Monday
14Jan
Start as you mean to go on? Nooooooo!
Monday, January 14, 2008
What a great start to the year. I've spent the last week or so feeling like shite. Fortunately, the pain and discomfort are receding and I've actually made it to the keyboard. Now, if I could just persuade my head to follow I'd be back in the saddle again!
It's going to be an unsettled time over the next few months because Sandra has begun the process of actively looking for another position down south. She did consider a senior civil service post in London and the extra £30k was tempting but in the end the reality of higher housing costs and daily commuting would have eaten into most of the extra (net) income. On the other hand an immediate uplift of £15k a year to her pension looked rather attractive.
What we really want is an extra £30k, a nice little town in the south east where property prices are reasonable and to be close to the sea. Is that too much to ask? Well, yes it is actually :(
Damn!
And just to depress me even more I've had my camera nicked by a young woman that Sandra allowed in to make an 'emergency' phone call. No point in reporting it, although I suppose we'll need a crime number for the insurance claim. It wasn't an expensive camera but it's just the thought that this scumbag couldn't keep her hands off other people's property. Fortunately I was feeling so unwell when this happened that I wasn't able to work myself into my usual homicidal frenzy. Now I just feel like shrugging my shoulders but I'd be sorely tempted to give the little bitch a slap if I bumped into her. Grrr!
It's going to be an unsettled time over the next few months because Sandra has begun the process of actively looking for another position down south. She did consider a senior civil service post in London and the extra £30k was tempting but in the end the reality of higher housing costs and daily commuting would have eaten into most of the extra (net) income. On the other hand an immediate uplift of £15k a year to her pension looked rather attractive.
What we really want is an extra £30k, a nice little town in the south east where property prices are reasonable and to be close to the sea. Is that too much to ask? Well, yes it is actually :(
Damn!
And just to depress me even more I've had my camera nicked by a young woman that Sandra allowed in to make an 'emergency' phone call. No point in reporting it, although I suppose we'll need a crime number for the insurance claim. It wasn't an expensive camera but it's just the thought that this scumbag couldn't keep her hands off other people's property. Fortunately I was feeling so unwell when this happened that I wasn't able to work myself into my usual homicidal frenzy. Now I just feel like shrugging my shoulders but I'd be sorely tempted to give the little bitch a slap if I bumped into her. Grrr!