A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

kidcat

Oh smiley that is so frustrating can you not have another CRB done or would it take too long?

Byatt

Smiley, have you contacted AF's?? I had something similar a year or so ago, but it was flour...flour everywhere just after I'd hoovered the living room...didn't notice the trail of white stuff as I dragged the boxes into the kitchen, until it was too late. I sent a heart wrenching email to AF's and they did refund. But didn't pay for a cleaner!

Sorry about the CRB, that sucks.

I'm a right grumpy old tart and I don't have time of the month as an excuse! :rotfl::o

GreyQueen

jamanda wrote: »

I've been reading about the Greeks - due to uncertainty over the coming elections, they have been pulling their money out of the bank and stocking up on non-perishable foods (remind you of anyone?)

Mind you, if it had been us we'd have had every penny out and stocked up on tinned toms ages ago.

Been MIA for a bit - RL taking over somewhat due to minor building works going on for 3 months, builder spitting dummy out and "walking away" because he has done it wrong, garden hiding zebras and giraffes in long grass, etc. etc.

Keep trying to read to keep up though, laughing and sobbing with you all.

Nice to "see" you again Jamanda. I'd just like to state, on oath, that I haven't bought a tin of tomatoes since July 2011. Haven't needed to, mind you.:rotfl:My latest siege food is the trusty Fray Bentos pie. I have only a titchy freezer so the storecupboard is mostly in tinned form. I did make a meal mainly from a tinned mix bean salad and a can of tuna (plus veggies) tonight. It's all good.

fuddle wrote: »

I have received an email telling me my trolley will arrive tomorrow. Initially, YES! but I saw an elderly couple with one today, like mine but with flowers on, and I thought... do I really want to do this. Head says absolutely, heart is having a wobble and worrying about what people think. Head argues "I don't care what people think!" but heart whispers, actually I do. So I'm having a wobble over it. I want to do that trek to the butchers warehouse again on Friday for fruit and veg with it. Lets see if I chicken out or not :cool:

I look at it this way, fuddle; why should the pensioners have all the cool gear while we have to struggle around with bags cutting welts into our fingers? I don't have one myself because I shop on the pushbike but I'd certainly have one if I needed to walk any distance. There are some deeply hip ones about and I see fashionable young gels in their twenties with them sometimes, so just regard yourself as a style-leader. It can be a touch tiresome waiting for the rest of the world to catch up, but that's the price you sometimes have to pay.....

Whadda we want? Wally trollies! Whendowewant'em? NOW!!

sammy-kaye ohmigoodness! Glad to see you back with the online family, though.

Today I feel as if I have been on some kind of OS-athon. I have baked wholemeal bread rolls with the wind-miller's flour, I have patched my gardening shirt and even handwashed some stuff. Plus I ironed, went to w*rk and went to the lottie.

OMG, the lottie! The warmth on top of the rain has sent the weeds in the tattie patch demented. I was pulling out great skeins of chickweed. Ain't nobody got that many chickens to feed. And the grass on the scruffy bit at the top was about 4 feet tall. Darned good job I didn't have any small children with me or they'd've disappeared into the grass like Charlie Boorman into the Amazon rainforest and not been seen again for a decade. To think I was worried that my spare muck pile might be swiped from - ha! The grass grew up around it and you can't even see it unless you're virtually on top of it.

My Dad was pulling my leg and suggesting I could build a hayrick but I thought about some kind of effigy as it's coming up on midsummer.

Hokay, running late today but at least the dishes have been done. The bedlinen is on the floor as I've been turning the mattress and haven't re-assembled and Henri D'Vac is lurking in the hall trying to work up some initative to clean on his own account. What's that you say? Vacuums have to be steered?

Well I never. The future was never as labour-intensive in the past, when you read 1950s science fiction, it was never going to be like this. I mean, where is my personalised aircar?!

Nurrrrrrrrsssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! Tea, pllleeeessse!

Have a good evening, ladies, I'm going slightly bonkers, waiting for the good ole ME crash-and-burn to happen.

smileyt_2

kidcat wrote: »

Oh smiley that is so frustrating can you not have another CRB done or would it take too long?

I'm going to ask them to get the forms to me asap, but usually it takes a couple of months for CRB's to come through. As I have an e-mail from them from last autumn saying they do have a CRB for me, I am going to ask them to have a thorough search of their paper files and double-check.

I know CRB's are important, especially as the job lined up was with a social work department, but you'd think one CRB would cover it all, wouldn't you?

jamanda

smileyt wrote: »

I'm going to ask them to get the forms to me asap, but usually it takes a couple of months for CRB's to come through. As I have an e-mail from them from last autumn saying they do have a CRB for me, I am going to ask them to have a thorough search of their paper files and double-check.

I know CRB's are important, especially as the job lined up was with a social work department, but you'd think one CRB would cover it all, wouldn't you?

Smiley, a couple of years ago I was temping in Social Services (Notts) and I didn't have a CRB check. I was also offered a temp job with kids social services, and they didn't ask for one either. Got a full time permanent job so didn't go with the kids one. It was when the cuts were coming in and temps were suddenly "banned". I found out while I was there that most of them got their jobs by temping first, then were "ushered" into the proper jobs if they were any good. Was offered some other stuff as well, but I know me and I'm not front line material. I'm a good back up, but I couldn't do the front line and keep my sanity or ever sleep again.

