Monday, 16 January 2012

All Things Maritime


Parts of this week have been lots of fun. Others, not so much… So let’s get those bits out the way up front.

The boiler breaking on the day the weather decides it’s had enough of the unusually mild January temperatures was not ideal. The mercury has plummeted and so has my desire to get out of my warm bed in a morning and into an ice cold shower. I’m bored of winter already and I fear it’s only just starting… Mr Boiler Fitter has been here all day Sunday and now all day Monday and still says he needs another day to get it finished – after Googling ‘time it takes to fit a new boiler’, I think he might be taking the piss a bit.

The Boat Show 2012
Anyway, enough of moaning about the weather and it being cold in winter…

I’ve now finished my second full week in the new placement and it’s still going well and I’m getting a better idea of what this team and area of IM is all about. I’m going to be taking over some responsibilities from a couple of people who are moving on to different departments so next week will be about making sure I know what I’m doing so I can take over seamlessly. I also found out today that one of the guys I'm working with has written a book! And I have downloaded it to my Kindle. And I will plug it for a second time in the PSs below. I think it's brilliant that anyone can now release a song or write a book!!

I also had my end of placement review with my manager from the placement I’ve just finished and a 3-month review with the scheme sponsor (before he leaves and we get a new sponsor on January 20th) – both went very well.

All aboard!
This weekend has gone so quickly! I headed up to Stratford Westfield on Saturday morning to pick up a few things and meet Mr Brook. We picked up some breakfast-to-go and headed back to the house to drop off his enormous(!) bag. Once we’d breakfasted we set off for the Boat Show 2012, currently on at the ExCeL (just a sort DLR ride from the house). One of James’ Events Management MMU friends works at the ExCeL and said we should poop down. ExCeL is massive, it even has two DLR stops depending on which end of the building you’re looking for. There were loads of activities going on. You could have a go at wake boarding or kayaking or sailing but we gave that a swerve because we just knew we’d be the two plonkers to fall in! Instead, we headed over to the Big Boys (technical term) to have a look around a £1m, ‘sports family day boat’. It was incredible and most likely the only time I’ll be on one so we made the most of it and took lots of photos! It had two double bedrooms, a twin room, full kitchen, sitting area, sun deck, plasma screens...etc etc... amazing!

Old Royal Naval College.
I spent Saturday night hiding from the cold in the house and watching the NFL Playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers. Every year, just after the Super Bowl I always think I’ll get into NFL a bit more (starting with the Draft), but this year I’ve finally done it – since September I’ve been checking in with scores and streaming games when I can. I haven’t got a team yet but I inexplicably root for Baltimore (probably because of Michael Oher and The Blind Side), Seattle, New England and New Orleans. The Super Bowl is at the beginning of February so I’m sure I’ll waffle on a bit more about it then.

24hr Clock
I hadn't decided what I was doing on Sunday until the morning of.. and after watching NFL until 2am I would have been more than happy just to stay in bed all day but thought I should make the most of the weekend while it was bright and VERY sunny. I hadn't been back to Greenwich since that fateful house-hunting day back in August when I got completely lost up Maze Hill on the way to a viewing and a man came to pick me up in his van and small children in the back… I’d rather not relive that here… (oh dear, that sounds way worse than it was supposed to!).
Anyway, I jumped on the DLR and headed down the stop at the Cutty Sark (not Greenwich proper) and wandered around a bit until I found the Greenwich Market where I bought some lunch (spicy lamb and chorizo wrap - proper lush) and found a bench in the grounds of Greenwich University to chow down. I walked along the Thames Path for a while, for longer than I meant to, until I realised I didn’t know where I was going anymore but thankfully managed to find my way back through a maze of cobbled streets and cottages to the main road. I headed towards the grounds of the National Maritime Museum but carried on up the hill towards the Observatory.


View from the Observatory - Phone camera doesn't do it justice!


Nelson's Uniform -
Tiny!!
What a cool place! Amazing views across London and the chance to stand on the meridian (although I didn't actually do this - I'm saving it until both Brennan sisters come to visit in Feb) at the home of Greenwich Mean Time – needless to say it was full of excited tourists and I don’t mind admitting I was one of them. After a while I headed back down the hill and into the museum to learn all about Admiral Nelson, the East India Trading Company, the discovery of the Americas and how good the UK was at all things nautical. The museum is great and FREE - Bonus. I'd definitely recommend it.

