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Life - updated.
1 Jun 2006 10:30 pmThis is a general update post, as I haven't posted for a few days.
Firstly, mainly for my own information so that I can look back next year and compare, my sister, daughter and I had a grand total of £185.73 in the Christian Aid envelopes we distributed and collected - so a couple of hours well spent.
We start our in-church snack bar for the TT races tomorrow, I have baked a 13x9" carrot cake - 24 squares, and have another tin the same size just out of the oven with chocolate brownie in it, which I will top with peppermint cream and chocolate to finish it, and then tomorrow night I'll probably do banana cake in the same tins. Lots of people bake and bring it in on Sunday, so I usually do most of mine for Friday and Saturday.
Talking of church - the web-hosts seem to have our website up and running now - it is at www.standrewsurcdouglas.org if you want to see what has been taking up some of my time recently.
Daughter-dear has discovered that there is a lot to be said for having done a language right up to A level. She applied to a local job agency on line on Tuesday morning - they rang her on Tuesday afternoon and asked her to go in for an interview yesterday where they told her that there were, obviously, quite a lot of students looking for temporary work, but her German might well help. They checked her references by phone yesterday afternoon, and rang her this morning to offer her a general office junior type post at the offices of a shipping company. It's a German company with pretty big offices in Douglas, and someone who speaks German was a God-send to them. They finalise the details tomorrow, and let her know when she is to start! A summer of earnings will be a big help for living at university from September. Many of her classmates are still looking.
She is out with her friends making the most of TT fortnight - this is the only year that they are old enough for The Bushy's Beer Tent amongst other delights, and all at home together. The lesson of over-drinking has been well learnt - she has been out till the wee small hours a couple of times in the last week, and come home decidedly not drunk!
There is a link between TT and learning German - we get a lot of German visitors for TT, and D-d decided that she liked learning German when she discovered that she could ask them whether they wanted onions in their hot-dogs when she helped with the aformentioned TT Teas. These days she can always chat them up in the beer tent! (German bikers - not hot-dogs!)
I really am going to get on with Ten Years Afer 2 whilst I'm off work next week - honestly.
And finally - I have just been watching a programme on UKTVHistory - and the assistant director was called Prim Bath - honestly!
Firstly, mainly for my own information so that I can look back next year and compare, my sister, daughter and I had a grand total of £185.73 in the Christian Aid envelopes we distributed and collected - so a couple of hours well spent.
We start our in-church snack bar for the TT races tomorrow, I have baked a 13x9" carrot cake - 24 squares, and have another tin the same size just out of the oven with chocolate brownie in it, which I will top with peppermint cream and chocolate to finish it, and then tomorrow night I'll probably do banana cake in the same tins. Lots of people bake and bring it in on Sunday, so I usually do most of mine for Friday and Saturday.
Talking of church - the web-hosts seem to have our website up and running now - it is at www.standrewsurcdouglas.org if you want to see what has been taking up some of my time recently.
Daughter-dear has discovered that there is a lot to be said for having done a language right up to A level. She applied to a local job agency on line on Tuesday morning - they rang her on Tuesday afternoon and asked her to go in for an interview yesterday where they told her that there were, obviously, quite a lot of students looking for temporary work, but her German might well help. They checked her references by phone yesterday afternoon, and rang her this morning to offer her a general office junior type post at the offices of a shipping company. It's a German company with pretty big offices in Douglas, and someone who speaks German was a God-send to them. They finalise the details tomorrow, and let her know when she is to start! A summer of earnings will be a big help for living at university from September. Many of her classmates are still looking.
She is out with her friends making the most of TT fortnight - this is the only year that they are old enough for The Bushy's Beer Tent amongst other delights, and all at home together. The lesson of over-drinking has been well learnt - she has been out till the wee small hours a couple of times in the last week, and come home decidedly not drunk!
There is a link between TT and learning German - we get a lot of German visitors for TT, and D-d decided that she liked learning German when she discovered that she could ask them whether they wanted onions in their hot-dogs when she helped with the aformentioned TT Teas. These days she can always chat them up in the beer tent! (German bikers - not hot-dogs!)
I really am going to get on with Ten Years Afer 2 whilst I'm off work next week - honestly.
And finally - I have just been watching a programme on UKTVHistory - and the assistant director was called Prim Bath - honestly!
