Thursday, December 13, 2007

Very frustrated at the moment. The team I'm working with really aren't committed to it at all. In fact, it usually seems that work is something they use to fill a dull moment when they haven't got the match to talk about. Or their lottery syndicate. Or what's happening on Coronation Street. You get the idea. I want to pick them up and shake them. They're so damn complacent that everything is someone else's fault. Grrrrrr.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Saxophone lesson at school for Jessica today. She's also singing in the chorus in the school pantomime this evening. She got a bit worried last night because it seems the teacher running the show has put a bit of pressure on them to get it right - which had Jessica in a bit of a blather.


Alex rumbles on, school is still going OK - he may be in the lowest set for Literacy and Numeracy, but he's there. And his reading has improved no end since the summer.


I'm reading a single volume abridgement of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" at the moment, mostly on the bus on the way into work. It's interesting how the conclusions he draws are often still the 'canonical' ones regarding any given period.


I'm also trying to wean myself off a growing addiction to Caffe Nero Lattes, usually to drink on the bus on the way home.

Here we are at the run down towards Christmas. I can't tell you how much I dislike this time of year. It's dark in the morning, it's dark in the evening. You feel constantly tired and there's the stress of trying to prepare for Christmas.


We're not doing big presents for the kids this year - although my family have given me quite a bit of money, and we are therefore thinking about getting a Wii afterwards. No chance of getting one beforehand, and both kids enjoy their electronic games. It's a lot of money, but we know they'll get their money's worth out of it. The alternative is a holiday somewhere, or perhaps membership of Chester Zoo. I'll let you know what we decide.


Work is work. I just hate getting up when it's dark and then going home when it's dark. Still there is light on the horizon as I may shortly be able to hand over my staff to someone else and just be a planning manager - which I think is probably more up my street although it only forms part of my role at the moment.