{"id":164,"date":"2013-03-25T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-04-11T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:54:35","slug":"please-tell-the-weather-fairy-its-almost-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/03\/please-tell-the-weather-fairy-its-almost-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Tell The Weather Fairy It’s Almost Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, the weather hasn’t got much better, has it?\u00a0 I spent last week and\u00a0the weekend freezing, as most of you did, too, I suppose.\u00a0 And while I’m one of these strange people who actually doesn’t mind Winter, even I will be glad to see signs that Spring is here.\u00a0 When I say I don’t mind Winter, what I really like is to see the changes of the seasons and I find beauty in all four of them.\u00a0 But I’ve admired you enough now, Mr Winter – be off and make way for Ms Spring!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Thank God I’m off to Antigua tomorrow for a week of warmth! Although I’ll be busy, busy, busy all the time I’m there doing maintenance and painting and stuff at Avocado Cottage..<\/p>\n

Although it’s been cold life hasn’t come to a halt.\u00a0 I was honoured to be cast in a play by Kerry-Anne Whyte at the Anna Scher Theatre a couple of weeks ago and last Friday was the Festival and our play made it through.\u00a0 It was great to be at an AST Festival of Plays again and I really enjoyed myself acting\u00a0but also watching the other plays and the standard was high.\u00a0 I’ve got a couple of ideas for plays for next term and so I’m going to try and turn them into plays – or at least one play – while I’m away.<\/p>\n

I had a lovely afternoon with my beautiful Daughter yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a bit of a drive and we usually meet half way but I went to her and it was, of course,\u00a0well-worth it.\u00a0 I just wish we spent more time together but I’m so proud of the kind, loving, talented, generous, intelligent, strong, capable woman she’s become and I miss her like mad.<\/p>\n

Also good news about a friend of mine, F, who’s been having a really rotten time at work.\u00a0 She’s working alongside the worst possible combinanation of clueless team leader who’s had no training and bitch from hell (who’s able to wrap clueless team leader around her little finger).\u00a0 F was called in for a disciplinary meeting with HR department because the bitch from hell claimed she’d been “abusive and aggressive” towards her.\u00a0 It\u00a0was claimed\u00a0that this alleged abusive, aggressive behaviour took the form of F calling her “A silly little girl”.\u00a0 I kid\u00a0 you not!\u00a0 All of us who know F know that a phrase like that isn’t\u00a0even in her vocabulary.\u00a0 Believe me, if she was going to be abusive she’d say something much worse than that.\u00a0 And it also turns out that the bitch from hell has previous: in 2009 she made an accusation of sexual harrasment against a work college and tried to take the Met (her employer at the time) for \u00a31m.\u00a0 She obviously didn’t get anywhere as she’s now working for minimum wage, but she also, obviously, seems to make a habit of making allegations against work colleagues.\u00a0 Anyway, F decided she’d had enough, especially as team leader and bitch from hell can’t understand why she won’t sit and make polite conversation with them,\u00a0and has handed her notice in.\u00a0 We’re all glad as she’s an educated\u00a0woman and we’ve never quite understood why she was doing this boring mundane job.\u00a0 And now she’s had the courage to take the leap, a net has appeared and she’s going to be doing something she really loves.\u00a0 THERE’S A MORAL\u00a0THERE FOR ALL OF US!<\/p>\n

And, no, I haven’t forgotten.\u00a0 Here is the photo of me in\u00a0my beautiful Katie Vale creation.\u00a0\u00a0 www.KatieValeDesigns.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Have a lovely Easter.\u00a0 My next post will be from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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