Monthly Archives: September 2007

Due to a burst watermain somewhere nearby, I’ve had no running water since I got up this morning. This is somewhat annoying when you’ve got several loads of washing to do, and are in need of a shower.

I was going to head out for a bike ride, but I’m not going to do that whilst there’s a good chance I won’t be able to shower afterwards.

Update: The water returned eventually, both from the tap and from the sky.

A cheque for £160 fell through my door today courtesy of the Portman/Nationwide merger. Now I could stick it in the bank and use it to pay for the other half of the TriCross, or I could put it towards a new iPod. I’m toying with getting a 160GB iPod Classic at the moment, however despite slagging them off initially due to the high price and low capacity, I find myself strangely drawn to a 16GB iPod Touch. Fortunately for my wallet, neither of them are available in the shops at the moment.

It’s Booth weather.

After successfully avoiding such tortures for fourteen years, I finally had to attend some mandatory training today. Starting from 08:30 we covered such delights at "Clinical Governance", "Health and Safety", "Waste Handling", "Adult and Child Protection", and "Infection Control", finally escaping back into the real world at around 3pm.

As you can imagine, it was quite possibly one of the most boring days I’ve ever had the misfortune of having to put up with.

To make the day even more exciting, I’m spending the evening charging batteries ready to take photos at the Avon Scout Network camp this weekend. At least there will be a bar there run by Bath Ales, so the beer will be good.

Apparently we’ve decided to back the current pathetic pay deal. I’m fairly surprised by this as I thought more people would have been sensible enough to reject a below-inflation pay offer.

It looks like we might all end up going on strike this Autumn.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Unions back ‘co-ordinated’ action

The UNISON ballot as to whether we should accept the payrise on offer closes on Thursday, I suspect the answer will be "No".

My ribs are playing up again today. Even worse, some lowlife scum had drunk all the coffee whilst I was out of the office last week and didn’t replace it, so I haven’t had my morning coffee yet.

I have finally submitted my AfC grievance though, so something might start to happen with that in the next few weeks.

Things have mostly healed up now, there’s just an annoying ache left at times. However I’m not going to risk screwing everything up again by riding a bike just yet.

I gave up smoking 11 years ago today.