I was standing in the supermarket last night trying to decide what to buy, as a friend was coming over for dinner. A fairly old bloke came up to me and said "I saw you looking at the chicken. When bird flu gets here, you should stop buying it. They'll inject all the chickens with antibiotics." His embarrassed looking wife wandered over and said to him "Look now you've found someone else to tell. Let's go" and he said "But I have racing pigeons. I've been through all this before. When they got the injections it turned their heads round the wrong way." I thanked him for his advice and he wandered off. So there you go, if you go to buy a chicken for Sunday lunch and it's got its head on the wrong way, I'd advise against eating it. I think we can safely say I am quickly becoming the definitive source on all things bird flu related.
On other matters, I have finally been daring enough to submit my leave card to book some time off work. Our new leave year started on Wednesday and I was actually wrong about the amount of leave I am carrying forward. It is in fact 33 days, which gives me a grand total of 58 days leave to take this year. 58 days... isn’t that about three months worth of working days?
Anyway, I plan to take a week off at the beginning of April. I have one thing planned but have to think of things to fill up the other days. I have also booked a week off at the end of May, as I am off to Scotland for a week to go walking.
I must try and get some more ‘exotic’ travel in though. I am actually going to Madrid with work in just over a week’s time. But there is no way to extend the visit as I have to be back in the office.
I am flying out on the Monday and had considered going there for the preceding weekend but realised it is my nephew’s first birthday party on the Sunday. I did kind of raise the subject with my sister but was met with a stony silence. That’ll be a “no” to missing his party then.
I might go to The Gambia to visit a friend, but we’ll see. Anyway, ten and a half days booked off so far, only another forty seven and a half days to go...
4 comments:
Not trying to increase your paranoia at all.. but check last sentence, first paragraph ;)
OH HOW we laughed!
If you're struggling to think of ways to use your holiday you could always carry them over to this little bod in Wales. I'll email you my staff no. if you like. We can get the ball rolling sometime this afternoon; I'll just have a quick word with the finance dept.
I hang my head in shame. I will have to punish my little typing monkeys for making such an error.
Now corrected - and the monkeys have returned to trying to write the complete works of Shakespeare.
I’ll consider the whole leave thing, so do let me have your staff number and maybe your bank card and PIN number as well. *cough*
You could always donate your unwanted leave to those of us on a pitiful allowance! That way you alleviate your stress levels trying to use it all up. So..........a wee fortnight in October will be great thanks.
It's so nice to have such kind readers who are willing to alleviate my stress.
I'll keep it in mind, but you'd have to do something really exciting with it. No lounging about on a sunny beach. Maybe climb a mountain or something like that?
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