Horace's Biting the Bullet Diary

beanielou

Food for thought.
There's no need for her to shout though.
Easy product to sell?

Horace

Fairly easy product to sell I would say - they don't sell to the general public as they are in a niche market.

I think it is fear that is making the girl act the way she does. She wasnt shouty today and was in fact quite helpful. I got the feeling that I was liked because I had picked up things quickly and I had stood up to her. She hasnt come from the same background as me - she comes from a civil service background and tbh some civil servants are rather odd.

Aesop

Horace wrote: »

- she comes from a civil service background and tbh some civil servants are rather odd.

LOL, I used to work in the Civil Service, now I know why I am so mad....:rotfl:

surely they should recognise your initiative in contacting dead accounts?

would you like to come to work with me Horace, could do with someone like you on my team, get up and go, doesn't shirk responsibility, and full of fantastic ideas. just wish you weren't so far.

lionheartedgirl

Hi Horace, just a quick one to say I'm thrilled that you have the keys for your house at last.
Good luck on the next chapter, onwards and upwards! :beer:

LondonGirl252

Congrats on the keys!!!!!

Horace

If you weren't so far away Aesop, I would take you up on your offer. The bit about civil servants being a bit odd is tha I know some that are, one of them in fact is not fit to be a civil servant (ex BF) but at least he can't cause too much mischief where he is now and i know that he is already on a final warning for his bad behaviour and is known to be a vexatious litigant.

I feel sure that the fact that I contacted some dead accounts will be good because I know that i can persuade them to buy again. Anyway I have Remploy on my side and a call will be made to them tomorrow to give feedback as to how I thought it went and the fact that I am really keen to work there.

Today has been horrific - I started packing up my office this morning and took a few bags out to the bin and whilst I was there I thought it to be a tad too hot and muggy and then the hairs on my arms stood on end:eek: The sky looked quite ominious by which time I was back indoors and packing, I heard thunder starting to rumble and then the sky went really dark, so dark I had to put the light on and the streetlights came on. We had some dreadful lightning and some really loud claps of thunder and the heavens opened. I started to feel a little faint and I had a massive headache so went and made some coffee and sat in front of the tv for a bit. Well the weather got worse and at one point there was a really bright flash followed immediately by the sound of an explosion and I could hear stuff falling down the chimney - that tv was turned off so quick.

I knew that i had to go to Remploy today and I had been wearing sandals so decided to find a pair of socks and wear my riding boots (ankle boots that I have ridden in once or twice but wear them generally), I found out my goretex waterproof hiking jacket figuring that if the sun came out then I could roll it up as it is quite light. I was forced to step into ankle deep water outside - eww and then I squelched to the bus stop. I managed to miss 4 No. 63 buses and though it rather odd that 4 had come along at once, then on getting onto a 62 discovered that a water main had burst not far from me plus the roads where flooded due to the rain. The rain must have been bad because the central grass verge looked like a lake and it was like that all the way up to Brum. The bus was forced to stop at Bournville because of a massive flood close to the park and vehicles were stuck in it, our driver decided to stay put until the waters subsided. We slowly went through and the water was lapping under the door - the bridge for the small river was almost submerged with only the top bricks showing. On we drove, then by the main gate at the university there was yet more flood water which must have been about shin deep.

I got off the bus and hadnt walked far when the heavens opened again and I was drenched, walking along New Street was like walking through a river. I got to Remploy rather late and I had to ask for a plastic bag to sit on ..where I had been sitting/standing there was a pool of water:eek: The rain had penetrated my jacket and I was soaked to the skin, when I left there the weather seemed ok and then the heavens opened again so I looked more like a drenched rat than a human being:mad:

Managed to get on any bus back towards home and dived off outside Aldi -nipped in there to get something for lunch, sonme rolls and a pack of sausages (sausages for tea tonight), I then waited for a bus home and when I eventually got in stood in my hallway and got undressed, my sodden clothes have had to go into a bag as the jeans will certainly need a proper wash as the water I had to paddle through was drain water:eek:

The weather now is glorious, the sun is out, it is quite warm and there is a breeze.

Meanwhile a lot of the roads are closed due to flood water.

Millie2008_2

I've been stuck in B Green all day! I went down to the Drs this morning and had to turn back and go a different way as there was a lake in the middle of the road and some silly bint had driver her lowered BMW through it, the engine died and she had to get towed out.

Came out of GP and headed for work and the road was blocked by the B G Inn with another lake. No problems, says I and set off back via home, but our road had its own mini lake up need the lickies and there were cars abandoned left, right and centre.

At this point, I lost my sense of humour, went home and worked there. Colleague said that campus was really bad, so I'm glad I didn't go in! When I was driving down to B Green originally, it stunk of drainwater, they must have been totally overwhelmed. I haven't seen rain like that since we moved here

It's bright and sunny here now though! Odd...

beanielou

Blimey Horace that is dire.
Hope that you have dried out now.

LondonGirl252

Blimey, I can't believe the difference down here its being boiling hot and sunny all day. I have to say, the wind has picked up now and is quite strong so maybe the storm is on its way.

Hope you've dried out and had a cuppa to warm up

Horace

Millie - I am glad you are ok..Mum said that Lickey Road was like a river. I know that Rubery was flooded too. Mum spent the day at the house with dad cleaning and scrubbing. I shall meet up with her tomorrow to get the keys as I need to start taking stuff there tomorrow night. I was looking on one of the BBC news websites this evening and they were saying that the River Rea rose 5ft in 90 mins hence why there is a lot of flooding around Birmingham and that a flood warning has been put out on that river. I think it odd because usually that river is but a mere trickle more brook like than river.

I have dried out, alas my poor boots are sodden as is everything else - some is in a little pile on the bedroom floor and my jeans and socks are in a plastic carrier bag. More of the wet stuff is forecast overnight.

I have tons to do still but I am taking a break from it all tonight and will crack on again tomorrow, I also have to sign on tomorrow (what joy..).

I had some sausages for tea in some Aldi multigrain baps that had had 30% knocked off the price..yummy - I will have the same for tea tomorrow.