h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The funeral was as OK as a funeral can be. To be honest I felt like a bit of a hanger on as I didn't really know the women very well. There was a massive turnout from work, loads and loads from the directorate. Frankly I wonder who was running the special care baby unit that morning. The Chief Executive even came, despite today being a day when a whole bunch of politics for him was going to explode in his face. I thought him showing up was a really nice gesture. The next step is setting up a memorial fund which will pay for neonatal nurse development.

I am glad there were so many of you there and that you got through it and I agree your Chief Exec did a nice thing!

That is a lovely idea - will you set up the fund in your professional capapcity?

Wouls you like a ?

I don't deal with the charitable funds side of the business, although I am already fielding calls from folk in the Directorate who want to make a donation. I'm happy to collect cheques and things if it makes life easier for folk.


I've already had plenty of tonight, thank you. And I'm now on the shiraz. As I think so are you

Nope - sounds good thought - I am just exhaused and needing some sleep - done way to many hours and not had enough sleep - even though I stayed in Brum! (I think it was 14 hours yesterday!

Are you about much this weekend?




PS Great news about next weekend - or did I say that already?

I'll be around and about this weekend. Lucy is doing some bank work at some point over the weekend, she's not sure which shift(s) yet. But when she's gone of to heal the sick, no doubt I'll be hanging around here

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Just how fast is your ISP connection? You've only been back a couple of hours.

Not that fast! I have two pages of browser open though!

I think you have probably caught up with miost of my news elsewhere! Worked way too many hours this week, including a business dinner on Wednesday and lots of presentations as part of a big employee communication exercise and then the day job!

I stayed in a very posh and small Brum central apartment - I think they are way overpriced! Whhich would I rather 3 bed country cottage or small rabbit hutch (all be it trendy) right in the middle of Brum !!!!

No contest, although it I could aford a plce up there too it would be worht considering!

We have a number of flats with the company for the international people we bring over and there is one free for a couple of weeks so I am using it - camped out with my sleeping bag, washbag and a change of clothes! The heating was storage and therefore not functional when I got there at 1am! I failed to make it work the second evening for the second morning too - Oh well!

Still now I can look over fields rather than car parks

Any plans for the weekend or does that depend on Lucy's shifts?

We've been watching crap Saturday morning TV. I've had enough so here I am for a while.

Lucy got a call this morning asking her to work this evening. I don't much fancy going out so I expect I'll be here instead

Poor Lucy! Still its h2g2's gain! I am not sure what I will be doing yet but I fancy a quietish night in, maybe go for a takeaway, maybe a bottle of red ...

So I guess I will be here too

Is Lucy going to come to London next weekend?

Its not a case of poor anyone. She's just chasing the money. Her name is down as one of the staff willing to do extra hours at the drop of a hat, so she gets regular calls. Tonight's work will come at a 60% premium. (Although I've noticed I'm not getting paid for the fetching and carrying.)

We spent the afternoon trailing around the shops. Her looking for god alone knows what, and me with the standard male glazed expression and saying "Yes dear" at occasional intervals. I did manage to annoy her when I decided I needed a hair cut. She obviously never believed me when I said I was a "lazy skinhead" in the hair style stakes. Well she'll just have to get used to it

* giggles *

Total coupledom already! Sounds like a scene repeated by couples up and down the country! I was talking to one of my Australian colleagues who is over here with her husband and she says one of the things she really misses is shopping with the girls - he husband goes with her and aparently he really tries but he just does not understand when she picks up something three times in a shop before she will even try it on and then, despite him saying it looks great, is still not sure and wants to look round every other shop before coming back and eventually buying it. Yep we do know we do that but we kinda have to!

I should have gone shopping today but could not quite face it!

Total coupledom already? Oh 'eck

And we're all lying because, "Yes your bum does look big in that."

(But we quite like it that way )

* giggles *

Just as well really! (well I can live in hope!)

Have you read Arabella Weirs Book called Does my Bum Look big in this?

No I haven't. Is it any good? Or is it another one of those exercises in female guilt and self loathing. Honestly you lot, you are your own worst enemies you know.

Its quite amusing but it may be a bit of a girlie book - and it takes the micky big time out of our tendancy towards self loathing! The character in it makes me feel secure about myself and that not easy!

Hmmm... I've read Bridget Jones' Diary. Didn't understand it, but then I guess I wasn't supposed to. I have been to a tupperware party once - that was fun for both sides of the gender debate.

* giggles *

Well I guess you would not enjoy the Arabella Weir then either!

I do have to confess to never having been to a tupplewear party - or seen the fascination with the stuff!

I am not all that good at this girlie stuff sometimes!

I was invited to the party by my boss. I went mainly to keep her husband company hiding away upstairs playing on the computer, and because I had seen a flask thing in the catalogue that would be useful to me.

I turned up late, walked in, picked up the catelogue, found what I wanted, found the order form, filled it in, and walked out - 2 minutes tops. Typical male shopping behaviour

The women took the next 2 hours and more to complete that task

* giggles *

Definitely!

As I say we have to take for ever over it!

Still it gave you and he a chance to have a few beers and play on the computer!

Strangely I never got an invite to the Anne Summers party she held a few months later...