Welshgirl's World

Today was never going to be easy. A lot of conflicting demands on my time and long distances to cover as usual.

So I got up very early and set off to my 1st of 2 destinations. All was going quite well and I was rigidly sticking to my agenda and timetable and not allowing myself to be led off on any tangents! At 10:00am - I thought "yes I can do it all today"

At 10:10am that all changed My phone goes and it turns out that one of sites has been evacuated following them hitting a large gas main. All hell breaks loose and phonecalls are made and taken in rapid succession. The rest of my days is cancelled and I set off for the site to investigate the incident.

It was almost 1pm when I got there and I got straight down to business - no pleasantries because I was feeling very stressed about all the things that would now not get done pre-audit.

When I finally left there I noticed that I was now very low on fuel and with more travelling tomorrow, I was forced to join the endless queue at the supermarket petrol station to top up.

As I left there the phone went again - it was the first site I had visited this morning "there has been an accident" - a man who has broken some bones - another call to the Regional Director - poor man - he had only just back to the office following his meeting with me at the gas incident site.

If this is the first day of the week and the Auditors arrive tomorrow and this carries on I think I will have a nervous breakdown........

This is going to be a long hard week. I am being tested to breaking point - well a bit of an exaggeration. A once in 7 years event is due this week - no - not the opening of some exotic flower - but a parent company audit of my department in my region

There will be no time or place for fun or laughter. It will all be quite tedious and a lot rests on the result.

It starts on Tuesday and it will finish on Friday afternoon.

Friday teatime I shall zoom home and collect the suitcase I packed today and make my way to the airport - I so need a week in the sun and I do not doubt one bit that I will be hanging on to that thought all week.

Tomorrow I have to rush around to 2 big sites and ensure the darlings have got crib notes at the ready for any questions they maybe asked no matter how obliquely the auditors put them.

I have a list of lists both personal and professional to get me through the week. Between sites tomorrow the first list says "Euros". Currently Tesco has the best rate so I shall nip in and collect some.

I will pop in here if I can and read up all the blogs as I do like to keep abreast of all the news

Have a great week,

Wcg xx

I am not writing what I should be writing. I am managing to avoid writing by using the excuse that I am reading. And I am. Reading that is. I have been through all 10 pages of my friends blogs this evening, catching up.
I have also taken to calling in the library again on Saturdays after an absence of at least a year having preferred to source my books from charity shops (we have enough of them).
I must be a bit OCD (obsessive compulsive etc.) because once I find an author whose work I enjoy I digest their work like my life depends upon it!
The poor weather this summer combined with living alone means I can put my PJs on at anytime during the evening and slope off to bed with a good book.

I seem to have exhausted the charity shops being unable to find anything new (to me) in them for weeks now - it is all Danielle Steel, John le Carre, Stephen King and Dan Brown. These are not books for me.

I have just read a thriller by Sophie Hannah and enjoyed it so will look for another book by her tomorrow.

If you want a book that makes you laugh out loud try one of Lou Wakefields novels - writer of the Radio and now TV series "Ladies of Letters" and I am sure you won't be disappointed.

Today was the Commissionning of HMS Daring at Portsmouth exactly 250 years to the day since HMS Victory was commissioned!

The ship and its company were blessed as part of the commissioning and her Patron the Countess of Wessex was there too - I was quite impressed as she spoke well and stayed for several hours and wasn't surround by an entourage of ladies in waiting or detectives.

I am never going to find any new friends

Why?

Because having read through my "friends" blogs for the last 3 or 4 days I then went to the "Home" page and clicked through onto the latest postings.

More than a dozen in the last 30 minutes by the same person - can't Blog stop this?

We need a moderator to bar these people as soon as their postings becomes a nuisance.

Hi Bloggers

I have just had my attention drawn to this novelty item on Ebay (wish I had thought of it!)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=110410264075

Today I had Sunday lunch with a friend I first met 22 years ago when we worked together in a Civil Engineering Department. Over lunch we worked out how long it has been since we last saw each other although we keep in touch via email and the odd telephone call - well it has been 8 years. We only live about 15 miles apart

As the sky was ominously darkening he did not stop in for a coffee before heading off home as he wanted to rescue his washing from impending rain.

I logged into Facebook and there was a message in my Inbox. This was from a friend I worked with 23 years ago in 1986! She lives in London now and I only know that I have not seen her in over 10 years (will work it out later). Anyway she says she is coming to Wales today! I texted her to say "where are you?" and she phoned to say she was on the train to my town with an expected arrival time in the next 10 minutes!

So this evening we are meeting and having a catch up!

This leaves me wondering....surely there will be third one as things always seem to run in threes eh?

Who is the Ozercafe.com? Eh? I ask you. I will tell you who - some blog hogging nutcase I should think grrrr.

Devil of a job to find blogs of interest when you have to wade through the endless repeats of the this blogger.

Ms. Angry!

It was very hot, humid and still in work today. A colleague and myself went outside at about 1:30 pm for a cigarette. Suddenly a huge blast of wind came from nowhere and within a few seconds we saw a mini tornado pass in front of us, it was a swirling mass of dust about 18 foot high and it passed at quite a speed picking up stuff from some skips it passed and throwing the stuff out further along before diappearing into the distance! For a moment we looked at each other in disbelief "did that just happen?" There were several dozen witnesses to the event but as yet we don't know if anyone caught it on a mobile phone as a still or video.

This happened on the outskirts of Bristol today at lunchtime.

Never thought I would see something like that!

Anyone know what happened to them? They were both prolific bloggers and I felt I knew them both.

Where are they now?