Eventually I felt my late night catching up with me so headed back to the house in time to catch the 3rd of the four NFL games this weekend and the grand finalĂ© of Sherlock Holmes – Brilliant! For anyone who follows Sherlock, I think I know how he's done 'it' (don't want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't cought up on iPlayer yet!)... Roll on series 3!! 

This week I’m meeting friends for dinner and drinks and seeing Ed Sheeran in Brixton on Friday with some Manchester friends who are here for a visit!


Until next time,

Bren x


PS, I got a Kindle for Christmas and I’ve never read so much so quickly! Currently reading Before You Go To Sleep – it’s excellent so far, I recommend. I also MASSIVELY recommend you download Mashed-Up Queen of Heaven, a dark comedy with the strap line, 'If you are looking for a happy ending - jog on!' by DJ Bidewell.

PPS, This was a long  and rambly blog and I’m sure I forgot a few things I wanted to mention – damn it.

PPPS, More pics from my weekend:















Monday, 9 January 2012

A New Year, A New Placement.


Christmas, New Years and all that relaxing business seems so long ago! This week I’ve mostly been getting my head around the TfL world of Service Transition. I’ve started my new placement. A new building, a new team, and lots of new things to learn.

I got back to London last Monday evening after recovering from the brilliant New Years Eve party at Colgate Crescent and pretty much went straight to bed. Alas, two weeks of late nights and long lay-ins meant my body clock was having none of it. My radio alarm went off at 7am on Tuesday and to my horror the nasty beats of Skrillex were blaring out – don’t you just love a Zane Lowe breakfast show…

After recovering from the Skrillex wake-up, I started out on my new commute – and all of a sudden I was at work. That’s right, my new commute means I can get door to door in just 20 minutes…pretty rare in London I’d say! After introductions to the team and sorting out my desk (filling the draw with stationary and proudly display my coffee mug) I started a week of listening!.. That’s pretty much all I’ve done since I started; talking/listening to all of the different teams within the Service Management department, finding out what they do, how they work with the different teams in the rest of IM and asking lots of questions! The team that I’ll be working in is Service Transition – making sure new systems are ready to be supported by us once they ‘go live’ on the network. It looks like I’ll be taking over a portfolio of Suface Transport/Small Works projects as well as taking on the project quotations procedure to ensure we (STrans and the wider Shared Services dept) charge each project an appropriate amount for the service and support we provide. After one week, and with the first impressions firmed up, I think I’m going to like it at the Pier Walk office. From where I sit I can see the Dome/O2 (we’re right next door), the Olympic Stadium and the beginnings of the newCable Car across the Thames. Lovely.

Saatchi Gallery
Gardens outside the Saatchi
After a long week (albeit only four days!) the weekend called for a more relaxing pace. I didn’t have any plans so decided it was the perfect opportunity to delve back into my box of 50 London Walks. Since I moved down here in September I hadn’t made the time to explore south-west London at all. And, partly due to hearing about the Northern Line extension to Battersea in work I decided to head to see the iconic Battersea Power Station. I know, it’s a ruin and it’s fenced off and, ultimately, there isn’t much to see but Iwanted to see it before the surrounding area is full of trendy wine bars andshiny apartments and looks nothing like the Pink Floyd album cover. I thought while I was down that way I’d have a nosey around the Saatchi Gallery just off the Kings Road – it was great! And I wandered around the more residential parts (where the London 1%ers live) before heading through Battersea Park (via the pretty impressive Albert Bridge) and along the Thames Path to Vauxhall. Exhausting!

Albert Bridge
Iconic
Sunday I slept until noon. Damn it! Just enough time to sort out breakfast and tune in for the Manchester derby. A nervy last 30 minutes but we dragged ourselves over the finish line and into the 4th round draw…only to draw bloody Liverpool at Anfield!! Other Sunday nothingness included watching two crap films, Adventureland and Broken Flowers, searching for decent books for my Kindle, reading Travel Blog articles about NZ and…ironing.

