Cold snowy week and more to come!

I thought it was about time I did an entry an gave an update on Andy.He's doing OK now, the headache lasted for over a week which caused us concern but it's gone now although he still aches more than normal. Maybe that's due to this freezing winter we're all experiencing. He went back to work so hopefully he'll be OK now. It was 21°F when I went out this morning, that's just too cold for anyone! Last night my friend rung to ask if I wanted to go to a local theatre to see a comedy act. I declined, partly because of the weather and mostly because I don't find these new wave comedians funny. I can't stand bad language, I find it really offensive, and I'm afraid most comedians these days rely to heavily on it for laughs. I did see that Ken Dodd was coming to Brighton in June, I want to see him ~ he's one of the old time comedians with genuine talent. I've heard too that he doesn't leave the stage till the audience has gone, sometimes he's stayed till 1am doing the show ~ now that's entertainment! I'm hoping that Andy can get the night off work so that we can go. On Monday we had a lot of snow, it started Sunday afternoon and just carried on through to Monday night. A lot of our staff didn't come into work that day. A few trekked in from out of town which I thought was a bit silly as they'd have to walk home in worse conditions that evening. I walked but it's a little less than two miles for me and I do it every day so I'm used to it. I also walk home every night which was a bit dangerous on Monday but I walked on the road where the cars had cleared it and didn't slip once. One of my staff had an accident. She was almost at work when she fell and landed on her backside, breaking her coccyx. She was in A&E for a while then they wheeled her over to us, we put her into a bed in the day case unit as the operating list was cancelled that day, she's still off sick. Most of the doctors who came into work on Monday stayed overnight in the day case unit as they couldn't get home and wouldn't have been able to get back to work next day. One of them told me it was quite exciting to spend the night on a ward in a childrens hospital! They're all big kids at heart!The snow's gone now but more's forecast for next week. Anyone know a number I can call to cancel it? Lol! I took a few photos on my way to work on Monday, it's quite unusual to see snow laying in the city centre. The top one is of people out sledding in Preston Park, I took it on my balcony with my zoom lens as it's a mile away from here.

This next one I didn't think was that brilliant but somebody on Flickr has commented and thought it was beautiful and wants me to add it to a group!

I found out this week that Lori from Lori's Letter Box did the cruise in January that I'm doing in April! An amazing coincidence! Andy actually wanted to go on the same date that Lori went but I thought it was too early in the year and we'd come back to cold weather. The change in temperature wouldn't do Andy any good so I'm glad we waited although it would have been nice to have met another fellow journaller while on holiday. I didn't know Lori was doing it back then, it'll be nice to read what she thought of it before we set off.

Work is still hectic with staff off sick and new staff to train. Last Friday they asked if I'd train twenty new staff as nobody else could do it. It took most of my morning and half the afternoon signing traing sheets. I signed my signature 700 times! I also had to stay behind on Wednesday till 10pm to train a new man. He does 2-10pm and couldn't be left alone on his first day. I had to be back at work by 8am next day as the other manager was off sick, I stayed till 8pm that night, I thought twelve hours was long enough! One day everybody is going to come to work and I'll be able to work my own hours and go home! I got a pay rise last week too plus back pay from last April. In this recession it was very welcome! Everything has increased in price and there are so many shops in Brighton that have closed or are having closing down sales. It's sad to see empty shop fronts and all the familiar shop names disappearing into obscurity. While everybody else is shedding employees to cut costs we seem to be taking more and more on.I've been on a diet for a couple of weeks and I've lost nine pounds so far. I'm on Wu Yi tea and acai berries which are meant to speed up your metabolism. I want to lose quite a bit of weight before our holiday. I'm getting off here now, I don't spend a lot of time on the computer these days.Stay warm out there, I hope this awful winter will end soon and we'll see some spring flowers emerging from the frozen ground.