I've been reading all this advice - get up at your normal time and use your usual commute time to read a book; get dressed into your normal work clothes; do your makeup etc as though you were going into the office... yeah sod that for a game of soldiers. I've been working from home for the past two weeks, and it is expected to continue indefinitely ( Read more... )

Sad news about Peter Capaldi leaving Dr Who - I liked his 12, far better than Matt Smith's 11. I hope that his replacement is as good; let's start a campaign for Rupert Graves ( Read more... )

I've been sitting here listening to this odd noise for a while, one of those that you can't quite place, and you're not entirely sure where it's coming from... finally I turned around and there's the cat sitting behind me and licking the carpet. No, I don't know either ( Read more... )

.. I work with the best people in the world. Seriously. I was abused by a broker yesterday - and let me just say that it's not part of my job description to even take their phone calls; I only took the call because the broker's BDM was at a conference and uncontactable for the day - and word got round the office quite quickly. I had people coming ( Read more... )

Seriously. I've been looking for a new everyday watch for a little while and just found one on an online shopping site. I completed the purchase only to realise that the delivery address they had for me was the bank I resigned from three years ago - which shows how long it's been since I bought anything from that site. I just hadn't noticed the ( Read more... )

Last weekend I attended the wedding of my best friend's daughter. It was held at a really fancy country club and when I first arrived I thought I might have been in the wrong part of the club / at the wrong wedding as there was a string trio playing Vivaldi - but then I saw a bunch of cat rescue people and knew I was in the right place ( Read more... )

Walked into work this morning to find that the weekend's system upgrade was the exact reverse. What a mess! The only thing that was working as it should was outlook, and even that gave up the ghost mid-afternoon. And it was a systems-wide issue, too, impacting every department. Customer Care got hammered by callers who couldn't transfer funds into ( Read more... )

What is is about Uniqlo stores - does this happen anywhere else? I was wandering around one at lunch today and every so often a salesperson randomly walking around the store would shout "welcome to Uniqlo!" and the cry would be repeated by any other salespeople within earshot. It was like a store-wide game of Marco Polo ( Read more... )

Bonus time! I thought we weren't getting bonuses this year (or at least that I wasn't) as we normally know by the beginning of June, but they left it till the last minute to tell us this time. It's not a huge amount but it's extra and very much appreciated. Normally with a windfall like this I am very responsible and put a third into savings, a ( Read more... )

So, you know, feel free to go about your day without this. But uurgh I feel off; my face is itchy and my nose won't stop running, and I'm sneezing all the time. It's totally the wrong time of year for hayfever but here I am with all the symptoms. Again. I was hoping the weekend's rain would settle things down but it really hasn't ( Read more... )