Lucretia_73

Another vote for Spangles. Cabana bars. And old Wham bars - the big ones that used to rip out your fillings. The new ones are far too easy to eat without dental trauma.

Booo I love A7X. Gonna do some googling for more info. RIP The Rev.

I drove home along Carlisle Street the other night and passed this bright white light with loads of smoke rising from it - one of the industrial units looked like they were having a big fire or something. It was really bright, could see it from Burngreave and I tried to have a proper nosy as I drove past but there is fencing all around the place. I'm thinking the sky flickering effect could have been due to this. God only knows what they were burning!

You know he loves you if he says it AFTER he's had sex with you. But not just after, as men will come out with all kinds of drivel then!

This whole pay and grading thing seems to have been a farce from start to finish - booze up and brewery come to mind. I have a substantive job in NCC and am on secondment in CYPD. I got two letters on Saturday telling me I wouldn't find out my pay for a fortnight because they screwed up the CYPD letters/database. Two letters. For a job that I won't be in after March. The job I care about, my substantive post, I was meant to get my letter on Monday but no go. Apparently there has been a problem with some of the letters. 150 people in NCC have not had a letter but my name isn't on that list, oh no. They don't know why I haven't had my letter. Something to do with me not being in my substantive job. And yet all along it's been job role and not person in the job so my job role is still there so where is my letter?! I have no idea what I'm going to be paid. I can't believe anything I'm told as I've had contradictory information from every corner. Some people have been well and truly shafted. As for the 80% whose wages will remain the same or increase and 20% will go down - so far everyone I've spoken to has lost out so it seems more like the other way round to me. My actual job doesn't really fit my job description, but I have been told they decide on the job description and not on what you actually do, so no change there then. Also, much to my bemusement, they got the number to ring about the review wrong on all the letters that they did manage to send out. Now that is truly hilarious. Thousands of letters withheld in CYPD, and of the ones that did go out, a wrong phone number on all of them. Absolutely brilliant. Organisation of the highest order... And so I still wait for a letter I now don't expect to receive at all. In fact I expect to receive my CYPD letter for the job I am currently doing, that I won't be doing when all this comes into effect, so it will be completely irrelevant, before I get my actual NCC letter that affects my life, future plans etc. And I wonder who are the people who threw a bunch of job descriptions into a hat, pulled them out like lottery balls with their 'matching' new job family and then well and truly screwed up an already hideous mess. Apparently there was consultation with managers. I don't know who these managers were - certainly none that I know of. Rant over. Until next week.

It was definitely a memorable gig with the collapsing people and barrier. Slipknot are always awesome. My only issues, the vocals sounded a bit muddy and no Wait and Bleed:(

Ssssshhh don't shout about it - I don't want it to sell out before I get tickets!!

I'm going to look on the website and see if there is a contact available. I've calmed down a lot now though - having had a bath, washed my hair, and put everything I was wearing in the washing machine. I suppose I should expect that kind of thing really living in the building site that Sheffield is at the moment. I guess it could have been worse - I've heard that if you walked too close to the old Kelvin flats you got showered with TV's and sometimes residents...

I felt violated! Ewww..dirt.

I am so annoyed!! And I don't even know who to shout at! I have just walked down Duke Street, on my way to work in town this afternoon. I usually walk past Park Hill flats and today I got a very unpleasant surprise. I was just walking past the corner of where the flats end and I thought it had started raining as I could feel wet spray on my face. Then it seemed to stop after I kept walking for a few seconds and I looked down and I was covered in wet sandy coloured spray! I could hear some kind of machine which presumably was making this mess, but I didn't expect an impromptu shower. I am now covered in filth and look like I've been sleeping on a building site and I have to sit in an office all afternoon looking a state! All I want to do is go home and get in the bath. My clothes are covered in this fine spray and I had to wipe a load off my face, in my eyes, on my bag, even on my feet. Yuk! I spent the rest of the walk into town bruching frantically at my clothes and face to regain some semblance of respectability but I feel disgusting and dirty and very very cross! Who do I ever shout at about this? The contractors at Park Hill for not putting signs up saying cross the road?? The Council? The world? Where can I vent my frustration? Other than on the forum of course. Least I can warn people...it's not safe to walk past Park Hill flats today! Unless you fancy a desert style sand shower...

Be grateful they only gobbed on it and didn't key it or slash the tyres. There are worse things that can happen - cars can be cleaned. And it's not even corrosive like bird guano.

Anything to block out the racket of babies crying, children screeching, people jabbering on their phones, construction work, clapped out cars with tin can exhausts and buses thundering by...the list of annoying noises once you step outside your home is endless. I prefer not to hear them. I always pause my iPod in transactions in shops etc. as I hate feeling cut off then and not being able to hear people when they're asking me if I want cahsback (oh the thrill..) but as for crossing roads - the Green Cross Code man always told me to look left, look right, look left again - not to listen out for traffic that I can't see! If I can't see it, I can probably beat it. Unless it's one of those clapped out souped up boy racer cars doing 60 in a 30mph of course around a blind bend... I only wish my iPod blocked out smells aswell as noise - then I wouldn't be subjected to nasal intrusion of other people's body odour at the gym... and if it came with an electric cattle prod to help me get through the crowds all the better!

Cat Watching by Desmond Morris maybe? It's a fascinating book - short chapters so quick to read and explains a lot. Talks about the different breeds too and where they come from. Cats rock!

I've often wondered, having explored that place, why no one has done anything with it before now. It seems to have been left a wilderness for ages and it's a huge piece of land - I've spent a few (non-rainy) lunchtimes walking around the area and exploring - it fascinates me. I didn't realise it was a greenbelt area. Not sure how that works tho - there is a helluva lot of concrete for greenbelt. I'll miss the summer walks if they do build on it - there isn't much else to do when stuck working in the middle of nowhere..and there are loads of blackberries at the end of the summer ripe for eating. I think they should turn it into a huge park - it already has paths around it, like the ones in Concorde and Longley - it just needs tidying up a bit. I love the little houses down Lightwood Lane - just the one row of them on the other side of the car park. Seems like a very secluded place to live but it's a bit too far from civilisation for my liking. The nearest shop is the Co-op off Blackstock Rd and you're not spoilt for choice there..maybe they should build a supermarket!

I can generally sort software problems, but hardware I'm hopeless. Desktops are not too bad but laptop components are an unknown quantity to me...