Bank holiday monday and it's wet wet wet

One of the wettest bank holidays for a long time. We usually have a barbecue over the bank holiday and really have lots of luck with the weather, but recently we felt that people would be thinking, oh god, they're having another barbecue, so we decided not to have one this weekend and it rained all day yesterday and most of today. At least 50 mm have rained upon us, bit of a difference from the April we had which was so hot and sunny.

Yesterday went to B & Q and bought a load of troughs, compost and plants, which have sat on my garden bench for over 24 hours now, being liberally watered. Hub also got all the things to finish putting the tellie on the wall. The bracket we got could support a jumbo jet, and the only instructions that came with it showed how to put together a bit which was already put together when we got it! It took a huge hammer drill, me with the Vax strategically placed to suck up the dust as Hub made the holes in the walls, and God, what holes. At one point Hub went round to check the outside to make sure he hadn't come through! Then in went the chemical stuff to hold the bolts. It was grey, and runny, and on a piece of card, and the cat was jumping around!! All hovering over the carpet! Finally we got the bracket up this morning. - looks good, and the tellie now folds flat against the wall when we are not watching it. Cos of the rain today though it has been on all day so we have not tested this position yet!!

Hope the rain stops tomorrow - back to work which will be hard enough.

Ho hum.

The Drugs don't Work

Just updated my profile, while listening to the Verve. This particular track always reminds me of Late Hub. If ever it comes on the radio or CD in the car, I always choke, I cannot sing along with it. Gets me every time.

Football and stuff

Been a strange couple of days. Firstly got the results of the grievance hearing appeal. Long story short, I complained because one of my staff gets paid more than I do. Seems reasonable to me that if I take more responsibility then I should be rewarded for this. The company reacted as if this is a strange one, that somehow I have gone mad asking for this. Their response - the staff member gets paid too much so they will not award him the annual pay rise, even though he scored really well in his appraisal. Oh, and I won't get any more after this year either. So now, I feel that I am responsible for him not getting a rise, and I still am no better off. So I appealed, on the grounds that I feel it is unfair to penalise him, and it would be OK if everyone paid more than the recommended maximum for their grade were to have their pay frozen, but if not then it is not fair to react to my grievance by penalising hm. Got the response yesterday, basically the same, no rise for him, no change for me, and the comment that now this is out of the way perhaps I can concentrate on my new role! So I was supposed to go to the IDM show today and couldn't be bothered. Fuck em.

Over the last week I have been knocked back on the appeal, been moved to another division after 19 years in the old one, lost half my team, with no real rhyme or reason, had a new manager appointed to a role that wasn't advertised, so I didn't have the chance to go for it. They really know how to piss a person off.