It is worth jumping through hoops to get your foot in the door if this is what you would like to do.

kidcat

The trouble is smiley (as I am sure you know) a CRB certificate is out of date a minute after it is produced so an old certificate is probably of little use. I have a CRB as I am a school governor, but in order to volunteer at my DD6 school I have got to have another - even though it is the same local authority and exactly the same woman who does it. Madness, I think there should be a better way of doing it as the current system is really paper heavy and of limited protection.

smileyt_2

Yes, I know. I could have murdered a hundred people since April, when my last CRB came out. (I haven't, by the way!!).

Jamanda, that's what I was thinking - it'll be a case of if I do a good job then they will ask for me next time ... and the time after that... etc. I think lots of temporary work will suit me better as I get bored very easily and like to be my own boss, so if I am in temporary jobs hopefully there will be fewer office politics to get involved in. I won't have as much invested, emotionally. I hope so, anyway! I still want to do the notetaking as that pays better and I enjoy it, but an extra string to my bow wouldn't do any harm at all.

Still, these things happen for a reason. It'll all come out in the wash and other such cliches :rotfl:.

katieowl_2

Hi everyone, sticking my head over the parapet of life to say, please could someone turn the speed down, because I'm having trouble keeping a grip as it's all moving so fast.

Been insanely busy at w*rk, making cakes like a madwoman, cleaning and starting it all again.

Had the weekend from HELL as I got toothache on Weds evening, but was working (boss off for a few days so me in charge) Thurs, Fri and Sat, called the dentist Sat AM to hear that they weren't open until Monday and to call NHS Emergency....well that so wasn't happening, because of w*rk, and needing to pick DD up from Uni forever :T on Sunday....so started taking an ancient packet of anti-biotics from the armageddon stash, and raided my friends medicine cabinet for prescription painkillers! (you may think this ill advised, but it was quite rational - Friday night I was considering something MUCH more drastic...like sending the resident youf into town for something a bit stronger than asprin!) Anyway...we had to get up at 5 am Sunday to go get DD and cos' Aberystwyth was flooded, had to go to Newport, then up through Monmouthshire to Nottingham - a luverly 12 hour round trip with a brief break in the middle to load the car with DD's tut.
Got to see the dentist on Monday afternoon, and got a wrist slapping for taking antibiotics without permission but hey it did help...and it WAS an infection, he drilled the nerve out on Monday, so it was supposed to stop hurting, when the infection has gone he will take it out (my request CBA with root canal it's a heavily filled back tooth) but it's still quite uncomfortable.

Anyway - DD came back and immediately disappeared to her mates in London, and to see Granny, leaving a mountain of stuff in the lobby of the B&B :mad: Hoping that once this week is over, life will calm down. I have a 'day off' tomorrow, and am working Friday and Sunday, but catering a few items for a civil partnership on Saturday - up early to make 150 heart shaped welshcakes! I did lots of cleaning this morning, so determined that 'day off' shall be a day of leisure, taking up trousers, and pottering with the craft cupboard, and maybe pulling up a few nettles....hope it's not raining!


Kate

bonnie_bumpkins

kidcat wrote: »

The trouble is smiley (as I am sure you know) a CRB certificate is out of date a minute after it is produced so an old certificate is probably of little use. I have a CRB as I am a school governor, but in order to volunteer at my DD6 school I have got to have another - even though it is the same local authority and exactly the same woman who does it. Madness, I think there should be a better way of doing it as the current system is really paper heavy and of limited protection.

Madness indeed :mad: I've applied for jobs for which I will need a CRB check. Job 1; I supply all info. Don't get the job. Apply for Job 2; I have to supply all info again. Don't get the job. Etc etc. Each employer/volunteer organisation has to have a fresh/individual CRB check for the potential employee/volunteer. A total waste of time, paper & money.

smileyt if you are claiming JSA as far as I know they will pay for a CRB check, should you need one. I remember when I first claimed I was told not to be put off by 'CRB cost to be met by applicant' on job adverts. Your Job Centre Advisor should be able to confirm/clarify this. If you have any JSA related questions please do pm me as I've been claiming since August last year; I've had temp jobs and perm jobs in between and can give info on pretty much any scenario :cool: HTH

I've just watched 'The Secret History of our Streets' on bbc i-player, last week's episode on Deptford, SE London. It has made me tearful My dad grew up nearby. I'd be interested to hear everyone's views; did other major cities experience similar??

BitterAndTwisted

mcculloch29 wrote: »

After my divorce I went through a bit of a 'rock chick' phase - I can well remember thinking that seeing someone pulling a shopping trolley in full biker leathers must have looked a bit bizarre.... :rotfl:

Eh, I'm 58 next month and I'm still in my "rock-chick" phase (!!!!!! development-alert!) and guess what? I'm very fond of my fake leopard-skin print trolley. It doesn't look funny round here because lots of young 'uns use them for shopping: they've been quite fashionable here in London for some time. It saves those poor arms from being wrenched out of their sockets from lugging heavy shopping-bags home. Result!

Pull your shopping-trolleys with pride, girls!