Argh!

I have just done a very long and ranty post about you-know-who who has annoyed me at work these past couple of years.

I was going to friends lock it, but I decided that for now at least, it should be private on account of the fact that arse as it can be, this is the only job I have at the moment.

Argh!

I have just done a very long and ranty post about you-know-who who has annoyed me at work these past couple of years.

I was going to friends lock it, but I decided that for now at least, it should be private on account of the fact that arse as it can be, this is the only job I have at the moment.

This isn't just food...

I am quite definitely at a loose end. Tottering heaps of paperwork poise on the edge of my desk calling for my attention, but it would be pointless and very probably self-defeating to tackle them until we know what’s gong on. Then it will be busy time with a capital BUSY.

I would normally work on the November payment run at this point, too, but one authority is about to pay us a large tranche of money and may get billed for it twice, compounding the initial error if I proceed too quickly on that front. Thus I am doing the only sensible thing: blogging.

I nipped out an hour or so ago to get some sarnies for lunch and it is clear that whilst it is still 2 months away, Christmas is looming large in the retail mind. In the bag with my sarnies and brand-x hula hoops-alike snack, I find that the cashier has stuffed an M&S Christmas food catalogue.

I must say that it all looks rather toothsome. I don’t think there is anything in the catalogue that I would turn my nose up at, particularly the various turkeys, chickens, pork, lamb and beef joints. The Scottish salmon looks pretty damned groovy, too. But the prices. And the sizes.

This isn’t just food; it’s mind-buggeringly expensive M&S food.

The icon appears for the first time in 2007. I very much doubt it will be the last.

This isn't just food...

I am quite definitely at a loose end. Tottering heaps of paperwork poise on the edge of my desk calling for my attention, but it would be pointless and very probably self-defeating to tackle them until we know what’s gong on. Then it will be busy time with a capital BUSY.

I would normally work on the November payment run at this point, too, but one authority is about to pay us a large tranche of money and may get billed for it twice, compounding the initial error if I proceed too quickly on that front. Thus I am doing the only sensible thing: blogging.

I nipped out an hour or so ago to get some sarnies for lunch and it is clear that whilst it is still 2 months away, Christmas is looming large in the retail mind. In the bag with my sarnies and brand-x hula hoops-alike snack, I find that the cashier has stuffed an M&S Christmas food catalogue.

I must say that it all looks rather toothsome. I don’t think there is anything in the catalogue that I would turn my nose up at, particularly the various turkeys, chickens, pork, lamb and beef joints. The Scottish salmon looks pretty damned groovy, too. But the prices. And the sizes.

This isn’t just food; it’s mind-buggeringly expensive M&S food.

The icon appears for the first time in 2007. I very much doubt it will be the last.