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Posted Dec 2, 2003
What have I done?!
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Posted Oct 22, 2003
Today I was fortunate enough to have seen Concord on it's last flight out of Manchester.
I was outside with the kids when it came over 'The Biro' (the play area outside the nursery where I work), making one hell of a noise, it was great! Knew what it was even without looking, what a cutting figure it was as it roared over the city centre.
What a shame the kids (not to mention everyone else) wont get to see it again
Must tell them more about it tomorrow, & I think it's time to polish up those paper plane making skills!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/concorde/360/concorde_360.shtml
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Posted Apr 15, 2003
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You'll Never Walk Alone
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Posted Apr 15, 2003
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You'll Never Walk Alone
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An Illustration.
Posted Mar 20, 2003
I'd really like to share this with you, and would very much like to hear anyone's thoughts on this, should they come across my journal.
Last Friday for Comic Relief, at the nursery I work at we decided to hold a "Big Hairdo Disco" to raise money for the charity, we sent for a fund-raising pack to look for ideas & posters etc. The pack duly arrived, contained in which was a sweepstakes poster. It had 40 different Hairdo's to choose from, & a scratch off panel hiding a "'Do". To be in with a chance of winning £20, you could buy a 'do for £1. The point being that Comic Relief get £20, and the winner gets £20. Great Idea.
So I put the poster up in the staffroom, and duly harassed all the staff to purchase a 'do, probably 80% obliged, and of those all but one paid up right away. Then I asked the parents to have a go also, and by lunchtime Friday the poster was filled with names.
But when I came to count up the money I discovered that we were £2 short. Looking at the poster I could tell who the people were who had yet to pay up. One was a parent, who's child was off with the chicken pox, therefore I don't blame you!
However another was a member of staff, more specifically a member of management. She had swaned off on holiday without paying up, and was not due to return till after the fund-raising event. The poster had been displayed for 4 weeks prior to this holiday, and she was one of the 1st people to have her name down.
So I put the £1 in the pot, for both the absent parties, on behalf of Comic Relief, and scratch off the panel. Revealing the winner to be the manager who had not paid.
Now in my mind she had ample time to pay up, and no excuse not to have done so. It was my money in there, not hers & so I say that that money should have all been donated to CR, without question!
But today she finally made it back in to work, she was tipped off on my opinion regarding the situation by another of the managers, before I got chance to speak to her in person. Therefore the 1st thing she said to me today was "I believe your comic relief Disco went really well..." Yes it did, I told her, then "But I have good and bad news for you..."
"I didn't pay you cos I you were on holiday" She said. Now before I left I left a cup in another member of staff's locker to collect any incoming money, The last thing I did before I left was to tell her about this. Of course she completely denied that. She then proceeds to tell me that she will donate £10 back to CR, making it clear that she still expects the money to be paid to her despite the fact that she has yet to put any of her personal money in the pot - ('what a 
' I think [can I say bitch here?]) & say "Thanks, lovely".
Anyhow, my thoughts were amplified about an hour later when I take a crispy £10 note to the office ( I did deliberate weather or not to take £9 in one pound coins, but perhaps as a test, perhaps as a vindication of my thoughts, I took the note). She took it. "You do realise you still owe £1, don't you?" I asked her, to which she replied.
"You cheeky thing, take it out of the £10!" she said as I was walking away "OK I donated £9."
No you complete , you donated _nothing_, you fraudulently took £10 away from a *Charity!* You make more money than all but one person who works here and you wont even let £10, which is not rightfully yours, go to people who absolutely *need* it.
Anyway this has been playing on my mind all day, the more I think about it, the more angry I feel. Venting here has helped, I hope that people might read and understand, and think 'What a ' too, oh and by saying it here, I wont get fired, which is the only thing stooping me from saying it at work!
Anyway I feel I am right, and she is very very wrong, & that too helps.
to her, just know I will be thinking "ing " tomorrow when I see her.
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