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Saturday, February 07, 2004
Last night was our work's farewell night out for JEM who has left us after almost 10 years, big stepping it into the sunset. We made it an extra special send off, having knowledge of a certain interest in the Fire Brigade, we managed to get hold of this Fire Engine Limo thing, which picks you up, takes a party of 8 a trip round the city and drops you off at your destination. Her face was a picture when it arrived and an even bigger picture when the leading firefighter did his lift and popped her into the back of the engine. Hats and bells for everyone and an abundant supply of the fizzy stuff. We met them at the restaurant later, JEM on the verge of extremely tipsy and clearly having enjoyed the experience immensely. Sadly, jimty was still malingering which meant he missed the thing. Following the restaurant we lost the younger folks as we went off in search of a pub with seats, which we found. An enjoyable night, with the team, or most of it. We did have fun mass txting jimty and time seemed to just fly past. In past events of this nature, most people have been pretty oiled by train home time and yet I still felt perfectly okay. I remained awake the entire journey home and thewife kindly picked me up at the station and got me chips and curry sauce from the Chinese on the way home.ANCHO (see earlier post) have responded, sort of, it goes like this:
"thany you for your e mail. I can advise that the fee is an annual charge. A meeting has been arrrange for the 12th February, you should recive a letter within the next 2/3 days inviting you to attend
yours sincerely
Rita Irwin
Owner Services Officer "
That was in response to a number of points, one of which was their competency to manage anything, let alone an estate. This is from the person with that responsibility. This is the person who's wages I am supposed to pay. For fuck's sake, how difficult is it to spell-check a bloody email.
Really fun part of this whole affair is that the chairperson of this mob is The Councillor (see post 3rd January 2004). I think this might get interesting.
posted by timesnewroman at 2:25 PM
