Valley of the Trolley Dollies

Heeeeeeeeeewey! I am as busy as a busy thing in busy town on the busiest day of the year.

Work is crazy, but manageable.

Home: We had the Germen last weekend, and it was so much fun. Saturday was a lovely jaunt to Brighton, followed by a dinner for 5 that was almost handcooked by Yours Truly. Only the desert was shop bought. Hectic, and should have climaxed in a group trip to see Dolly. Long story, but let’s just say they ended up going without me or Mr H, who, having been forced to miss the concert, made Lemonade out of Lemons. The TorJen boys went home on Monday, leaving me with an almost new Home PC (well, it’s the same old one, really, but with so many new superpowers that I’m Christening it Audrey II), and the place feels a little empty with them.

Or rather, would have felt, if I’d been at home for longer than  a couple hours last night. Yetserday evening, it was Life Club, of which, more later, and tonight it’s off to see the lovely Danny in Naked Horse Molesting Mode.

More, when I have time…

This morning, I got the following from Ben at Stonewall. As he says “The vituperative and well-funded campaign to oppose these much-needed protections reached appalling depths of unpleasantness, as seen in Parliament Square yesterday, when small children of six, seven and eight were coerced into waving anti-gay placards. It has been a stark reminder of how much prejudice still exists in Britain and further evidence of the need for these new protections.”

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Every Tuesday at CBB, the departments have to meet with the Managing Director and tell him what we’ve been doing this week. It’s a commendable idea, soured only by the fact that most of my colleagues are prone to waffling (so I’m in good company), and several of them (The MD included) can speak English almost as well as I speak Japanese. This makes for sometimes long, sometimes confusing, sometimes Frustrating meetings where one is never actually sure whether half the assembled understood a word you said.

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