Today I shall be Mainly...

[Julie in Norfolk]

...Going to two interviews. Fresh outfit and tidy hair and my own sweet self. Fingers crossed everyone please. (Excepting those with arthritis or rheumatism of course).

[Nolic]

Comrade, discussion was interesting. Amazing what nearly 40 years in the job brings you. It seems that no-one has identified for them the number of "rushed" adoptions that have gone bad with adopters not having time and support in preparing to take on children and reacting in tragic ways including murder. Their are two cases from 20 and 30 years ago that I have pointed them to as well as more recent ones from last year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -pair.html Lets see what happens.
Today I'm off to Lancaster to do some safeguarding training. Nolic

[Wendyf]

Good Luck Julie.
Nolic, I have sent you a pm, as we went through an awful time when we adopted back in the '80s. Hoped things were better now, and that much more support was given to adopting parents, but perhaps things haven't changed that much.
Oh dear, I'm mainly meant to down in Colne library, and I've got all stirred up about this instead!

[Sue]

I am walking this morningand sorting Mums and Dads holiday photos this afternoon. There are some lovely ones of foreign places to have ago at painting and some lovely photos of Mum and Dad. I didn't get any dome yesterday as I was wriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiting letters all day

[Sue]

Good luck Julie

[Moh]

Yes good luck Julie, hope they go well.

[Sue]

I have enjoyed an afternoon shopping in Bury instead.The weather was lovely and mild. Spring is on its way, well today anyway

[Stanley]

Plenty of time for the pics Sue.
Jules, fingers crossed for you, let us know how you go on.

[Moh]

Hanging out my washing for the first time this year, mopping the kitchen floor and going to visit my sister-in-law in the care home she is in in Accrington.

[Sue]

Art this morning. Washing done and hanging out. Hair do this afternoon. Out for a pub meal tonight

[Wendyf]

Building work here. Been assisting Colin to lift & position two very very heavy concrete lintels to replace an old wooden one full of woodworm. Acrow props supporting everything but I get scared! Kitchen covered in plaster and dust everywhere....ah, the joys of DIY.

[Tardis]

Making sure that I can get to the Theatre tonight to watch "The Birthday Party" at the Muni by the Pendle Borderline Company.

[Tizer]

A visit at lunchtime from a friend who lives in the Scilly Isles, formerly a nutrition scientist, then retired and now an expert on bats, registered to handle them. Set up a project with the University of Exeter and re-discovered the Brown-Eared Bat which was thought to be extinct in the Scillies. Not bad for a pensioner! (But did you see Bill Frankland on the One Show, a 99 year-old scientist who had worked with Alexander Fleming and still works in the lab. They asked him if he would retire at 100 and he said "Perhaps, but perhaps not".)

[Sue]

Art today, I am doing a demo on paper batik with a candle. Lunch with Wendy Margaret and our hubbies afterwards, Then Drs for a review of medication and lo and behold it will be 4.30. Bob out at the Modem Engineering tonight so a night for me to knit and watch TV, my choice ( mind you it usually is my choice!!!!)

[Moh]

Tin tent back from service, so cleaning it etc ready for our first trip.

[Stanley]

Jules. Any progress with the interviews?

[Sue]

Yesterday was a service at St Catherines Burnley in memory of those whose funerals had been held in the last month. Then we had a trip to the garden centre followed by a domestic afternoon

Today is an unknown at the moment, No plans except Claire is here for her tea for her birthday. She didn't want to go out for a meal. She wanted her dad to cook smoked duck breast. I bought Bob a smoker for his birthday a couple of years ago from Lakeland and he loves it

[Whyperion]

If anyone wants a smoker ( uses some kind of sawdust I think ) , I will shove one on freecycle in a while ( or it might appear down in Pendle Hospice Charity Shop - will let you all know when I get chance to get if shifted ( its not large but bulky enough to remember you have carried it ), never had the patience to use it.

[Julie in Norfolk]

Mostly today I shall be starting a new job. Still in Quality and Technical; just in a different category. Fingers crossed please.

[EileenDavid]

Good Luck with the new job and well done you for getting it in the first place. Today I am going to the garden centre for some more stone to finish of my flower bed in the hope of keeping the weeds at bay whilst I am away on holiday for 3 months.

Eileen

[Wendyf]

Congrats on the new job Julie and fingers crossed that all goes well.

[Belle]

Hope the new job goes well Julie.

[Stanley]

Good luck Jules! Daughter Mags has just got a new job, difference is that she starts immediately as she finishes her old one. More jobs on the market in Oz.

[Julie in Norfolk]

Thank you all. The place seems friendly, if somewhat manic.

[Nolic]

Top las Jules. Good luck in the new job. Nolic