Looks like I'm back on-line
The BT bod come & fiddled around, asked who had wired in the telephone extension upstairs & when told BT said that it was a complete botch job & he'd had to rewire it. By all accounts, he was a very nice man who wouldn't leave until the broadband was working. Obviously realised he was dealing with a couple of complete idiots when it comes to these things. Have still had a couple of disconnections but they only last a minute or so as opposed to hours, days or weeks & it doesn't happen every day (touch wood) so I suppose I can live with it.
DH is jittery about work again. He's been temping doing HGV driving since he told his previous employer to keep their job but hasn't had a job since Christmas. Apparently there are no driving jobs at the moment. So he's signed on at the Job centre again to get his stamp paid & has spoken to the bank about the mortgage insurance. He said this morning that he would go to my agency & tell them he'd do clerical work for £11 an hour. I nearly choked! Then mentioned that I was on £7.50 an hour & to get £11 doing clerical work, he would need to be able to do a litle more than turn a PC on!
There have been minor developments in my work situation. I work with three lovely Spanish people. Just before Christmas I was told one of them wasn't coming back after Christmas (Daniel, the one that makes me practise my Spanish) & the other two have been moved to a newly formed company within the group. They have also been told it is too expensive to keep them in UK so them must go back to Spain as soon as is practical. That leaves me on my own! My boss says she will try & set up a work MSN account & webcam so we can keep in touch. Can'r recall if I've said this before but I keep hearing her mention my name - one of the few words I recognise when she speaks in Spanish as she goes so quickly. She has been telling the powers that be in Spain they must keep me & offer me a permanent job. Today, she was telling someone here that as I was a temp I could simply tell her that I wasn't coming back & the Team would be in trouble. It's all very nice that she has so much confidence in me but I wonder if I should tell her that I don't know if I want a permanent job again, particulalrly with the group that made me redundant 15 months ago?. I quite like the idea of temping & being able to take a week off when I liked. The other thing is that I've been told if I accept a job within the group within 2 years of being made redundant, I have to hand some if not all of my redundancy money back. That could be difficult as I've spent it! DH says not to worry as the new company hasn't been set up yet & there is no actual job offer but I just wonder if I should mention that I'm not that desperate for a permanent job. Maybe she really is worried I will walk out on them & thinks this is what I want? Think I'll wait & see what happens.
Been doing more on my family history research. Ordered about 60 quids worth of certificates only to find that a couple don't quite match with details I was so very sure of. Years being a little out I can cope with. A completely different father's name to the one I was expecting is a different kettle of fish. Back to the drawing board with my great great grandfather I think!
DS & his finance seeing to be progressing well with the house move. Waiting on solicitors doing their thing now. Their house move is costing me a fortune! I made the rash offer of fitting out a room for them & they picked the kitchen. The washer dryer comes tomorrow & the fridge freezer next week! His bedroom here now looks like an Argos store room! Got hem new pillows & a duvet at the weekend as our local Co-op is closing down & they were almost giving stiff away. I've also been planning what I can do with the room when he does fully move out - craft room for my quilting & card making. Could put the PC up there too but then DH would never see me!
Off to catch up on friends journals now.
DH is jittery about work again. He's been temping doing HGV driving since he told his previous employer to keep their job but hasn't had a job since Christmas. Apparently there are no driving jobs at the moment. So he's signed on at the Job centre again to get his stamp paid & has spoken to the bank about the mortgage insurance. He said this morning that he would go to my agency & tell them he'd do clerical work for £11 an hour. I nearly choked! Then mentioned that I was on £7.50 an hour & to get £11 doing clerical work, he would need to be able to do a litle more than turn a PC on!
There have been minor developments in my work situation. I work with three lovely Spanish people. Just before Christmas I was told one of them wasn't coming back after Christmas (Daniel, the one that makes me practise my Spanish) & the other two have been moved to a newly formed company within the group. They have also been told it is too expensive to keep them in UK so them must go back to Spain as soon as is practical. That leaves me on my own! My boss says she will try & set up a work MSN account & webcam so we can keep in touch. Can'r recall if I've said this before but I keep hearing her mention my name - one of the few words I recognise when she speaks in Spanish as she goes so quickly. She has been telling the powers that be in Spain they must keep me & offer me a permanent job. Today, she was telling someone here that as I was a temp I could simply tell her that I wasn't coming back & the Team would be in trouble. It's all very nice that she has so much confidence in me but I wonder if I should tell her that I don't know if I want a permanent job again, particulalrly with the group that made me redundant 15 months ago?. I quite like the idea of temping & being able to take a week off when I liked. The other thing is that I've been told if I accept a job within the group within 2 years of being made redundant, I have to hand some if not all of my redundancy money back. That could be difficult as I've spent it! DH says not to worry as the new company hasn't been set up yet & there is no actual job offer but I just wonder if I should mention that I'm not that desperate for a permanent job. Maybe she really is worried I will walk out on them & thinks this is what I want? Think I'll wait & see what happens.
Been doing more on my family history research. Ordered about 60 quids worth of certificates only to find that a couple don't quite match with details I was so very sure of. Years being a little out I can cope with. A completely different father's name to the one I was expecting is a different kettle of fish. Back to the drawing board with my great great grandfather I think!
DS & his finance seeing to be progressing well with the house move. Waiting on solicitors doing their thing now. Their house move is costing me a fortune! I made the rash offer of fitting out a room for them & they picked the kitchen. The washer dryer comes tomorrow & the fridge freezer next week! His bedroom here now looks like an Argos store room! Got hem new pillows & a duvet at the weekend as our local Co-op is closing down & they were almost giving stiff away. I've also been planning what I can do with the room when he does fully move out - craft room for my quilting & card making. Could put the PC up there too but then DH would never see me!
Off to catch up on friends journals now.