Thanksgiving fasting
There was an incident at work the other day during the new intake volunteer course. One of the volunteers displayed symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). The volunteer course can get a little boring in parts and by mid afternoon you can easily feel yourself fading. It emerged this lady was a diabetic, and she’d been […]
Flowers for Nan
I can’t help but admire the women I work with, each one a “super woman” with her own brand of intelligence and compassion. Ros and Jane have been of particular support to me in the past 10 days following Nan’s sudden passing. Ros gave me a very lovely thoughtful card and organised a bouquet of flowers […]
New treasurer
Looks like management have lined up a new treasurer, and he sounds alright not least because he has commitments until the end of 2009 and will probably leave me to my own devices until next year!
Chocolate at bedtime
One of my favourite comfort foods produces less than comforting results when I consume it just before bedtime! I was curled up in bed reading a book last night, with my cup of tea and some dark rum’n’raisin chocolate. I woke up this morning shortly after 4am with indigestion. Surely not the chocolate, could have […]
Audit time
It seems impossible to track down our auditor at this time of year, he must get fed up with so many organisations trying to get hold of him at the same time and doesn’t seem to return any phone calls or emails. Apparently my predecessor had this same problem last year. I’ve tried a different […]
Puppy rescue
Got to the pound shelter yesterday, first one there and noticed a box at the doorstep. Then a small head popped up, followed by another one. Some x!y%z# had dumped a couple of puppies onto us. A lot of dogs are being abandoned at the pound lately, and we’ve had call after call of people […]