Monday as always

Lovely sunny morning, but hard to get out of bed as usual on a Monday. Hub had cleared up some of the kitchen and it was the sort of day when I wanted to go and drink my coffee in the garden and eat fresh fruit and muesli like they do in books. Instead no time to brew so only instant and I don't like muesli!

No leisure either - just enough time to look out the back door and realise some creature has eaten my parsley! I pottered for three hours or so yesterday checking out all the patio pots and plants, moving seedlings and herbs, dead heading and re planting and making sure that all the little seedlings in the greenhouse have a reasonable chance of survival while we are away. Two of my little transplantlings, my parsley, have been munched! Swine, the lot of them!

Anyway, just at the point I left the house I realised that the car is due its MOT today and that they are picking it up between 9 and 10. It is now 8.50, so no chance of being on time, given the usual traffic and also the diversion from junction 25's roadworks. As I got to work, Jill in reception was trying to get hold of me, and said in exasperation when I got there that did I know my voicemail wasn't working! Yes Jill, I know! Only been trying to sort this out for the last 4 weeks after they got rid of Teleware...

Then spent a long meeting with one of our main suppliers. This is in my old role (as per last week) where I am treated as a grown up and representing marketing and commercial information. Three hours of negotiation and very productive. Later on to a meeting for the new team at which I introduce myself as working for BI for 19 years - sorry, worked - have a team which looks after credit and marketing - need past tense again - and it became clear once again that we have been given no indication of what we are to be doing in the new regime even though they are saying business as usual. How can it be BAU when I have lost half my team and only a third of the work?

Next Mr Marie tells me he wants to move to a new role which, if it had come up before he applied to work for me, would have been ideal for him. So I now have a team where I have lost the two most experienced members, I am left with a relative novice, a vacancy, a potential leaver and me - and I am on holiday followed by jury service for a couple of weeks. And then they wonder why I get so angry at the way they leave our clients exposed!

Finally to the dentist for yet another tooth out - one of the ones which didn't fall out on its own, which therefore costs £239! - and a discussion about implants. expensive pain, by the sounds of it. Will be having X rays and all sorts in June, to plan how to proceed.

Then home to find that the plumber has left the tenant with no fire, one radiator downstairs which doesn't work, no way of controlling the temperature upstairs, a noisy boiler and no shower!

Will be meeting him tomorrow at 6 to go through it all. Ho Hum. Typical Monday.

Tomorrow has to be better, right??