Fair dinkum, what a week

I made my usual call to Hector yesterday. He’s both my dad and one of my best mates, and its great how alike we think.

I told him the story of Thursday, of how I was handing out leaflets for the sale at our Marble Arch store and then the competition turned up. “I hope you got rid of them”, he said.

helping the competition

Indeed I did. In true Aussie fashion

When I sent the press article to Kimberly, her response was

“You can’t say this year has been dull in terms of work”.

Nope. One minute sorting post and parcels, the next helping in one of England’s flagship retail stores. It’s a laugh   Whatever my next job is, I clearly need to consider this factor when deciding whether to take it – so I guess that definitely means no jobs with the likes of Pasta Hut or Transport for London.

One great thing about working for M & S is the ridiculously generous staff discount you get. I think it’s recognised in the industry as being one of the best. I happened to mention to my friends at work that I was going to the pwc UK IT ball next week  (thanks for the invite, Mr D) and I needed to get something to wear to it. They showed me some tuxedos on the m & s website and also gave me ideas for party trainers and shirts.

So yesterday sdf and I headed off to Westfield.

We spent most of our time in M & S and did our bit for the UK economy, making two trips to the car. (Thanks to a tip from one of my Royal Mail friends, we knew to take the car and weren’t shocked by the car park fee – £12 for up to 5 hours, quite expensive but probably worthwhile if you’re doing lots of shopping.)

Westfield is absolutely enormous. I reckon its probably twice as big as Bluewater – there were whole sections we never even got near. I recommend anyone who is going there that they get there early and wear comfy shoes.

I’ve now got my suit and can’t wait for Friday. It will be lovely to see some of my pwc mates again.

Between now and then, I’ve got a load of stuff to do for the Brunswick Park Tenants and Residents Association, which I was voted in as Chair of recently. Emails to write, xmas drinks to arrange, web site to continue setting up.

And, speaking of websites, lots of changes to make for pivotpowerproducts, marywadeassociation and london for free. And then there’s David, who contacted me recently asking if I could help him create another site, this time a French version of londonforfree.

Its a great idea and we’ll catch up to discuss further – but, er, not this week. I think I need a bit of a rest!