Jobs List

A week off work to make significant inroads into my rapidly growing list of jobs & tasks. When the holiday forms were submitted I had this floating week unaccounted for, all other weeks that coincided with school holiays were rejected and there is little point having a week off to be by yourself with few plans. But if I had to have a week off when I really didn't want one maybe it would be wise that it coincided with EJT's return to school so I could provide practical support at one of the most stressful weeks of the school year.

Since then (it was over ten months ago) the details of M.O.C. (management of change) have been confirmed. This week will provide me with time to prepare and write my CV & expressions of interest form, whilst also allowing me to get my head into the right place and complete all those niggling jobs.

I also required quite a few week-ends off during September & October and a week-off made it easier. Of course I wasn't doing the off-duty at this point, now it's easier to manipulate my shifts so that they are equally beneficial to both the hospital and myself.

So I start the week with something low key; some shopping, registering with a new GP in Stone and making a joint appointment to talk fertility. Then back home to start the great clear out (draws & cupboards) and establishing some sort of order. It may take some time?

Shit List

Katie Price / Jordan

Will someone please starve her

of the oxygen of publicity

Hangover

"I ain't never drinking again ..."

The Hokey-Cokey

Clearly the last fortnight of hokey-cokey shifts (in out / in out) have not suited me. I've been short tempered, irritable, irritating, poor company and all in all a bit of a grump. I proportion blame on all that is going on …

Previously all to well documented and sure to be the subject of much writing to come?

I very much like ...

Chuck Ragan / Sam Russo / Jimmy Islip / Helen Chambers

Speacialist Subject Records Four Way Split LP

There's Paracetamol in Pineapple

Today I felt unnecessarily irritable and tired; combine this with a head-ache arriving and a sense of righteous indignation. In a grumpy mood I was ripe for a dust-up, so the lady in Tesco denying my purchase of pain-relief was always going to get it.

“You're only allowed three items containing paracetamol, I can't sell you this!”

As far as I could see up to this point I had only purchased fruit & vegetables and knew I only had ONE packet of paracetamol in my trolley. Despite my protests she still insisted that she shoudn't, couldn't and wouldn't sell it me, which brought the supervisor over alerted by the lengthy queue swiftly developing behind me.

At my suggestion she eventually checked my receipt & purchases to that point and saw that right enough whilst I had indeed only one lone box of Paracetamol in my trolley the checkout operator had swiped it through thrice.

Once again no apology offered, just …“Well you can't be too careful can you?” as a statement of justification. “You can't can you … must remember to check my receipt!”

Although if I was going to do myself in I certainly wouldn't chose an overdose of Paracetamol and I certainly don't think I'd be buying £50 of fresh fruit & veg, I may have depressive tendencies but I'm not wasteful!

Tall Story

As 2011 the transfer window draws top a close, at almost the very last minute it is announced that Peter Crouch is joining Stoke City FC*; a record ten million pound signing and adding significant height to the already giants (size wise) of the Premier League

I wonder what Abbey (Clancy, as was) is going to think of the Potteries? From the pictures I've seen online one thing is for sure she's going to have to buy a coat (… and some trousers … and a jumper … and a bobble-hat) I look forward to seeing them around Stoke, shopping at Longton Tesco's, grabbing a kebab at Eastern Delight, wandering round Trentham Gardens.

* Along with Cameron Jerome from Birmingham, Wilson Palacios from Tottenham, Matthew Upson from West Ham, Daniel Bachmann from AKA Austria and Jonathan Woodgate from Tottenham; but they don't generate the same headlines.