Got so cold spending the day outside it took a boiling hot bath, 2 cups of tea and lying in bed in a dressing gown under my duvet to warm up again!  Went to a wildlife centre and only really saw animals we could have seen in our backgardens (foxes, grey squirrels, chickens and, the biggest insult, magpies).  Spent most of the time looking into ( Read more... )

None of my friends who I attend Ceroc with seem to ever dance with Wierdos.  I, on the other hand, seem to get lumbered with them on a weekly basis.  See below ( Read more... )

They’ve reintroduced the Massager to work as everyone is so stressed.  I, of course, leapt at the opportunity but was it was an incredibly stressful experience itself!

The woman said my shoulders were extremely tight and when I said it was because my job is stressful, she replied with “What?  Audience Research? Isn’t that just phoning people up? ( Read more... )

Today one of my staff brought me a cup of tea from her office which involves going up one floor, along a gallery and back down without me asking.  It's coz the kettle in my office needs descaling so the tea tastes foul.  How thoughtful.  Knew there had to be some perks of being a manager!

Don't know what gave her the impression that I liked tea

There are 3 Jos in my department.  We were discussing how confusing this is and concluding that Jo, my employee, needs a nickname.  As her surname is Millington, my other employee suggested we call her Millie.  I said "yeah we should definately call you Millie".  Jo replied with "Millie was my cat's name and she died today" before looking like she ( Read more... )

My secondary school English teacher has just friended me on facebook.  My status is "should have known what this year'd be like when the first hour involved seeing OAPs stripping!"  So glad she can see how the Newstead years have paid off!

I guess I should have known what 2010 would have in store when I spent the first hour of the new decade watching OAPs stripping.  I seriously didn’t believe that 2010 could be as crazy as 2009 but here we are with the first month completed and it is already far more bizarre than the whole of the Noughties put together.

On New Year’s Eve, as is ( Read more... )

Thanks for the photo.  I'd like to reassure you that the delay in replying is due to me being in meetings all day rather than me hugging the toilet bowl after a glimpse at your pic.

Ah so you're a journalist!  That would explain the excellent use of commas.  I had noted that as a point in favour of you being sane.  With both my parents being ( Read more... )

Haven't posted here for ages but what happened to me this week is so crazy it needs to be documented.  Went to the museum party on Tues and got really drunk on wine coz I never drink it and it was £1. I hit my colleague Jo in the face and laughed about it for too long while he was standing there. Joanna (my employee) and I were more drunk than ( Read more... )

I knew Eva and I would make great travelling companions when I phoned her the night before we were due to fly out and discovered we shared the same sense of humour and the same capacity to faff.   Indeed we spent most of the holiday laughing and faffing!  If I hadn't lost or forgotten something, Eva had.  Eva would remind me to take my malaria ( Read more... )