Archive for October 2004

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sometimes my picture is on here, and sometimes it isn't – why?!

Oct

Oh my poor neglected blog. I can only say that I have no internet access at home and the hard drive is in for a major surgical procedure. Plus work has been absolutely CRAZY, have been loads of extra hours for the past few hellish weeks, and I’ve just had no time. Now that my giant funding proposal is over, and in for the bigwigs at the London Central Learning and Skills Council to decide whether or not we should get it, I can relax at bit. I have also been ordered by my manager to take Monday off as TOIL – hurrah! Sad news is that she is leaving at the end of this term, but it’s great for her as she got a promotional position at another college. And no I am not going to go for her job, this management level is probably more than I can handle anyway.

And because of all that stuff, I don’t even really have anything exciting to report. Oh, we have booked our caterer, and our marquee for the garden. Keep getting sucked in to purusing wedding magazines – must stop, they are full of advertisements only! Oh and the Wedding Show was such a waste of time (and entry fee), really just full of meringue dresses and expensive cakes and even more expensive honeymoons. Oh well. We got a free CD out of it. I think we don’t have to do anything else for a while, probably not till the new year.

Waiting to hear about Grace and Jason’s baby that was due about 2 weeks ago – hopefully didn’t end up in an induction but I await whatever the news!

Also eagerly awaiting Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, have tickets for a preview screening on the 7th November, and the premiere is in Leicester Square on the 9th. Ooh have been waiting for this movie for ages. And I was there the day the big fight scene in the fountains was shot, was great fun to watch from a distance in Hyde Park.

Better get on, I am at work, and although things are a bit quieter now, doesn’t mean it’s like the good old days when I could take off early safe in the knowledge that all was done and under control…

06

House prices show fresh vigour

Oct

I really hate picking a title for blog entries. So I’ve decided it’s BBC news headlines from now on, unless I become majorly inspired.

Having a rather hellish day as I ended up having to write a huge outcome/output/milestone plan for a £400,000 funding proposal (for a project with mental health services) even though it’s supposed to be partner-driven bid and not coming from us! What a headache. Thank god it’s over for today. The giant thing is due in 2 weeks today though, and there are a lot more sections to go…

Monday was great however – completely bountiful. I came home to my Amazon order of a new large Le Creuset stewing-type dish (massively on sale), Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook Jamie’s Dinners (which I am pretty impressed with, compared to the last one), and Nigella’s new one Feast (which unfortunately doesn’t look quite so good but I forgive her since I love her). And, I guess as Dena left that day for her Zoom flight home to Toronto, she left us a fab gift, that I was going to ask for for Christmas – kd lang’s new album of Canadian covers!! And we went to a wedding show the day before (which turned out to be a waste of an entry fee as it was all meringue dresses, expensive honeymoons, tuxedo rental and overpriced stationary) which for pre-booking the tickets I was supposed to get a free cd – and so that arrived too. Oh and I had managed to go shopping on my lunch hour and get a few items from Dorothy Perkins. All in all, a good consumer/consumption day :-) .

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