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This past week has been 'interesting.' As regular readers will know, I was asked to swap a shift, and worked 6 days in a row. Monday night, the 6th day, I was exhausted. I slept for 6 hours solid which is a huge amount of sleep for me, got up for a

After much to-do, law breaking, lies, resignations, and sackings, the Fool in charge of this country has resigned. Honestly, I never thought he'd do it without the aid of a trebuchet. I feel now that he should not stay on as a 'caretaker' but should fade

This past week has been a busy one; the only day I didn't do any overtime was Wednesday. Lately, this is a very slow day for picking, and customers on site too. Not sure why... The one day, I was putting so much chocolate in the one crate that I was

This past week has been a mixed bag. The supermarket I work at is in the habit of moving managers around so that they don't get 'too comfortable.' Our store manager left some time ago, and it was sad to see them go. This week, for reasons unknown to me at

These past 2 days have been 'uncomfortable' to say the least. Monday, I was scheduled to work a 4-hour shift. It was warm work. After 3.5 hours, I overheard the supervisor asking people if they wanted to leave early as orders were down. I jumped at that,

My week off has been a busy one. Monday, as mentioned before, I picked up an extra shift. Tuesday was so hot that I barely did anything beyond laundry. Wednesday, I painted the kitchen. It has a lower ceiling than most of the house and wasnt too

This week, I've been in an ugly mood: Centrica, which owns British Gas, have posted half yearly profits of £1.3 billion. Shell earnings have topped $11.5 billion. BP profits are shown as $6.2 billion. These are not typos! In the UK, food and fuel

This week I've had a little money luck. I won £30 on the lottery. Not life changing lol, though every little helps. I also won the main prize on the work's raffle. There was wine, whiskey, an air fryer and so on. I won the big prize. It's the most