If anybody has been trying to contact me over the last week, our internet is down at home, and I can't read emails to my yahoo account at work, so it's not that I am ignoring you.  If anybody particularly needs to contact me, you can email me at work ( Read more... )

I really have been rubbish at posting this year. But having just had my birthday, I thought I should update. Well, so far, out of my aims for the year, I've so far just about achieved one; I've given up smoking. I would like to point out now that my version of giving up smoking doesn't include events, so I will ignore any nagging at the G.  The ( Read more... )

I went to see King Lear last night at Stratford. Absolutely amazing.  Ian McKellen was superb, and even though I thought that the plays I saw with Patrick Stewart in the Autumn were good, this was even better. Trevor Nunn directed it, and it also starred Sylvester McCoy as the fool.  That was the last of my tickets for the complete works, and ( Read more... )

Dave and I have just got back from a couple of days away.  Due to Dave not having a passport, we gave up on the Prague idea, and instead went to the Peak district.  We drove up to Baslow in Derbyshire on Tuesday, where Dave lived from the age of 5 to 12. Had a fantastic lunch, went and saw somebody Dave knew when he was little (her husband use to ( Read more... )

I have a job offer. With KPMG.

I'll hopefully be starting at the beginning of April. I'm really pleased, because they are meant to be fantastic to work for, and I really liked the people who interviewed me. And the work should be interesting (even though I imagine many of you find it hard to believe tax can ever be interesting). Basically, it's a ( Read more... )

As of 5.30pm yesterday, I am unemployed. Sadly, I seem to be missing one of the perks, as I was up at 7am to go to an interview, and I have to be in Leamington by 9.30am tomorrow.  Obviously, I've got a new email address, as I can no longer use my work one it is: sallyfrew at yahoo dot com.

I am being made redundant on Wednesday. My firm is offering me a good package, so I'll have 3 months to find another job.  I'm quite cheerful at the moment; I'll miss working here as I really like the people, and the location is good for shopping etc, but if I am honest I was getting bored, as I haven't had nearly enough to do recently, and I need ( Read more... )

By the end of this year, I intend:

To have a much improved house - watertight, redecorated, de-cluttered, clean and tidy. Our roof is leaking, again. I woke up on Saturday morning at 3.45 to the sound of a waterfall in my bathroom. That was water falling from the ceiling to the floor. We're claiming on the insurance, as it looks like we need a new ( Read more... )

Dave and I are hard up at the moment. To the extent that I am looking at my bank account and am trying to work out how I can afford to buy Dave his Christmas present. As for the fact that one of Dave's friends is getting married in Eygpt next month, and we were going to go to the wedding, and have our first proper holiday since our honeymoon ( ( Read more... )

The Winter's tale was brilliant.  The costumes and direction were spot on, the set was cool (especially when it rained), the bear was great (finally seen what is probably the most famous stage direction of all time), the acting was good, and it was all in all a thoroughly enjoyable three hours.

Given that it is friday afternoon, a meme.

Stolen from ( Read more... )