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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Ponies and Amontillado The apprentice has been in form of late. He has an evil streak, check here and scroll to the entry on Feb 3rd 2005 to get an idea of just how evil. He just recently told of a story of him wanting to watch cricket on tv, weird I know, when his daughter was quite young. In order that she didn't take over the tv and watch some nonsense, he explained that lovely prancing ponies came onto the cricket field every so often and would dance and show off their brightly coloured accoutrements. Every so often he would get her to pop into the kitchen for something, and whilst she was in there, he would yell "quick, the ponies are on." Needless to say by the time she got back into the living room, the ponies would have departed the cricket pitch. When his wife came in and saw the cricket on and child staring at tv, she asked if she wouldn't rather watch cartoons. "No" she replied, "I want to watch cricket" You wouldn't believe he used to be a residential care worker, would you?theboss called the apprentice into the office not so long ago for a word. One of our many tasks as a team is to carry out assessments of organisations who wanted to be included on a list of organisations accredited to provided social care services to Glasgow City Council. We check out their Standards, Policies etc, to make sure that they meet our minimum criteria. the apprentice has been our rottweiler in this role for some time, going through applications with a fine tooth comb and nitpicking every little item of concern. To say he's thorough is an understatement. Anyway theboss has him in her room and mentions that there's to be some training on these assessments. "That's great says he, I've been here for a couple of years now and wouldn't mind getting some training." "No, you don't understand says the boss, you're delivering the training!" Should have seen his face. A picture indeed. Still he deserved it.
Mumsy was on the phone to thewife, asking for her to get a bottle of Sherry whilst we were in town. thewife reckons it was only a fortnight ago that she last bought a bottle and Mumsy only has a glass of sherry before going to bed. Then suddenly it dawns on us that Mumsy's been getting more and more forgetful and we think perhaps that maybe she's been having more than one glass a night! Ahrggh!
posted by timesnewroman at 5:48 PM
