Well, I did fall off the Lent Wagon for Purim. I made a Gentile version of Hamentashen (of necessity not authentic because I have never eaten them before and all the recipes I could find were American and used biscuit dough rather than the flaky pastry which is used in Israel). Obviously, I couldn’t bring in Purim biscuits and then refuse to et them! However, I didn’t indulge in the Purim excess of alcohol indulgence :-) And neither did any of the rest of us – largely because Paul didn’t tell us about that bit of Purim boisterousness! They were very nice biscuits, I must say. I might write them up on the food blog!
You may remember that Freyja took redundancy from her job at DLA Piper a week or so ago. She’s been off to register as an official Bludger at the Dole Bludgers' office. I laid in a supply of squishy tomatoes so we could hiss at her and throw the tomatoes when we saw her passing in the street. All was progressing satisfactorily.
Alas – we have been thwarted in our hissing and throwing endeavours.
She was, for reasons best known to herself, browsing on the Sheffield Forum site one day, earlier this week. Suddenly, she espied a small advert from the people who used to maintain the computers when she worked at Lann, before DLA Piper. She emailed the bloke, asking how she should apply. Only 8 hours a week, but 8 hours is better than no hours. She got an email back almost immediately saying that if she wanted the job it was hers. She went, later that afternoon, to discuss this with the owner of the little business. During the conversation, he upped the pounds per hour a little bit – and increased the hours to two days a week! Not a bad outcome, for the outlay of one speculative email!
She’s also emailed the employment agency which operates in the same building that Lann used to be in. They’ve got a couple of two day jobs too that they’re going to put her forward for. And she’s busy applying for lots of other two and three day jobs too.
So no throwing squishy tomatoes at this particular non-bludger :-(
Lindsey, Ian, Stella and Tony are back from their jaunt around New Zealand. They seem to have all had a good time and to eaten lots of yummy food and to have drunk lots of yummy wine (at least the wine drinkers drank lots of yummy wine). Lindsey’s blog is at http://grahyde.blogspot.com/2009/03/off-to-nz-with-stella-and-tony.html Alas, Stella and Tony are now showing a distinct disinclination to get back on a plane, which will make it difficult for them to get to the UK in the summer. Lindsey and I are pondering this. A packet boat might do it. Or a space shuttle. Maybe even a Tardis – although Tardises seem to be unreliable if you have a specific destination in mind!. Alternatively, stupendously gorgeous, late spring and early summer weather here, coupled with tiresomely dreary late autumn and early winter weather there might drive them with enthusiasm into the arms of a luxury air carrier. In the meantime, the planning for the new bathroom, courtesy in part of the late Cousin Beryl, carries on apace, and the investigations into stair lifts, collapsible wheelchairs and other reduced-mobility friendly apparatus continue, in case they do come and against the day when The Builder and/or I might need these facilities ourselves
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