. It goes without saying that it was a lovely, magical holiday in a beautiful landscape which was also very expensive (apparently Norweigans earn three times as much as us Brits, thus charge ( Read more... )

Things are pretty surreal right now. We 'went live' at the call centre I'm currently wasting my life away at on Monday, which meant we almost instantly forgot everything we'd been taught in the previous four weeks (which were all training) when faced with the joys of chatting to customers about their financial decrepitude. Last night, I spent an ( Read more... )