Unfortunately, plans of a trip to Bedford this weekend have fallen through (100+ end of year school reports to write…I don’t envy you Gemma!) but I’m sure I’ll sort something out what with Mr Brook being in town..
Random Peace Pagoda
in Battersea Park

Oh, I’ve also signed up to become an ICSA (Incident Customer Service Agent) so, during the Olympics, I could be working on a station near you! It takes about 4 and a half days training and a couple of practical test too… And speaking of tests, I hear we’ll be getting the results of the APM IC exam sometime next week – argh…

But, of course I’ll keep you updated with all that next week.

Until then,

Bren x


PS, Horrible Housemates Update: One of them is moving out!... Sadly, not the worst offender. I live in hope...

Saturday, 31 December 2011

What an Epic Year.


It has been a good one eh?.. For me anyway…soz if you’ve had a shitter.

New Years Eve has arrived and I’m excited to see in 2012. But first, let’s rewind to way before today, Christmas or even before I headed north for the break… Let’s go back to Tuesday 20th December. 7pm. The O2 arena. And the awesomeness that was Rihanna.

This last minute trip to the O2 all came about thanks to Rosie (THANKS LOVE!) who sent me the tickets a few days before. But…I missed the post man and had to find my nearest sorting office. That, in itself was a mission and when they told me three times that they had no record of receiving anything for me I thought it was game over and I’d not get to see Rihanna after all… And then, just two hours before the doors opened I made one last ditch attempt to get the tickets and the FANTASTIC and lovely Royal Mail staff told me they had got the letter and I could collect it immediately. And that’s what I did. I jumped off the tube I was on, sprinted to the other platform (actually quite a distance, up and down several flights) just before the doors closed – result! I got the tickets, found out they were STANDING and that Calvin Harris was supporting – amazeballs. Becca met me at the front doors, we grabbed some beers and danced our way towards the front. WHAT A SHOW. I’ve put some photos at the bottom of this post but, to summarise, the whole night  was great and I’d definitely recommend that if anyone gets the chance to go see her, do!

And so onto Christmas.
Christmas Snooze
Dad. And cats.










You know when you go to see stand up comedy?... and you come out wanting to tell all the jokes and realise you can’t because they weren’t really jokes, the person was just…funny. Well that’s what’s happened. I wanted to tell you about a typical Brennan family Christmas, but I can’t because there isn’t anything I can tell you about. It’s a ‘you’d have to have been there’ sort of situation. There are obviously story type topics…burnt food, board game rules debates, spilt booze, waltzing around the kitchen, cross-world Skyping, screaming at EastEnders, and I could go on. But I won’t. To summarise, Christmas was well great – the best in ages. And I loved being home for a whole week. I got to see family and friends and have a proper giggle with the sisters and mum and dad.

And so onto today and the past couple of days.
DINNER
I’ve been in Manchester for a while and had the best night out and worst hangover already. We’ve decided that our 20’s should be sponsored by Carlsberg and Dominoes/Pizza Hut (I still can’t decide). What an ace crowd of mates – simple fabulous. Tonight brings the now traditional House Party of The Year courtesy of JenLa and other hosts and  homies.

Strawpedoooooo!
This year has been crazy. I’ve finished uni, moved to the Big Smoke and started my proper-adult-grown-up job, said farewell (for now) to lots of friends and made new ones. I definitely get the feeling that 2012 will be totally brilliant; my trip to New Zealand/Australia in April (Which I have now booked flights for!!), the Olympics in my back garden (pretty much), my New Years resolution, and generally having a great time.

In a few short (hungover) days I’ll be back down south ready to start my second placement, in a new office, with a new team. And now I’ve had a while at home I feel totally recharged and ready to get going.

Christmas Skype from Chile!
Lots of thank yous to all the people who have made 2011 the brilliant year it has been…so many I couldn’t list you all individually but know that I’m so grateful to have a great group of friends, mates, pals, family peeps, people I don’t see nearly enough, pets cats, etc etc… Thank you all.

Have a great night everyone, wishing you all the very best start to the new year and look forward to seeing you all soon.

Until then,


Bren x


PS,

SONG(S) OF THE YEAR: Pitbull, Give Me Everything // Lady Gaga, Edge of Glory

EVENT OF THE YEAR: Graduation (and the days and days of subsequent partying)

WEIRDEST MOMENT OF THE YEAR: I moved to London………….weeeeird.

PHOTO OF THE YEAR: Pet Cemetery, Anglesey.




PPS, More from Rihanna..





Sunday, 25 December 2011

Merry Actual Christmas


SANTA'S BEEN!

