Slip-slip-sliding away

Salutations, dear reader(s), its been a couple of weeks since I last blogged, so I'll do my best to race through the time since our eyes last met over a crowded dancefloor....

...ok on with the post!

The week I had off after my op was spent, in the whole, revising for my upcoming exam, which is pretty much all that happened that week. Exciting eh?!

So we shall skip merrily onto last week, and back to work again. Monday was a typical dreary affair, filled with sleeping colleagues and tidy-ups from the mess caused by 3 of us being off the week before (we knew they'd miss us!)

Tuesday brought an 'interesting' train journey into work. The train trundled along, crammed to the rafters with angry, squashed passengers, and just before it got into moor street station, the train slowed down and came to a stop. After about 5 minutes the driver apologised for the delay and announced that a passenger on the train in front had been taken ill on the platform and so the train couldn't move off until the passenger had been picked up by the paramedic, as the poor thing would have had 400 people trampling all over her! Anyway another 10 minutes went by and eventually the train set off again. Getting into the station, the doors opened, and a woman that was standing by the doors slipped on the plastic 'runner' under the doors and almost went under the wheels of the train. Luckily, she was rather a rotund lady so she was sort of wedged in between the platform and the train and had to have 3 people wrench her out of her predicament, and the paramedic, who by the time we got into the station was loading his bags back onto his motorbike, had a 'buy one, get one free', as she was all brusied and scratched from her fall. Anyway the rest of Tuesday was a disappointment compared with the fun in the morning, so we'll skip to wednesday.

Wednesday saw us have a fire alarm go off in the building. Well, actually we think that the builders that are rebuilding the Ipanema bar at the back may have cut through a wire or something, but anyway we all had a good excuse not to work for 30 minutes while we waited outside for a big fireball or at least some smoke, alas nothing. At least this time, the radio 'giants' BRMB decided to grace us with their prescence, probably deciding that this time, they could fit it into their busy schedule of playing the same songs in the same order every day. We were grouped next to them, which gave us chance to see if anyone could recognise anyone at all from the station. I recognised one DJ who does the PA-ing at villa park, the fella who decides to put 'super' at the beginning of every matchday, e.g welcome to villa park for this super-wednesday game in the carling cup. Er...no! Anyway 3 firemen turned up, walked round the building and that was it.

Thursday was spent hoping friday would come, the problem being that this week, as the postmen and women threw all their toys out of the pram, we had literally no work to do, so it was a very dull week. Seriously, does anyone have any small amount of sympathy with them any more? Didn't think so! The evening was spent, where else, but in the chavhorse (new name for the packhorse, i might stick with it), where a good time was had by many.

Friday was a joyous day, as it was...well...friday! It dragged like a b*tch but it was worth it in the end, as we had officially broken up for 2 whole days.

Which brings us onto Saturday and a great day for sport. England walked over Estonia in about 10 minutes, and in the evening we watched the England v France rugby semi, which was a cracker, as you well know, before hitting the chav-den which is rosies in solihull (Please can we have a half-decent club in solihull, pretty pretty pleeeeaaase!)

Sunday was revision day so we'll gloos over that and come onto this week, which has seen (drum roll please).........

...CHRISTMAS!!!!

Woohooo!

The Christmas lights have gone up all round the city centre, and Brindleyplace looks great. The powers-that-be have decorated all the trees round the squares with simple white lights, and there is a kind of blanket of twinkly star-like lights next to our building, which is gonna look fab when we leave work in the dark.

The work has started to come back in too, which is keeping us fairly active (although I am doing this blog at work, which shows that the work has dried up again!), and I've got Thursday and Friday off work as I have an exam on Friday afternoon, so I shall bid you farewell!