…and on that bombshell
The observant among you will have noticed I haven’t blogged in a while. There are a few reasons for this, which are outlined below. Firstly, though, can I say I’m disappointed that I haven’t been inundated with “please post a blog post” emails. Shame on you, my wide & varied readership, although it seems that at least one reader of this blog has been doing her best to get my attention. Well, not just mine, but you’ll see at the end of the post…
So – why no blog. Firstly, the good reason(s) – we’ve been really busy at work, building up the business, and I’ve been working a lot in the evenings. When I haven’t been working I’ve been sleeping. Get me, the crazy stop-out.
Also, the camera I like to use to take pictures of WIPs to post went AWOL after Steve went to conference. I only found it in the back of his car a week and a half ago, and still have to track down the battery charger. So it’s iPhone photos only for the moment, it seems, which is a lot less stylish & good-looking than pretty much any “proper” blogger you care to mention. If I got a chance to take photos when it isn’t either dingy or dark it might help, but I’m home at dusk and weekends are traditionally briefly sunny on Sunday mornings when the faithful are in church (can you tell I’m reaching now?).
Other reasons – we’ve had a series of mini disasters happen, the extent of which leads me to think that either we haven’t been praying hard enough or one of use broke a mirror. Or maybe it’s just Our Turn. Here we go:
- I went away for a relaxing weekend to Cambridge to meet my friend. 2 miles from the B&B, the car broke. The AA brought me & the car back to Wigan, where the car remains in the car of a car mechanic who periodically sucks his teeth at us when we call and ask awkward quetions like what’s wrong with it, how much will it be, and when will it be fixed. The workshop I went to Cambridge for was fab, though, and it was good to see Debbie.
- Car troubles paled into insignificance when, half way home, I found out that Debbie’s Grandad had passed away that afternoon.
- After the hour and a half waiting for the AA on Friday, my cold, which I had almost shaken off, came back with a vengeance. Enough to make me miserable, but not enough to make me stay in bed.
- The car troubles didn’t stop there, though. Our employee’s car broke in a similarly bad way over that same weekend. So we are down to one car that can be used to visit clients between 3 of us. His, at least (in the same garage) appears to be closer to being fixed and he has some ball-park figures for fixing it for him to worry about.
- On Monday we discovered that the basement workshop at work (formerly known as The Server Room) had collected a centimetre of water in one corner from an apparently external source. United Utilities have been good so far, although after one leak-finder visit and one hole in the ground, the leak has not yet been located & fixed. Fortunately we have more space than we need, although, with the amount of work we have on at the moment, not a great deal more.
- This evening, I looked up from tweeting while in the kitchen to see a fairly large mouse waving some of Bruiser’s food at me from near the back door. Bruiser, true to form, ran in the other direction when I chased it into the back bedroom. It later left the building (or at least, the part of it we can see) through the utility room.
Apparently, these things are sent to try us. I take consolation in the fact that in the work we do, we are solving problems similar to these for other people on a daily basis. And we do it without sucking our teeth.
And now, if you play this blog post backwards at 72rpm, you will hear exactly what I think of the latest political shitstorm to hit West Lancashire. If I spell it out here, even briefly and at a high level, I will almost certainly be threatened with expulsion again. Happy to be a member of The Labour Party. Happy, happy, happy.
(I think if you hold it up to the light as well, you can also see the relatively innocuous things I wrote, and then deleted on the same grounds, those being that they aren’t really very innocuous at all)
Back to the knitting, next!!