After last night's weighter downer, a sail on the horizon - seems like there are several ways to (quite literally) work around the New Work Light situation which mean I shouldn't lose out. Of course, the ideal situation is to get some other work to fill in the gaps, and that's where my making myself indispensible will, I'm hoping, pay off. Again, ( Read more... )

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It looks like the funding for New Work might be drying up, meaning work might get cut back to about a week a month (or a fortnight every two months) - and I'm going to be honest here, and say I'm terrified of going back to the ranks of the unemployed. And I don't just mean the money.

Just thought I'd get that out.

Looking through the comments on BBC's "Have Your Say" page "Does the welfare system need reform?", I despair for humanity's future. There are just so many of the same old tired right-wing media "panic nuggets" - "waaah waaah paying all my tax so scroungers can stay in bed", "waaah waaah 42-inch plasma TVs and SKY Sports", "waaah waaah teenagers ( Read more... )

Yup, I'm off again. Tomorrow, I'll be talking to my boss about my pay situation - and I hope I'll not need to go on strike again. Ever.

Meanwhile, I've completed the semi-mammoth task of "link-wrangling" the Glitterthorn profile at To Be Continued. I chose to remove all those instances where "The Big G" is merely mentioned, and halved the amount ( Read more... )

This wasn't originally going to be my top topic for this post, but I can't ignore the BIG news story of the moment...

The Short Version... Newspaper serialises book about Prime Minister Gordon Brown ALLEGEDLY bullying members of staff - which comes across as shoving, pushing and shouting at office staff. Brown's people say it's all lies. Head of ( Read more... )

Development News... So there I was, getting to grips with Chapter 7 of TDD-605 "She Returns", when the post arrived...

Do continue... ...and once again, The Fnajing System wants to "have a chat" - or, as it's better known, attempt to fix the unemployment figures with "help".

If they can, for once, actually help, I'll be grateful. If it's going ( Read more... )

Excuse me while I deal with some unfinished business...

*sends off a couple of emails*

...there, done. Now I can get back to writing, most likely this evening, or whenever the mood takes me before then.

Now this is interesting... Yesterday, the Conservative Party (currently Her Majesty's Opposition in Parliament, and strongly tipped to be the ( Read more... )