Aargh! What is it about this time of year that has me sneezing and wheezing and all hay-fevery - it's autumn for goodness sake! There's no pollen about! But every single year this happens, late March / early April, and persists for weeks. I don't know what it is that's setting me off but I wish it would just Go Away ( Read more... )

Just as I was getting out of the shower tonight the shower head fell off, landing where I had been standing seconds earlier. It's snapped clean off the arm and is going to need to be replaced. It looks like being the year for plumbing; earlier this year I had to replace a large rubber seal on my toilet cistern which had sprung a leak - and there I ( Read more... )

I've felt unsettled all day today. It started with an email via Linkedin, from the regional manager of the bank which bought the one I used to work for, inviting me for a coffee and to discuss opportunities to join her team. I really, really don't want to go back to targets and being customer-facing in a branch - but what if she has something else ( Read more... )

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Crossing my fingers that Frank won't eat my post tonight....
Firstly a belated thank-you to clmiles for the gingerbread man! I've not been able to access my profile page for a couple of days to see what / when; apologies for not acknowledging it sooner ( Read more... )

Got a phone call the other day from a colleague, letting me know that there was a job advertised on Seek which was right up my alley. The vacancy, for an LMI underwriter with QBE Insurance, involves all the favourite aspects of my current role - financial analysis, credit checking and compliance - with none of my least favourite, being ancillary ( Read more... )

Rain, rainy rain... has to be the weekend. My car's still clean from its wash last week so I'm not going grocery shopping today, especially after taking the toll road to work all this week in an attempt to avoid roadworks. They've been the major cause of making my car filthy over the last few months - and I always seem to arrive there just after ( Read more... )