In which we consider the people who take to the streets
Published at 10:32 am on April 5th, 2009
Filed under: Political.
In which we discuss employment in Grimsby, as it’s in the news
Published at 9:58 am on February 2nd, 2009
Filed under: Political.
Nice to see the Grimsby area in the news for once, even if it isn’t very good news. I bet the Grimsby Telegraph‘s news staff have been so excited over the last week, to get some national-quality news to report on, they’ve probably been wetting themselves.*
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Keyword noise: economics, employment, foreigners, Grimsby, Grimsby Telegraph, Immingham, industry, isolationism, jobs, Killingholme, Lincolnshire, Lindsey Oil Refinery, money, North East Lincolnshire, oil, protest, racism, refinery, strike, unemployment, xenophobia.
In which we get a reluctant refund
Published at 9:35 am on May 23rd, 2008
Filed under: The Old Office.
A couple of people have, for reasons best known to themselves, asked how I’m getting on with the office milk lady since we fell out. Well, I don’t think I’m any more popular with her than I was. Fed up of there being no milk, and fed up of the woman in question – Administrator Of The Tea Fund – refusing to accept that tea supplies were anything to do with her, I told her that in that case she could give me back the balance of what I’d put into the fund, and I’d make my own arrangements from now on. Which might have been a bit petty, the balance being only 20p, but there you go.
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Keyword noise: colleagues, money, office politics, tea fund, work.
Well, no, that’s not quite true. I was never a Farepak customer. My mother, on the other hand, was at one time, so I’ve been keeping an interested eye on the slow-burning news that has followed Farepak’s collapse.
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Keyword noise: budgeting, capitalism, credit unions, economics, Farepak, hampers, money, poverty, saving.
Or, rules that seem a little silly
Published at 11:06 pm on September 27th, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.