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Since my last blog, I’ve been somewhat irritated. I was packing the one day and the picker hadn’t checked the lid was tight on a bleach bottle. Not surprisingly, it leaked! Over my hands, over a couple of items in the tray… I had to do a major clean-up

Since my last blog, I’ve had the great fortune to come into contact with some special people. I don’t know if they were celebrities, or VIP’s of some kind. The first was in my place of work in the vegetable aisle: there were customers aplenty, and three

Today was a good day. For only the second time since I started working at the supermarket, I said no thanks to overtime. With my new contract now started, I’m working an extra 10 hours a week which is quite a lot, I think. I worked an extra hour on

This week, we seem to be returning to panic-buying. One day this week the store I work at was wiped out of pasta. Another day, the toilet roll aisle was well stocked, but by 9am, it was severely depleted. Flour is another, with a colleague stating one

With all the doom and gloom and crazy out there, I thought it would be good to focus on some positives. I love this cooler weather. This morning, away from the shelter and warmth of the trees near my street, there was a light frost on the ground. I was