The Allotment

Did I tell you that wev'e aquired an allotment site?

It's not far from where we live so there's not much humping of spades and things to get there. I've already started the potatoes chitting and planted my tomatoe and lettuce seeds indoors. When the weather picks up a bit and the ground drys out, myself and the wife and probably the two youngsters will be down there digging it over and getting some manure in the soil.

Come the summer, with a bit of luck we should be eating fresh home grown organic veggies.

Might be some left over to make into lovely veg juice. Yummy!

The things they say

My little lass is getting to be a back seat driver and she's only just turned 7.

On the way home from the supermarket this morning, an emergency ambulance hove into view in my rear view mirror, sirens and blue lights going.

The little lass in the back pipes up, " There's a we waw coming up behind you Daddy so you'll have to pull in to the side and don't forget to put your tick tocks on."

I'll translate for you..

We waws are the sound emergency vehicles sirens make except fire engines which are ne naws and tick tock is the sound of my cars direction indicators.

She fair made me chuckle with her comment especially when she followed it up with, "Must be somebody hurt going to the hospital Dad."

The things they say.

PS.. We picked the girl who used to run a video shop, she starts on Monday.

Tum Te Tum

Hey, can't a bloke have an holiday every so often.

Yes I'm alive and still kicking. I must admit that I've become a bit lethargic about posting on the blog. I sit down in front of the screen and can't think of anything to write about even though a lot is happening.

I think that no-one wants to know that it was the little lasses birthday bash last week at The Fun Factory and I spent a lot of time keeping two 7yr old girls from trying to kill each other whilst stopping a 7yr old lad from biting his mate on the bouncy castle. When the food came out the same lad wouldn't eat anything. Guess he'd had his fill of his friend.

Then there was the lad's birthday party down at the local bowling alley. The kids (9yr olds) started arguing over which bowling ball they were going to use, When that settled down I found that they had beaten my score! The shame of it.

The last 2 days have been traumatic at work. I have a vacant post for an operator in the lab and I've been interviewing 12 hopefuls for the job. Iv'e managed to shortlist it down to five.

• A 20 yr old woman with some experience in the industry.
• A 23 yr old woman with no experience in the industry but she was the manager of a video shop and is very keen.
• A 56 yr old man originally from Barbados with a wicked sense of humour.
• A 35 yr old asian man who is a bit quiet but has a very good cv and would work very hard.
• A 50 yr old mum who wants to get back into a job after bringing up a family.

If you want to pick your favourite leave a comment. I'll tell you who gets the job next week after I've sat down with my assistant manager and decided.

Cheerio.