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

Cripes GD!
Hope you manage to sort out what you want to do and where you want to do it before too long.

To give you an update on the situation.

It now seems that my pay-off will be 4 weeks pay rather than the 12 that I had been hoping for. This has knocked me back a bit, as it means that I will have to start eating into my savings that bit sooner than I had anticipated. In the grand scheme of things I don't suppose that that matters too much as I do have a fair amount stashed away, and access to a whole load more if I need it.

The other thing that I've discovered is that I'm having to BUY and PAY for my own stationery. After 15 years of working in an office with unlimited quatities of paper, pens, envelopes etc on tap. This experience comes as a bit of shock to the system!

Only just caught up on this, GD. Hard luck on the money front, I know, and a pretty uncomfortable personal upheaval I imagine. On the whole though, I expect a man of your talents will soon find something better, and maybe something which will make you happier.

I'd offer you a job myself, I've got several vacancies, but I suspect you're a bit overqualified for the position of Grocery Manager. If you get desperate, though, it's only a few hours down the coast in a fast boat!

Somewhat ironically, PF, I am actually experienced in supermarket management. I used to run the green grocery department in the Stevenage branch of Sainsburys three evenings a week back when I was in the 6th form

Is that greengrocery, or just green groceries: Jif Lemon, Cheese and Onion crisps, Lime Cordial, Becks beer, and so on.

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Surely Jif lemon comes under yellow groceries?

...and Walkers Cheese & Onion Crisps come in a blue packet, for some reason known only to them.

shows how long since I ate crisps - I thought blue was salt and vinigar!

how are things going GD - glad to hear the financials are under control

Well I'm out of the loop on the front. The only type that I ever eat are ready salted, which are in red packets if they're Walkers, and god alone knows what variety of colours if they're made by some other manufacturer

Never sure where I stand on the Cheese and Onion crisps debate. I mean, neither cheese nor onions are green or blue. And although I'm something of a traditionalist at heart, the only kind of cheese and onion crisps that I like are Walkers. So for my money, they're blue.

Cheese can be blue. And indeed green, if it hangs around teh back of the fridge too long.

Unless, of course, the cheese is stilton and the onions are spring.

See, makes perfect sense.

Obviously none of you read my entries...

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Ah, the Blue Bols debate

Ah yes. I'm not letting you near my PR entries again.

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But it was Gosho who did most of the complaining about that one.

I did not read the debate but a lot of people complain about blue bols!

Boom boom.

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Ah, that would be the sound of your blue bols knocking together as you shiver in the cold weather