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And another thing...
1 Hour Ago

I hate people who bounce cheques and I hate banks that take THREE BLOODY WEEKS to tell me cos I've got another 3 cheques banked that might well bounce too.

There's a reason I hate taking jobs from the estate I live on. In fact there is two.

1. They are NEVER IN at the time they've made the appointment for me to come and see them and I always have to come back.

2. They ALWAYS go on about how much it costs.

From now on I'm going to do what I wanted to do to start with. Just tell people I don't cover this area.

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Annoyed Cat Person
2 Hours Ago



Cat breeder rang up and wanted to book me for her holidays, which is great experience for me and a very good reference for all those kitty-cats she's selling to people who might need a cat sitter.

Sadly she's too far away, but got very snotty when I told her I only covered Brentwood - not towns 15 miles away. Apparently Google bring me up as covering 'all over Essex'. I can't find anywhere on my website that says that.

I also can't seem to find my magic teleporting device that would enable me to cat sit (or dog walk as I get lots of those too) anywhere in Essex and still make a living.

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Today's list - most of which I will ignore I spect
3 Days Ago

Write winter newsletter
Do cat sit
Wait in until the last minute for the windscreen man, only for him to turn up as it starts raining and say he can't do it because it's raining.
Finish homework - ie stop fiddling around trying to make it look nice and then fitting the words into the pretty boxes. Listen to Jimster - write it, THEN get it right (and pretty) so I can laminate it and feel all swotty.
Write winter newsletter again
Fire up J's birthday laptop and take off all the shite, add on all the time limits with me as admin ready for Tuesday
Work out how the hell I'm going to get all the dogs walked next week when it's all looking a bit over-crowded.
sort out my new colour wireless 3-in-1 printer I bought on spur of the moment and probably paid well OTT for, but it's black and nearly as shiney as my other printer (b&w only), which I bought when I went shopping for a wireless 3-in-1 but was seduced by the shininess of it
Write winter newsletter properly
Hugely enjoy the pleasure of walking My Own Dogs this afternoon because they pretty much do what I say and make me Look Good instead of incompetent
Try to fit pics of dogs into newsletter now printer is up and running and so have to rewrite it



How many hours in a day? 24? What?

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Update on Stuff to Do.
5 Days Ago

None. No update. It's back, it's looking mean, and my filing drawer has now spilled over into filing drawers.

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The rain it raineth while I'm walking about outside and not while I'm in the van all cosy
Last Week



Got home, quick change of socks, boots, waterproofs and coat and I've got to go out again.

Currently the sun is shining, and it's all lovely out there. But my last walk started like that (I even had my on!) and within 15 mins the rain fell as if, well, as if it RAINED REALLY HARD and it was so windy it was coming sideways. Struggle to the van, stand there getting wetter while trying to dry off two actually quite scared dogs a bit, hop in and the rain stops and the sun comes out.

(7 replies, Latest reply: 5 Days Ago)