Finally, the day is here!... Racing downstairs at the crack of dawn, tearing open the presents, scoffing our faces and playing in all the snow.

Or, in reality…

Being roughly awoken by sister number 2 (who is 21 years old) at 10.30am as she impatiently waits (or not!) for everyone to get their acts together and get downstairs. Oh, and it’s pissing it down, not a snowflake in sight.  But no matter! We pop on a Christmas DVD (The Inbetweeners Movie – don’t ever watch this with parents. Or children.), crack out the booze and play the Aladdin (ITV 1pm) drinking game (OK, that was just me), sort out Christmas brunch (we’ve done the same breakfast every year for as long as I can remember) and by 2pm we’re ready for present opening. Lovely.

And I got some cracking presents!...
A kindle(!), the Rough Guide book ‘Make the Most of Your Time on Earth’, a book about how cool maths is (not even kidding), a tent (I *heart* camping), and lots and lots of smellies!


Cheers, Santa lad!


Beautifully Decorated.
This is just a quick Christmas day blog, to say hello and
Merry Christmas
and I hope that everyone is suitably tipsy, had a bloody good dinner and is about to enjoy the traditional Christmas nap.
We're about to eat; I can smell the roasties and pigs in blankets and mum has had to banish us all from the kitchen...

I’ll be doing the normal weekly blog in a few days with loads to tell you about! My last minute dash to see Rhianna in concert, strange Brennan household Christmas traditions and the results of Boxing Day Board Game Bedlam…


Until then,


Bren x



PS, The BEST moment of Christmas day so far has been dad, laughing himself to tears, whilst reading my *Web Page of the Week*...College Humour Facebook's History of the World. Enjoy!

Sunday, 18 December 2011

I Want Snow…But Not ‘til Friday.


Where the flippin’ ‘ek has 2011 gone?!...
One week until Christmas and another until the New Year! It has certainly been a busy one. Lots of changes and I’m still getting used to all this new-ness…but luckily I’ve got a couple of weeks off work and back up north to get back to what I know best: family, friends and too much food and booze. Which is why, when I heard the reports of all the snow this week I was:

A) totally confused because we approximately 0mm of snow in East London and

B) slightly panicked because I know how the UK can grind to a halt when we ‘unexpectedly’ have 3cm of snow…the trains go crazy and if I can’t get home on Thursday evening I’ll be ringing dad and getting him to jump in the car and collect me!


To say I’m excited to get home is a massive understatement. I love a good Snow Day, but not before Friday!!
Note to self: Really Rachel, it’s high time you learnt to drive, BOTH of your little sisters can and it’s getting a tad embarrassing.

This week I’ve had an exam, been on a boat, fallen over…twice and braved the biggest shopping centre in Europe.

Mr Brook
Let’s start with this exam. I’ve mentioned it a couple of times before; it’s the APM IC exam. 1 hour, 60 multiple choice questions… Sounds easy right? Wrong! Well, it probably could have been easier but I was a bit underprepared but I did my best and I’ll have to wait for the results to come through in the post in a few weeks. Fingers crossed folks!

Messes
I felt really unwell during the early part of this week, but I perked up enough to attend the event of the year!...well maybe not but it was a bloody good knees up: The TfL Grads Christmas Party 2011! Mr Brook very kindly travelled the length(ish) of the country and back to accompany me upon the Golden Flame for a night of boozing and dancing down the Thames and back. It was a great night but after finding myself face down on the floor of Walkabout for the second time, I thought it was about time to call it a night and James and I headed for the night bus…and from there my memory is pretty hazy.

The Golden Flame (not my picture)
After saying goodbye to James (not that I remember that very clearly) early on Saturday morning I did absolutely nothing. All day. In fact the only times I spoke were to say thanks to the Pizza Hut delivery man and a muttered ‘afternoon’ to one of the housemates (have no idea which one, I barely had my eyes open). No, after a night on the cheap white wine, shots of SoCo and Captain Morgans (because ‘it’s Christmas so we might as well’) all I could manage was a solid 24hrs in bed. And I’m OK with that.

