november19 posted:

so, Professor...did you sign?

lol. No, I evaded that one. She went home with what was quite possibly permanent marker over most of the rest of her though. Hooray for drunk Glaswegian teenagers!!!

*runs by, posts quickly*

azonei posted:

just had a very interesting telephone interview for IT Services Manager... am a little surprised I managed to get this far in the selection process, but now I have to wait another few weeks to see if I made it to the next stage - wish me luck everyone!

nearly fell off me chair in shock yesterday - I got an email (on a Sunday!!) from the company; apparently they were happy with my phone interview, so now I've been selected to attend a full day of face-to-face interviews, psychometric tests, & a whole host of other delights!!!

the only drawback is it'll be a long drive, cos the interviews are being held in cheltenham!!! (from East London, that'll be one helluva drive...)

you're telling me maybee!!! I had to run off to have a cuppa, to calm meself down!!!

Tea is very calming and sedentary

Standard British weather returns, rain and lots of it!

fingers crossed for Azonei!

azonei posted:

I nearly fell off me chair in shock yesterday - I got an email (on a Sunday!!) from the company; apparently they were happy with my phone interview, so now I've been selected to attend a full day of face-to-face interviews, psychometric tests, & a whole host of other delights!!!

WELL DONE YOU!!!!!

When is the second interview? And GOOD LUCK!!!!!

B13 posted:

We've just run out of Studio Marmite (i.e. I've just scoffed the last bit)

This is NOT good. I may have to leave the building...

what a disaster!

Has anyone else had probs getting into the consulate and other threads of late? I hit refresh, but it doesn't want to know and I have to give up!

Good luck with the interview azonei

Hmmm, time for elevenses and a ginger nut or two.

A few times, I've tried to get in and have been met by a lovely blank white page...

So I've gone somewhere else and then come back.

[hint]

WE NEED ANOTHER MEET UP!!!!!

[/hint]

I AGREE B13

That's a scary though icklekitty - i hadn't even thought of that!!!

Update on Tantrum - surgery was a little more complex than anticipated. Currently staying with parents (to avoid stairs), painkillers are knocking her out and to boot, she's aching from the crutches. Overall mood??? Not very happy.

ruth, please pass on our love to tants, i know how surgery can be, especially when it lasts a bit (read: a lot!) longer than planned!!!
I'm sure everyone wishes her well in her recovery!!!

& a nice cuppa tea/coffee would sound great!!! I'm supposed to finish the interviews around 4pm on 24th (next wednesday!!!) & will probably be a gibbering wreck by the end of it all!!! definitely not relishing the drive home afterwards...
how long does it take to get to/from cardiff from cheltenham? & then back to London?

I've passed along the well wishes to our current invalid. To be honest, i've 'enjoyed' the 3 operations on my wrist; well not the operations themselves lol, but the convalescing. Hey, time off work is always a good thing.....

Azonei - i see that yr driving. According to google tis 2-2.5 hrs from cheltenham to London. From cardiff to london is typically 3 hrs but guess it depends if you like to put yr foot down (same as from cheltenham). Cheltenham to Cardiff about 1.5 hrs.

All things considered being that you've got to get to London and I'm off work; it prob makes sense for me to come to Cheltenham.
Could drive, but there is the distinct possibility I'd get lost or i could get the train. Alternatively I've looked at motorway services info. Would be enroute to m4 for you and all i've got to do is drive up to the next exit and head backwards......

ok, plans for tonight is decide how to spend a lot of money that i haven't got on some artists prints that are limited edition (only 10) and signed. I've wanted to indulge for some time now .... however i've decided that one would look kinda lonely on my wall; so i'm considering 3 of them (8 different ones avail). So the question is do I buy on the basis of a pic of the print or wait a week and a half before driving to the gallery in the lake district and risk not getting the ones i want??? Decisions, decisions huh!!!

EDIT - yes wraith, be a dear and do that. I'm also charging you with the delivery of... but remember, she won't be happy if the tea goes cold



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Hi....I resided in Derby with my grandparents as a child,
where they made Rolls Royce engines and Royal derby Crown China......Derbyshire is just beautiful with its famous dales and its countryside and the Derbyshire moorlands..

My grandparents received a letter from the Queen, as they were married for 60 years...

......from my nu- Bronte novella [u][/u]'Fanny reads her 'Sence and Sensibility', and Natalie reads her like a book in the NEXT ROOM.' '....[i][/i] And with a playful tone in her words. 'Must I pour out the tea, Papa'. Papa was impressed with her voice, look and air. He smiled upon her, ' My dear Fanny'. A tray was bought of Worcester porcelain. The bourgeois cosiness and domesticity revisited.

...another scone and a cup of Twinings tea....Earl Grey or English Breakfast ...and for dinner I'll watch 'Eastenders' and have a 'bangers and mash'.