Thursday 17 May 2007

Life is simple

Popping in and out today...of the office, not of anything else.

My first EVER golf lesson this morning - I got 15 minutes free as part of joining the club. Surprisingly it was actually quite useful. Although the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I'm playing a round this afternoon with a potential future work/employment partner bloke. That makes it sound vaguely 'worky' rather than just play, doesn't it? So I shall see if the advice I got can be successfully put into practice.

I have been trawling the websites and contacting recruitment consultants today. I need to be 'out there' looking. Although I am enjoying this life, I think in reality it is just a holiday. I'm in the third week and getting itchy feet...that's about normal, I guess.

When you break things down they can become very simple. Take jobs and golf...you only have to get two things right for both to be brilliant. In golf it's distance and direction. With jobs it's the right role in the right location. Trawling through ft.com (other job sites are available) I've seen loads of jobs in the right location that I don't want to do, and loads of great sounding jobs in the wrong places. Only one was a great sounding job in the right place. I am waiting for a call back on that one...well there was one other that was interesting in a fantastic location but not our current one. I'd up and move there tomorrow for this job (think a long way south west but before you'd get wet...) - not just me involved though.

It's time to go public with the plan for the potential combined OAMC/40th birthday drink. I say potential because it looks like not many will be able to make it. So here's the plan:
Gatwick (don't know exactly where yet - any suggestions gratefully accepted), Wednesday 23rd May, 7pm...e-mail me if you can come.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Moose,

I can understand you are getting itchy feet. The whole thing about working is that when we are at work, we dream of not being there. And when we don't have a job to go to, we realise how much we need it! Catch-22, in just about everything in life.

You have loads of time to make the right decision, so no sweat. As you say, moving away is probably not an option, not unless Mrs Moose is happy with that.

HOW I would love to buy you a drink for your 40th birthday! However, I will be stuck in Glasgow - I really hope some of guys manage to meet up this time.

Please keep organising the OAMC's in London, because one of these days, I'm gonna be at one!

C xx

Anonymous said...

Apparently you have to look at where you want the ball to go. This would ideally be not through the Club Director's windscreen.

How's the new car by the way?

...regarding itchy feet, it is all too easy to imagine that you've got them...if you feel that you are enjoying yourself too much, it's natures way of giving you guilt for taking things slowly and wanting to be happy for a change.

Or you've had your golf shoes on too long and the leather has got damp.

Oh dear. I thought my boss was having a bad day. The strange noises I can hear from outside are the sound of him not caring where his balls are going.

International Badger Rescue to the rescue
love
hazel
x

Anonymous said...

You're right Moose, life is simple and all the better for it. Just keep looking for "the" job - when you least expect it the right one will turn up in the right place. Unless you can persuade Mrs M to up sticks and move to the sticks, in which case it already has.

By the way, there's a programme on Channel 4 tonight (other commercial TV channels are available) called Embarrassing Illnesses. Looking at what they're planning to cover, I think there's something for everyone ....
"Programme One - piles, flatulence, athlete's foot, testicular cancer, skin tags, inverted nipples and vaginal discharge."

So, whether your balls are going in the wrong direction, you have itchy feet or dodgy nipples (see previous entries ...) - 8.30 C4 is where you need to be! Have they left anythign for Progamme 2 I wonder?

Anonymous said...

Last night it was the magoie.

Tonight I have just been scared half to death by two swifts (not swallows apparently) who just came swooping rather fast, through my door! Just recovered, and one came back!

They've gorn now, but the magpie is keeping an eye out to let me know if they return.

My colleague says they are back early this year. From wherever they've been I guess!

tweet
love
hazel
x

Anonymous said...

Am i right in thinking we are minus a gabster? Have i missed her whilst flitting thru the messages over the last few days?

Does she have a note?
xx

Anonymous said...

Grayshuss me we are a very quiet lot lately.

I suppose there are no 'do's' on today anywhere? The only news I've had is that two of our chaps have had a massive punch-up this morning...and I don't mean the sort with bits of orange peel and cheap brandy...

So, wass goin on billee?

It's lovely Friday! Moose is 40 next week! Shirley we can find something jolly somewhere...?????

A Friday Pome

The rain it raineth down and down
I cannot help but wear a frown

The mist it rolleth cross the hill
I cannot help it makes me ill

The sun it shineth I cannot see
The clouds they hide it's rays from me

I know it's there I reach up high
To where my dreams are,
Yes, the sky

Well. That's just gonna have to do for now. I don't really have that much to work with at the moment...
love
hazel
x

Jo said...

yay for me.... I finally won on the chair issue.....
After having a doctor's visit and tingly toes which I don't believe are a very good sign my nasty boss is panicking....

I emailed this

I’m just emailing to inform you that I went to see my doctor yesterday as I have been suffering with pains in my lower back and hip, along with shooting pains down my right leg. My doctor has advised that if this does not get better I will need to be referred to a physiotherapist. She asked what kind of chair I used at work and suggested that I look into finding a more supportive chair to use until I go on maternity leave otherwise I may not be able to continue working due to the pain.

I know that my H&S Risk assessment which was carried out 6 weeks ago, identified a more supportive chair, has this progressed any further?

Slightly exaggerating the truth and then got this in reply from the H&S lady :o)

Hi Jo, You manager has rung my manager in a panic about 10 minutes ago so I think she finally understands ‘cos he gave her a telling off and she said it had only been 2 weeks. I hope that now she will get you what you need. Any further problems let me know.

