…humour or thoughtlessness
Last week one of the girls at work was commenting that the youngest member of our team will soon be turning 20. Then she went on to remark that she was old enough to be his mother and I was old enough to by his grandmother. I know I have joked in [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Reflecting on…
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2010
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The Old Joint Stock
After my Trade Union business on Thursday I decided to stay in the city for an evening meal to save the bother of cooking when I got home. I ended up in The Old Joint Stock, a Fuller’s Ale and Pie House.
The grade two listed building, built in 1864 was originally a library before it [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 23rd 2010
The promised snow did arrive over night and it was snowing like the clappers when I got up this morning. As I mentioned yesterday I had no choice but to go into work because I was on Business Improvements Delivering Excellence training. So there was nothing for it but to put my best foot [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Kent Autumn 2009
Ightham Mote – Gardens and Grounds
I think with all the snow and chilliness that we have been having recently I need to remind everyone of warmer days. We do have more snow forecast overnight, but we have been told we couldn’t use that as an excuse for missing the last session of our Business Excellence Course at work (not that [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 12th 2010
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Defence Committee End of Year Report
I have been saying to my colleagues for some time that I thought that the Defence Support Group was a prime target for privatisation with supporting reasons why. As usual they looked at me as if I was talking in some sort of foreign language and then moved swiftly on. So I was [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 11th 2010
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The Ice Rink
I was late leaving for work this morning due to the phone ringing and putting me off schedule. As I left the house I was dreading trying to open my car door due to it’s tendency to freeze shut and I didn’t want another near miss like I had on Monday. I also remembered to [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 7th 2010
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So That Was Christmas
Delays earlier this evening meant I have been in a mad rush to get all the Christmas decorations down. Now I know some of you will say they should have been taken down yesterday but my family has always done them on the 6th (unless they got bored of them earlier). So please [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2010
