@The Pentacle Queen,
I will say a prayer for your students.
@smorgs,
Quote:Morning peeps! Am I always the first one up?
Sometimes I am up before I get out of bed.
@The Pentacle Queen,
Quote:I just signed a contract to work in Hong Kong for a year. AH.
Dont forget to wave at Oz from there.
@Ionus,
Ionus wrote:
Quote:I just signed a contract to work in Hong Kong for a year. AH.
Dont forget to wave at Oz from there.
I won't! Thanks for all the help on the teaching thread!
@The Pentacle Queen,
Well Queenie--I am wondering about the white slave traffic. It is China after all.
Young ladies are often tempted to go abroad with promises and contracts. If I was advising you I would suggest you call in at the Foreign Office and check out the employer with them.
It was here:
http://able2know.org/topic/144410-2
but I just realised it wasn't Ionus posting on it. I think there might have been a similar related one. x
Smorgsie must be out enjoying herself.
Probably something involving alcohol.
@McTag,
You mean mixing with chaps whose aesthetic taste is in inverse proportion to the number of units of alcolohol they have consumed.
Boswell reports the King of England remarking about how ugly one woman was by saying that one of his pals had shagged her as a penance.
Just got up to make my granddaughter a drink, and saw the scurrilous post about me. Tis a misconception to assume I'm a drinker - I'm not!
I drink maybe once a year, twice if there is a big event (like a wedding), but other than that - I don't. Can't handle drink at all. Besides, women put on beer-goggles too, and it would be un-becoming to have a shame-shag at my age.
Finished my managerial escapades on Friday, can't say I'm sad, it's tough having 40 staff to look after, it's like being an agony aunt and a commandant at the same time. I don't think I did too bad, only 2 staff off sick and one resignation, considering the state of things...
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I actually wrote more - but had to delete it, things are bad in my line of work, much worse than you think. I'm frustrated that I can't write about it.
We undertook a massive survey recently, to see how we were managing our work/life balance, some of us refused to take part. When the results came in, it identified stress as number one. Then we were asked to submit quick, simple recipes that our colleagues could make when they get in from work - well, I ask you! The nerve! We were fuming! But if you invite us like that, it's an opportunity not to be missed. My entry was Patronage Pie, can't remember all the ingredients, but I thought it was delicious. My glamorous assistant, Darryl put one in for a Pot-Noodle butty, it was very funny.
On Monday we are opening 'the stress box' - a sealed box, inviting us to post comments on what the main causes of stress at work are...
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@smorgs,
Work is the cause of stress at work. The mind at war with the body.
@spendius,
Patronage Pie, I like it.
When my sister-in-law went to see her boss to talk about overwork and stress, she was advised to "write a list- learn to proritise things"
Thanks a bunch. She is actually the list-writingest person on the planet already.
(Should that be Patronisation? They might not geddit. But I'm sure they will. No more promotion for you this year. About that, you should read Chris Mullin's Diaries)
@McTag,
Patronage Pie is a fit enough expression to go into the Urban Dictionary and become known with use as PP. What it means I beg leave to avoid mentioning so that this thread isn't despoiled by any crude jests or subtle innuendos.
Pot-Noodle butty is not in the same class. Cream-cracker stew would at least have given the men a fighting chance.
Ye Gods- Kippers? That's smoked fish.
I presume therefore she (surely not "he") dries her gossamer flimsies over a smouldering oak-chip fire.
With habits like that, should be easy to identify among Manc civil servants, and exposed in the News of the World.
If ever you need proof of Media's obsessions you had only to have seen Sky News and BBC News all day today. And yesterday. How they are going to stop Anna Botting sounding like a speak your weight machine with her deep-felt concern for the victims of sin and crime I don't know. And the moving "BREAKING NEWS" strip along the bottom of the TV screen became embarrassing after it had gone through n-thousand times blazoning the self same phrase Anna so lovingly repeated maybe five hundred times.
But there was a brief mention of the thousands of hospitals, hospices, old-folk's homes, dispensaries, schools, colleges and relief agencies in underprivileged countries that the Catholic Church sponsors and organises throughout the world. So we ought to be grateful for that.
@spendius,
Spendy, how have you got time to drive your van (have you heard the one about a ten-ton Thames Trader with a turquoise tarpaulin driving between Todmorden and Tintwistle? I've forgotten the middle bit now) if you watch BBC and Sky News all day?
@McTag,
It is a special event Mac. Very special in my opinion. And I have learned a great deal from watching it closely.
The reason I have time is because I only do deliveries to punters to give me a break from offices and to have a look round.
I remember a Chief Constable who went out on patrol on Sat. nights because he liked feeling collars every now and then.
@spendius,
Spendy, have you read any Gary Shteyngart? I like him, my pal's not keen.
What about this new guy, Frantzen? I've not read him yet.
@McTag,
No I haven't Mac. I've never heard of them actually. Everything's been said and the ones who said it best are all well known.
I'm not saying they are no good. I don't pass judgment on stuff I haven't read.
I just finished Wuthering Heights. 3rd time round. The Smith and Elder 1873 edition which lies open for you just as you like. It's a bit flyblown mind you. There's Agnes Grey tacked on which I might try sometime. In between times I'm reading Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, ( a bit scary), consulting Complete Works as I go, and Boswell's Life of Johnson, also in a 19th century edition. But what with the Pope, and the football and cricket, the horseracing, the NFL, the usual offices and one thing and another I've been getting behind in my studies. And A2K. I almost forgot.
I took Auberon Waugh's Literary review whilst he was editor and from the reviews in that modern books didn't look up to much. Too feminised I thought. No King Solomon's Mines type of thing. No piss taking. Everything dead serious. As if James Joyce had never lived.
The Dingles in Emmerdale are lower-middle-class compared to that lot Emily set up for your consideration.