Fair dinkum, its been another busy couple of weeks. I’m aware that I haven’t written an update to my blog for a while, so, friends and family far and wide, here’s a quick one.
We had another highly successful pre-xmas spectacular sale day last week at M & S – 20 % off absolutely everything (OK, not food or tech stuff) and again, head office staff were asked to help out in stores. So once again I went to the Marble Arch store, but this time I spent the day inside, on a sales counter packing purchases and laughing with customers and regular M & S store staff.
I’ve never laughed so much at work in ages, and I made some new friends among the store staff including a lovely chap from Poland called Patrick (some of whom remembered me from last time). We also received some compliments from customers about how nice it was to see happy staff serving – so I guess it was good for business – and the day just flew by. Maybe I’m born to be the new Mrs Slocombe 
Away from M & S and on to christmas shopping – and yep, you guessed it, back to M & S. Sdf and her M & S “Partner of an Employee” discount card have become very well acquainted lately – it will be a traumatic parting for them if I leave – and so we spent most of yesterday morning in – sigh, the Marble Arch store. My world is becoming very surreal these days.
In fact, yesterday was a massive shopping day in central London, and damn if I didn’t realise it before we set off. Loads and loads of people.
They closed Oxford Street and Regent Street to traffic and had lots of christmas entertainment – carol singers, bands and so on – so after visiting the competition to buy some cheap, poor quality clothes for around the house – I decided not to do christmas shopping (too many people, great excuse!).
It then became less stressful as sdf and I wandered around laughing and taking some silly photos, enjoying the christmas atmosphere and the classic London christmas smell of roasting chestnuts.
I did draw the line however at her suggestion of sneaking into the middle of a High School Musical dance routine for a photo as my knees were killing me from having danced at the fabulous OLP christmas party the night before. (Salt of the earth, the OLP gang, love em to bits!)
Which means of course that I still haven’t finished christmas shopping, haven’t written any cards – goodbye last posting date, it was nice to see you – and haven’t put up any decorations at home. Maybe I can use the excuse of my badly cut finger thanks to an incident at the PwC ball two weeks ago, involving the lovely Mr Daley, his housemate and some bottles of red wine 
Either way, at least I have retreived the tree out of the loft and away from hungry squirrels. Maybe we’ll put it up next weekend……..
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