Status update

My working contract at the supermarket has been extended. I’m now working the Mon, Tues & Wed night next week, and the same the week after to help with the rush between Xmas and New Year. Just as well really, as I’ve missed half the days I should have worked due to foot injury or sickness. Dave, my line manager, tells me he has been greatly impressed by my attitude and aptitude and that I’ll be first in the line if any permanent jobs become available. It’s not hard to impress them to be honest. If you can string three words together into a coherent sentence, or open a box of mince pies without cutting yourself, you’re doing better than most of the people on my shift.

It’s good to have the computer back. Part of my prolonged absence from the World Of Blogs this month has been the returning malady of my hard drive. I tried to start it up last week, only to be greeted by a green screen, a high-pitched whistle and a blown fuse. I know nowt about PCs so had to place my trust and my equipment in the hands of Spotty Garth from ‘The Computer Clinic.’ Garth looks the way Stephen Merchant would look if he was three inches taller and two stone heavier. He also giggles a lot, and has a ten-foot high poster of Gollum on the wall behind the counter. He’s extraordinarily weird, but he repaired my computer in a week and took fifty quid cash for his trouble, so as far as I’m concerned he can marry my sister.

Ciao

RC 18-12-08
1345 GMT