Today I was fully prepared to do the same but that really would have left me with very little to write about (and I’m pushing it as it is..). So, reluctantly, I headed to Stratford Westfield to get the Christmas shopping out of the way. And it was quite possibly the most successful shopping trip ever. Armed with my list and a pen I headed from shop to shop like a professional. I would love to name one of the shops for being particularly helpful but I’m afraid that’d give the game away so maybe I’ll publically thank them after Christmas, but realistically probably not. Really great customer service, especially once I made it clear that I had no idea what I was buying…
 
All in all a very successful week! Now, just four short days in work and then, home. Before then.......wrapping!


Until next time,

Bren x


PS, I’m not proud of this but feel the need to get it off my chest. First, mum…I can only apologise. I’ve never done this before but I got a craving and just couldn’t stop myself:

I ate all the chocolates in my advent calendar :’( SORRY!


PPS, Not sure I’ll blog over Christmas. I’ll have nothing to say because all I do at Christmas is sit on the couch eating too many chocolates and far too many roasties. But we’ll see. - Oh I just remembered, I will blog...because I need to tell you about my trip to see Rihanna!!!


PPPS, Some other pictures from the boat party:


County Hall..?

Cruising on the Thames


Illuminating!





Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Christmas Came Early


Not my photo..

Hello to you, and welcome to the pub quiz I went to at the Simon The Tanner pub, last Tuesday…

Question 1: What poison was the Greek philosopher Socrates forced to drink when he was sentenced to death in 399 BC?

No I hadn’t a clue either. Turns out its hemlock. No, I had never heard of it either. And as several similar questions were asked I began to wonder if I’d come to a pub quiz that was a bit out of my league. Things took a turn for the better (mainly due to the picture round) and the team came 4th out of 7 (I’m happy with that) and won the £10 bonus question (I'm hugely happy about that) which I answered correctly:


Bonus Question: In which year did the footballing term ‘Linesman’ officially become ‘Lines Person’?

It was 1996.
We spent our winnings on shots of whiskey which we sipped (no, really!) triumphantly.

On Thursday and Friday I wasn’t in the office. Instead, I was at the West Kensington building for a Presentation Skills course which, on the whole, was excellent. Except for one thing… ‘breathing exercises’. I breath just fine, thanks and I certainly don’t need to be stood in a circle with strangers, eyes closed, swaying forwards and backwards to do it. Apparently it was supposed to make us feel ‘relaxed and comfortable’. Well, I for one felt neither, in fact I felt the exact opposite and my 8 year old self took over and I giggled myself all the way through the exercise.
Unexpected Friday Outing
Around lunchtime of day 2 I was rather willing the weekend to hurry up but I made it to the end of the day (even if my colleagues did keep asking unnecessary question meaning we finished at 5pm!) and headed straight for Euston.

'They play a lot of Elvis
in here don't they...'
Yes, it was another Manchester weekend (sorry dad). This weekend had been planned for ages. Friday night involved an unexpected night out (who am I kidding?) where I met up with friends and bumped into others. Feeling a tad delicate, I had to drag myself through Saturday, but couldn’t so dragged Naomi round to cook for me instead. After a lunch of cheesy Super Noodles (she’s no Nigella…) I did manage to pull myself together and head out for a trip to the Manchester Christmas Markets for a Bratwurst with the actual oldest of old school girls followed by a night out on the town (including an accidental encounter with an Elvis Night), a Popolino’s and a bus journey home that I can’t particularly remember but we can all* relive via the magic of phone-videoing at the bottom of this post.

DINNER!..finally.

Crackers!
Then came Sunday, aka Colgate Crescent Christmas Day. Lovely! So we peeled and chopped and prepared the dinner (read: we did as we were told and generally kept out of Jen’s way in the kitchen) and along the way avoided a potentially disastrous Secret Santa related incident. Guests arrived around 4pm and dinner was served at 4.30, no 5pm… no no, about half an hour, in 20 minutes I promise, OK definitely before 6.30pm… I was so close to passing out** from hunger when we ate so I’m not 100% sure what time it was, and I really didn’t care because IT WAS DELICIOUS!


Then came the aforementioned Secret Santa gift-giving, an X-Factor Final Party, Pass-the-Parcel (or is it ‘Parcel Parcel’, Cam??), a Christmas Quiz, Ring of Fire, too many desserts, Articulate, Elton John and bed (not so much a bed as a couch, damp from wine spillage). 3 hours later I had to get up, into a taxi and straight down to London on the 5.55am train and into work! I was exhausted but it was worth it – such a great day.

