Coffee and chocolate

NorthernLas

Ani - If you want to know more about dipsticks, UTIs and the treatment there of, I am happy to share ... but Miggy's thread may head down an unsavory medical route for a bit ... I'll let her decide if this is OK, before I jump into the explanation

I survived 'hot table', served a lot of lasagne and potato wedges and a fair bit of minestrone soup, did breakfast specials before that and quite a bit of tea, coffee and a couple of glasses of wine and lets not forget the bottle of peroni . Had a lovely mango and passionfruit torte (made in house and not eaten by customers, so it ends up in the staff dining room)

I await Miggy's permission for sharing medical bits n bobs

miggy

Ha ha! Well as I have neither a car nor er... an infection I think either a pm or (dare I say) give it its very own thread!

That could be interesting... let me know and I will come and say hello!

Erme, I get very confused when it comes to initials! I was obviously not meant for this century.

And now kind people, what do you make of this? I arrived at work after nearly three weeks off to find I have an additional night shift on Monday, my training day next week has been swapped, and I'm working part or all of the next four weekends (supposed to be 1 in 2) - and nobody had the courtesy to let me know. I'm therefore going to have to rearrange my calendar and other people's because there are appointments already made and now to be cancelled.

Grr.
End of moan.

Not a happy bunny, though I can always spend the money from the extra shift.

NorthernLas

Miggy - to me if your work have a procedure that you follow and give a certain amount of notice when you want holiday, they should give the same amount of notice if they want/need to change your shift !!!

Is it that you always say 'harrumph, OK then ...' so they think that they can take the michael??? Could you have an important appointment / family business so that you simply HAVE TO say NO to one of the changes? Just a thought, that if the management get the impression that you have a life outside work, they will respect YOUR time off more and maybe (just maybe) not mess you about so much!

I am not creating a thread for dipstick and the like, so Ani will just have to stay intrigued

NL x

MuffinTops

Hi Miggy,

How irritating to get into work and find everything has changed. I hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction.

I hope this hasn't drained any of your new batteries after the 3 week break.

miggy

The thing was that I'd spoken to my line manager before I went on holiday and said that as the next lot of rotas weren't available, could she let me know so I would know what I was doing when I got back. She let me have a preview and before I left the rotas were made available to everyone. When I got back, I had the shifts she'd mentioned, plus some, which now means another night with neither Dh nor myself at home with DS2 (though older kids will be here and tbh he is old enough to look after himself), and two non-critical appointments that I'll have to change as well as fitting in a visit to Mum at the end of my 'rest day'.

I just texted her to state disapproval and she said I could opt out if they were extra hours but at this short notice I might as well do them... she has asked me if some shifts next week are okay though. Nights are difficult to cover and yes, I tend to feel obliged if I don't have a strong reason for saying 'no' - but on the other hand I have been known to refuse if there's something important.

It's crazy that we are expected to book leave ages in advance but not given good notice of shifts - though I suppose in a smallish team there are always going to be emergencies to cover.

Erme

Och how annoying...hugs miggy

I'm speaking in code for Ani...och I forgot ...she's on the phone to the BA this am trying to get extra money :money

Stick to your guns Ani...YOU'RE ENTITLED TO IT!!!

E

miggy

You lot ever thought of a Bletchley Park-type career?

I'm now awake and eating chocolate...

In a few minutes I'm going to the opticians because my glasses decided to fall to bits in the middle of the night and although I got them back together again, I think they need skill.

Before I head off I am going to regale you all with the strangest dream. I don't dream much and when I do there's nothing much going on, so why do I suddenly have one as off-beat as this?

I was visiting a family - Mum, Dad, young daughter, who I think were friends of a friend who happens to know loads of nice people. They were Turkish or Armenian or similar. The house was crowded, untidy and creative - so I felt at home.

For some reason I asked if I could play their piano (uncharacteristic) and found there was an old fashioned music book with a novelty layout and the piece of music I tried started out with crochets with an incidental B flat and it took me a few goes to play it right. (That can happen - and it was a very strange chord!) The little girl appeared behind me laughing - when I had expected her to be impressed - and asked me if I was playing dumbo music. I decided to be honest and admitted I'm not very good (:D) and asked her if she wanted to play, upon which she sat down and produced the most amazingly accomplished playing as if it were nothing.

After that we became good friends and I spent some time with her, then chatted to her mum. DH and I ended up staying to tea, which was gorgeous cheese scones (looking like shortbread) and a kind of hubba bubba pipe (rectangular, and made of see-through plastic) that you blew into to drink coffee - and the coffee was a black-currant-flavoured chocolate, which was also delicious. DH had mint chocolate flavour - even weirder as he never has coffee. All this was served at an untidy table surrounded by bits and pieces of their full and creative lives. I liked them so much... but eventually it was time to go and it turned out we were on some kind of camping site about which I don't remember much.

A shame I woke up really: I was enjoying myself a lot, and I still have an unanswered question:

How did blowing into something mean that the drink appeared at the top of the straw?

Okay, that was very strange and you are all very tolerant listening to me so I will leave you in peace and get these glasses seen to.

miggy

The new assistant at the Optician's looks like Clark Kent, but the glasses are fixed and that's the main thing.

DH rang - trip nearly over and I haven't got many of the things I'd hoped to do, done. I suppose I'll have earned some extra money, though.

Incidentally, I fed five of us for a week and went about £3 over my share of the food money: we ate really well too. Yesterday in fact there were six of us to feed. So the question is - how does DH, aided and abetted by DS2, get through an additional £47?

Last week probably wasn't typical as we had some things over from holidays, but all the same...

ani_26

Glad you got your glasses fixed.

Erme

You need your own e-cig Miggy...it's calling your name...with blackcurrant flavouring

That's what that dream says

E