This past week has been a good one. We had notice that we're being given a second pay rise from November; it's not a massive rise however every little helps. They're also going to bring forward our pay review to the spring, so hopefully that'll mean more money too, earlier in the year than the usual August date.

We have 'new' contracts soon, and I've gone to great lengths to notify my manager that, in the main, I want to continue doing the job I was hired to do. Missives from the union lead me to suspect that we could be moved anywhere, and work any hours, with not a lot of notice. Hmmm. He's confirmed that mainly I will be picking as there's a lot of work for our section. He also knows that there's quite a lot of jobs I can't do due to age, arthritis, being a wussy girl - my words...

We've recently had free toiletries from work, and this week, there were snacks, biscuits, and some canned goods too, free for the taking. Much of it was end of line though we didn't waste time snapping up some goodies. After my lunch break today, I helped myself to a little pot of fruit in jelly. It was pretty nice. Don't know why they're not selling well.

I took chocs and jellies in today as it's my Birthday next week. Colleagues often take in goodies, and I frequently have some, so it was my turn to donate lol. I never try the cupcakes, or muffins that they sometimes have, but chocs, or small bags of jelly sweets are a nice sugar hit while we're working.

I managed to work 5.5 hours overtime this week. It wasn't too hard work though my feet and back are a little sore. I now have 3 days off to recuperate; I booked a day off on top of my usual 2 to use up some leave.

Customers were mostly good, though increasingly we're seeing, and hearing, some real brats in the store. Some need a swift clip around the ear though as most people know, parents aren't allowed to smack their children anymore, and boy do they know it! Hmm no smacking, would a flicked ear count? LMAO

Not much planned for the next few days apart from a dental checkup, nice lol, and a takeaway curry, hopefully, for my Birthday. We average 2 or 3 takeaway's a year lol - big spenders...

Take care and have a good week.