Last week the holiday away from work and home for a few days was very welcome. We took the caravan to a little CL near Ashby. The thing that struck me the most was how totally insane the drivers are in Leicestershire. They speed around like reckless idiots with no regard to safety or life and limb.

Next Saturday the summerhouse is due to be delivered and erected. I completed the base for it several weeks ago and at the moment it is sat up the top of garden looking rather empty.
I bought it from a local manufacturer of portable buildings who is buying it from a company called Midland Portable Buildings. I could have bought the same one from a garden centre £300 dearer.
With this one I get free bearers and erection (no wise cracks please).
The problem is the new summerhouse creates other projects. ‘Lets have a nice round patio in front of the summerhouse, and a wavy path through the lawns at the bottom and the shrubbery at the top. Perhaps some nice brick paving. Oh and some gravel at the very top behind the leylandii hedge’ --- oh yes she is full of ideas…..but who is her Tommy Walsh. Yes…….little old me.

Sunday we are off to Prestatyn for a spot of indoor bowling.

At the end of May I will be moving office due to company money saving measures. They are closing all but one of the buildings in Manchester and piling us all into that building.
It is further away from the stations and it is nearer the city centre so there is no side street parking. Probably in the future we will be subject to a ‘congestion charge’ So generally it is less convenient for everyone except the company. But that is not important as it will save them a few quid and cost us more.

A couple of weeks ago, when we had the ‘Manchester fire’ our department was temporarily relocated to the new building because all our comms were down. This move gave me a good insight as to what life will be like (as a sardine) when we move permanently. As a consequence I have been reviewing my blogging and posting situation as to how it relates to the Victorian attitude of the company.
I will now only be posting from home, probably only about once a week, the frequency of postings is dependent on how much I have to say and how communicative I am feeling.
Also I feel it will give me a little more freedom on the content. I will be less inhibited in what I can and cannot say.