In the words of Hannibal - I love it when a plan comes together! Not that hannibal, the A Team one...Far less sinister

Yay for me :o) Jo

PS Meetings at 9:30 and 10:30 today - how very dare they, on a Friday as well!

Anonymous said...

Jo, that's excellent news! Tingly toes are not something that you should be needing to suffer from in your delicate condition...I think you should have a virtual glass of pink shampoo to celebrate...see if you can drink yourself into a virtual delicate condition too...

Moose has itchy feet. I wonder if a new chair might be the answer for him...

Just down from where I live, and on which I sit when at the beach, has been awarded a Blue Flag.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6665965.stm

Ridiculous, some of the stuff you can be proud of ain't it?

The future's so bright
love
hazel
x

Anonymous said...

Mornin' all
Just two weeks to go in my current job and I'm feeling bright today. So bright, I've come over all poetical (but will never try to match HL for pomes).

Down in Bath the sun is out
I could almost dance and shout.
But can’t do that ‘cos I’m at work
And I don’t want to look a burk.

The boss is out ‘till after tea
So here on Moose’s blog I’ll be.
Before she’s back I must finish filing
So I can end the day by smiling.

Hope you’re all quite well and chipper
Moose, Hazel, Jo and her nipper
And all you others whom I can’t mention
Or I’ll be here till I collect my pension …

How about a dunk at half past 10?
I’ll have some biscuits bought by then.
It’ll do no harm to indulge a tad -
Not every calorie is bad!

Good luck on Sunday to Lyndyloo
for a Tigers win to join their two.
And what about the other half?
For Saturday’s match I’m with Bath.

Mustn’t then ignore the footie
Oh, OK then … I have

TTFN

PS Jo - good news about the chair. tingly feet aren't good.

Anonymous said...

I am not a happy bunny today. Our house is on a private road on a park so the view from our front window is a field, then a wire fence and 3 of the most gorgeous horses you have ever seen. We love it! On the field we have seen bunnies, foxes, red deer, hedgehogs and a miriad of birds, butterflies, insects and best of all bats (I love 'em)! All this and just a mile away from the town centre. It really is amazing!

So on Wednesday I get home from work and cannot even drive up to my house as 2 huge portacabins were being delivered directly outside our house. Anyway it turns out that just a minutes walk away is a footbridge that goes over a river which is about 30 foot or so high. Some 'vandals' have demolished the walls either side and so directly outside our house is the nearest they can get to the bridge to repair it. To make things worse they have deposited a portaloo between the 2 portacabins. Now and apparently for the next 4 weeks we will look out onto 2 blue portacabins and a blue portaloo instead of the wildlife and grass. I phoned them and they cannot move the blasted things - at least I got a partial apology for the fact they did this without writing to advise us first. Even if they had of done that we wouldn't have been happy but would have had prior notice. So thanks Bolton Council - nice one!

There is a silver lining though as we had been considering moving but having spent 2 days with that lot stuck in front of the house has reminded us what it would be like living on a housing estate instead of on our little bit of paradise so I think we will put that on hold for now!

Sorry about that - just needed to get it off my chest.

Happy Friday to you all. I am escaping early to attend an open afternoon at youngest lad's school class - he handwrote the invitation so I couldn't refuse....

A x

Anonymous said...

Hey moose

I'm with chrissieS I'd love to have a drink with you for your 40th..but stuck with French customers in the borders. Again with Chrissie - keep organising, because I too, will pitch up in South east oneday!
Jo - you go girl..every pregnant woman is special, they are looking after a wee baby, who one day may find a cure for incurable illness, bring joy to a whole nation, may invent chocolate which makes fat fall off..you never know, so look after yourself and your precious bump.
Hazel, gr8 pome, good sentiments and did you know it's very lucky for swifts or swallows to build a nest in the eaves of your abode ( apart from if they build directly over the front door, and poo on your head)
Ana - Embarressing illnesses what a fab show- anal warts..my god!
Anna - we're missing a few...maybe all on hols in sunny barbados!

child is at a sleepover straight from school today, so me and MrC are going to Edinburgh for lunch and shopping..today, nice meal at home tonight and then lie in tomorrow..B L i s s!

speak to you later
Love
Caroline

Anonymous said...

oh, and hazel - swifts & swallows go to north africa for the winter, they stop off in majorca, we go there in October half term and there's great swarms of them.... then when we go to Majorca at eastertime, they are stopping off on their way back to UK. Beautiful.
hope that helps..Mr C told me this, and he says H E L L O O O! to you all
Cazzer

Anonymous said...

Good morning on this blustery Friday! Literally, sheets of rain this morning!

Jo - clever girl! Your boss deserves to be in a panic, she's a disgrace! My dear darling mother would say (if she could comment from the other side) "Jo, hen, she's just jealous of you" and I would go along with that. One-nil to Jo!!

Hazel, loved your wee poem. Love all your wee poems!

Ms S told me last night she thinks she should leave school. She just can't face her results from the recently taken Standard Grades (of course she thinks she has failed them all) and sees no point in going back for 5th year to sit the Highers, which she assumes she will fail. She knows that she is under no pressure from us with regard to "doing well". I really mean it when I say, I just want her to be happy. And healthy. And have lots of money!

Anyway, I think I have managed to head her off at the pass, by painting a picture of leaving school, joining the real world and discovering it ...... sucks! Let's face it, she has a whole lifetime of reality to look forward to! Or is it just me that sees it this way?!

Happy Friday everyone. Missing you Gaby, MWK, MfR, Sammie and all others missing without official leave!

C xx

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