State of the wombat

[curiouswombat]

I don't seem to have written much about life in general here for a little while.

It has been proceeding. I wrote about my day on Wednesday in monthlydiaryday here - it was a fairly ordinary day.

I have written about 6,000 words for my Back to Middle Earth Month story - but I can't post it here yet (or any of the other places I post stories), as it hasn't been revealed on the community yet. It has slowed down the next chapter of The Valinor Trail, but that is under way now, and the B2ME story is a Returnverse tale as well.

Yesterday D-d and I went up to Mum's and took her for lunch for the first time in a couple of months, as her arthritis and gout have been playing up so badly she hasn't felt like coming out. Then we took her for an optician's appointment. Fortunately the disabled parking space outside the opticians was available, and she had her rollator, so this went fairly smoothly.

The optician is, however, very worried about the blind spot that has developed in the middle of Mum's right eye (which was why she made the appointment), so she is asking Mum's GP to refer her to the ophthalmologist. It is one of the vagaries of our local services that the consultant ophthalmologist will only take referrals from doctors, not opticians.

My sister told me today that Slightly-goth niece has just been told she is to be made redundant later this year, a month or so before her wedding.

Brits who have been hearing so much stuff on the news about whether Big Banks will stay, or not stay, in Scotland if it becomes independent, will be somewhat amused, or possibly bemused, by the fact that this is because 'Barclays Wealth and Investment Management' are transferring her entire department's work to Glasgow.

Also - I've just been at our fortnightly on-line meeting to organise WriterConUK's event this year.

And people, friends of mine, if you didn't already know that this year's event will be in Coventry in September - then you do now - just GO HERE and sign up!

You get to see me! And these wonderful people - we are a really friendly bunch - why not just go for it? :)

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Mum doesn't use her rollator all the time - she often comes into town with just a stick, but I think she, too, was very glad of the seat especially, on Saturday.

We don't celebrate St Patrick's Day even though, as an island, we have a number of links to the actual saint - it is basically an American celebration. So nothing in particular planned for dinner tonight.

SGN says she wasn't surprised - in her role she became aware that a number of staff outside their department now had access to 'their' computer programmes; when she asked why she was told they were being trained to use it. When she asked why was that they muttered something about extra back-up in case there was ever a problem with the hardware her. She was not convinced - and rightly so.

[(Anonymous)]

I take it they didn't offer her the chance to transfer to Scotland? Why bother, now they get to train a whole new bunch of people, much to easy!

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I gather they are offering some of them the chance to transfer - but she and her fiancé have just bought a flat here, and he has a job here - so it was not likely that she would want to move - which they will be pretty sure is true of a number of the staff.