Tags: interview, essays, window, family, home
Date: 14 December 2008 18:34:31
I was going to put lots of photos up, of the barge trip and of Helsinki (which was fab, I really liked it), but have been rather distracted this afternoon by the pain in the neck of coming home from church to find that someone had chucked something through one of my front windows. It only broke the outer pane (hooray for double glazing) but I had to get an emergency repair and organise a replacement, not helped by the insurance company being shut and loads of glaziers in the Yellow Pages having out of date or unobtainable numbers but being very helped by the Bank of Dad and by a very helpful glazier who came very promptly when I eventually found one who actually answered the phone. I'm sure it was just a passing vandal rather than a targeted attempt to break into our flat, so I don't feel really unsafe or anything, but it has reminded me of when I was burgled a few years ago in London and those memories really aren't very nice so I'd rather not be remembering them (and especially the hassle of getting the window fixed, which took nearly 2 months). So I've been having a bit of a Daily Mail hang'em and flog'em rant to myself and am v.cheesed off. Bah.
In other news, HD didn't get the Aberdeen job, but has another interview (not in Scotland) this coming Friday so hopefully something will come of that. And in other other news, my mum had an operation on Friday (it was meant to be at the end of this month but there was a cancellation so they phoned her up on Thursday and in she went), she seems to be recovering well though and I'll try to get to see her this week sometime. In other other other news, I'm trying not to think about the essays that were handed in a few days ago while I was away. Just the thing to cheer me up (not).