Colgate Christmas

Troffee Trio - Jen, Soph, Rose
In between all of that, we all said our final goodbyes to Sophie who is heading back home to Kenya for a while and will be hugely missed by all. GOOD LUCK SOPH!

Yesterday I managed to get through the day on plenty of strong coffee and then slept for 12 hours last night - bliss. Today I feel I could probably sleep for 12 more but A) I have lots of revision for my APM IC exam which is tomorrow morning and B) Holby is on at 8 and who would miss that?!...not me, that’s for damn sure.


Until next time,


Bren x


* Well, all except me. Far, far too embarrassing.
** Probably an exaggeration.


PS, This weeks Website Of The Week is an easy one: Twitter. Get involved people. My top-tips on ones to check out would be HumbleBrag (very funny if you get it) and my all time favourite, FirstDateHell. To read the original First Date Hell tweets as they came in, visit the Crap Dates website. Enjoy!


PPS, Other photos from the weekend...


PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Only took 2 hours to get the
seating arrangements just right






















PPPS, I'm kind of hoping you've forgotten about this by now............ A video of me, drunk and talking shit about things you can't do in London. 'Thanks' go to Rosie. Note to self: get better stories.



Monday, 5 December 2011

Onesie Weekend


NOTE: As I mentioned last week, I visited the Turner Prize exhibition. Turns out it was awarded Tonight and the prize was only £25k not £40k… Silly me.


This week I did something way cooler…

I VISITED THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE!

As you may or may not be able to imagine. IT WAS AMAZING.


Regents Park
Yes, on Wednesday, since every bugger else was having a day off, I went along to the TfL Lost Property Office with the other IM Grads and Apprentices for a tour of the building and to have a nosey at all the weird and wonderful things they have there. We sold it as a IM related trip (and not just skiving) because the LPO is migrating over to the OneLondon system very soon (there are only around 300 users left on the old system, out of 25000+ users) and TfL IM is currently developing an upgrade for the lost property database and tracking system that is currently used, Holmes. Anyway, I absolutely wasn’t there to hear about systems stuff – show me the brollies!

Lunch buddy
HUNDREDS of them. Vans drive around to stations and depots collecting things that have been left on tubes, DLRs, buses and Overgrounds and bring them back to the LPO, just around the corner from Baker Street station. Everything gets sent down a shoot and sorted into 13 different categories (none of which I can remember). All items are logged in Holmes and tagged and sent down to the storage rooms. This is where the good stuff is... bikes, bags, single gloves, toys, shoes, keys, manikins, STUFF. And the LPO only keep items stored there for 3 months, after that they get sent down yet another shoot to the sub-sub-basement where things are sorted into 3 final categories – Give To Charity, Sell Covertly on EBay, or CHUCK (which involves recycling and sustainable good things….probably). Following the tour we headed to Regents Park for a spot of lunch and a slow dawdle back to the office.

December 1st

So that was fun!


Thursday (the first day of December and advent calendar fun!) drifted by in a non-eventful blur that involved…something and nothing or something else, followed by a night out with some current and ex IM Grads. And then, already, it was Friday again! Time for Onesie Weekend! And it’s a good job a Onesie Weekend had been agreed because in my hungover state my DANGER PACKing skills on Friday morning were somewhat lacking and I left London with very little else!



ONESIE!


Sarah
Me
I arrived in Westhoughton to rain (and then SNOW!) that didn’t let up for the entire weekend and so I didn't do much other than couch sitting, tea drinking, newspaper flicking and channel hopping all day Saturday but on Sunday I headed into to Manchester with mum to see Sarah Millican at Manchester Apollo!! We saw her last Tour (which is now out on DVD) in Bolton about a year ago and she was hilarious so I bought tickets for this tour way back in March this year – it was definitely worth the wait, she is brilliant!


On Monday I went into Manchester to meet up with people I haven’t seen in about 15 years – so that was weird – and of course all the old photos came out… and I made a pit stop by the Manchester German Markets which I’ll tell you more about next week.
Next week!


This week I’ll only be in the office Tuesday and Wednesday then I’m off on a course Thursday and Friday!... Easy this working lark ain’t it?!


Until next week,


Bren x


PS, I've loved this website for quite some time but it has made me laugh ++ this week so...
My Website of The Week: Damn You Auto Correct