Official announcement
Today it was announced officially that I am leaving the Willows in an email to all surgeries.
Entries by ALB1970
The call
With my day set out to be at Birchwood all day and Mommy’s day so busy that any glitch could bring it all crashing down I left the house followed by her and Reagan heading to an orthodontist appointment. As I got onto the M6 my Carphone rang it was Jamie… “The school just called, […]
Beginning of the end?
For a long time now it has been frustrating not to be involved in the management side of my job and watch the erosion of everything I built and supported over the last 13 years by the new regime. When one of the “fabulous four now three” wanted a video chat about a work related […]
Plywood grades
Having worked in my shed all weekend using the plywood I bought a few weeks ago it became apparent to me that the quality was not as good as I would have liked for my bench and something I need to educate myself on because in my opinion I have done a reay good job […]
Wet Saturday
The rain just lately has been non stop, well thats how its felt and when I got up I was hoping to be able to walk Billy and get some wood cutting done in the garden but one look out of the window to see it pouring with rain yet again dashed that idea. Although […]
Resignation accepted
Today, after swapping our Internet router yesterday I was experiencing low speeds which was annoying because the Draytek 2865 is a far superior unit the the proprietary the one BT supplied. I spent the morning troubleshooting why we were barely getting 7 or 8 Mb and not the 140+ we should be getting but became […]
An extra day
February the 29th a leap year gives me an extra day to love my family and for me that means a lot. I want as many opportunities to be there for all of them as possible, I just spoke to Jamie who was laying in bed in a hotel in london after going out to […]
The first 15 Years
We had to be apart for our 15th anniversary for one reason an invitation to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament for a party that I would not have allowed Jamie to miss even on an important date in our calendar. An opportunity like this may never happen again, we will be together tomorrow and […]
Could we make you stay?
Got a call from my boss late afternoon to say they were sorry to recieve my letter of resignation and is there anything they could say to change my descision, which I replied straightaway with the fact that it had been coming for a while and I felt it was time to move on so […]
Offer accepted
Can we talk at 1:30…yeh OK Do you want this job or what? Yeh I think I do! I’ll send you something to sign OK Er yeh Was basically (paraphrased) how my day went, I got offered a job that in all honesty I have been sold all along and I sort said fuck it […]