Entries by ALB1970

The first 15 Years

We had to be apart for our 15th anniversary for one reason an invitation to Westminster and the Houses of Parliament for a party that I would not have allowed Jamie to miss even on an important date in our calendar. An opportunity like this may never happen again, we will be together tomorrow and […]

Could we make you stay?

Got a call from my boss late afternoon to say they were sorry to recieve my letter of resignation and is there anything they could say to change my descision, which I replied straightaway with the fact that it had been coming for a while and I felt it was time to move on so […]

Offer accepted

Can we talk at 1:30…yeh OK Do you want this job or what? Yeh I think I do! I’ll send you something to sign OK Er yeh Was basically (paraphrased) how my day went, I got offered a job that in all honesty I have been sold all along and I sort said fuck it […]

Bench press

Spent a good portion of my Sunday cracking on with my bench and managed to get main top work space attached and the bottom shelf secured too and left it with the saw shelf ready to set up but time and inclination got the better of me and ended the day at the pub with […]

I didn’t think it would be her!

Although I wanted to spend all day in me shed Jamie asked if I wanted to do our walk after dropping Reagan off at horse riding, and that was a no-brainer. I love spending time alone with my best mate! When we picked up Reagan she was not waiting for us so Mommy went in […]

Friday feelings

It was good to make it to Friday and k ow the weekend is about to begin after a long and eventful week but after a busy day I started feeling ill….the feeling was the same as Jamie had been complaining about the last couple of days. I don’t mind being ill (I don’t want […]

The Interview

Today was all about meeting two people I don’t know and trying to impress them with a view to maybe getting a job with their company. From my point of view I treated it as an interview so had a shave a shower added cologn and moisturiser on me head, cleaned me teeth and put […]

Time to step up?

I felt I had to send a message to my pool team tonight after getting soundly beaten and listening to one or two individuals losing faith in the process… Winning is easy losing is the hardest but it either strengthens you or breaks you, tonight I had to be a captain! “This is your captain […]

Disappointment

I lay in the bath tonight and it occurred to me that this job offer can only disappoint me now? I lay there and realised that I have got my head round leaving my job now, if the offer was good enough, I think I have started feeling excited about the prospect, which is definitely […]

High Deaf

Today I was made aware of my inability to hear high frequency noise, something I knew about to a certain extent from a hearing test I had back in my Ideal Standard days when after about 30 seconds an ear splitting noise jolted me and the nurse asked if that is the first sound I […]