Oh, something has happened I’m nervous and excited. I can’t
say at the moment, but I hope this is good news. It’s a huge step for me but
one I am prepared to take. I just hope I don’t trip.
And more good news, my Son went live yesterday. As in he was
on his own at work. Two weeks of training and already he’s working solo. I
honestly didn’t think he would make it until the end of the first five days.
Week two I had him finishing for sure. This is week three, and so far, so good.
His job is very difficult mentally and certainly multi-tasking. He has three
screens at work. He is talking with three different people at once. In the
meanwhile, people are skyping him. He is having to problem solve. Get peoples
passwords back, find lost files and fix whatever is broken. Whilst person A, is
waiting he’s researching into how to help them and talking to person B, about
their troubles and looking at what is wrong with person C’s computer, whilst
giving person A’s answer.
So, he can have three people on the phone may be one from
India, one from England and one from France for example, receive emails from
another person with the answer as well as have three screens open trying to
read answers from what he has typed in. All internal colleagues but not all
from his building, in fact 90 per cent of the people are from other parts of
the UK or other countries. I doubt he will ever like it, but yesterday he didn’t complain and he’s still
there. I said if he got to where he was actually doing the job, then he would
be better, but I honestly didn’t think he would get there. I feared he would
take a long time learning as it is totally different to what he has ever done before,
and he hates the classroom. But thankfully two weeks. But he won’t be permanent
until between three and 12 months. Depends when they will think he is good
enough to keep on, or let go.
All his colleagues have worked with computers since
university. He hasn’t done anything in the work place apart from emails and
design a website for one company he worked for, but that was over a couple of
days and that was that.
They have sat him on the desk, well, not actually on the
desk, but at a desk, smile. Of the company’s genius. Boy Wonder said to me when
he learned this, they have put him there because they think he can aspire to
this man, or he needs the most help and this man can do that. Haha. I personally
think a bit of both. Our Son has never been a person who sits in his bedroom
playing around with his computer, in fact he hasn’t used a lap top or computer
in two years. And that was only to download his holiday pictures.
I have had a lovely day with my dear friend Geordie. She’s
my footballer’s wife friend… So, I started by straightening my hair, then the
make up began. Oh, heck, I’m fine with foundation, powder, blush and lipstick,
but eye makeup, no, I never dare unless Boy Wonder will be in the same house. And
today he wasn’t here, and I dared to do eye makeup. Whatever was I thinking
about? I thought, put the mascara on Fifi, it’s clear, so what do you have to
lose?
On it went followed by some gold I bought for this time of
year. Then.
Oh. Then.
I found a third mascara.
Oops.
Yeah. I remembered. I only bought some weeks ago, a brown
mascara. And it was that I used, as the clear one I bought for my Nieces
wedding was still new in its box.
Oopsie moment coming on I thought. Now what? I was up against time. I had seven minutes
before my friend was due.
So, was I going out looking like a panda? Or I came a close
second with Mike Tyson!
And then for the so-called lip stain. I mean what’s wrong
with lip stick? Well it’s the same shape as my lip gloss. So, on went the lip stain.
Then realising it was too glossy and was my gloss, so on went the stain. I mean,
the name of it alone sounds a little odd.
So, I put on my lovely Christmas coat as I call it. It’s a
red long one that feels almost velvet. A spray of my favourite perfume and I was
good to go. What did I look like? God knows and he wasn’t telling. We went to a
country pub with a coal fire. OK, they forgot to or just didn’t bother putting
it on, it was so cold in there, shame really but the staff were friendly and
the food was good. Moreover, Geordie and I had the best chat, laughs and put
the world to rights. We exchanged gifts and had a wonderful time.
And finally, Hub and I watched a program last night that we
recorded from a couple of nights ago. Oh, my it was disturbing. A lady was
getting a take away with her Grandchildren. She then was on the phone to the
kids Mum. Telling her what the children were bringing home for dinner. As the Grandma
started the car to drive, she handed the phone to one of the little girls. Who
continued to talk with her Mum? Then the old lady in her early seventies may be
younger? Slumped forward and crashed the car. The Mother on the other end of
the phone heard the crash and the children screaming. Long story short, the
elderly lady had a stroke. She lost a lot of her sight; her speech was totally
gone. She was brain damaged.
The children’s Mum looked after her at home. But realising
she needed her house adapting to accommodate her Mum, she had to put her Mum in
care. Well the home was awful. 30 patients for three members of staff. People
were wetting themselves and wondering around the home. I know from personal
experience that this does go on. My Sons girlfriend worked as a carer and from the
age of 17, she was one of sometimes only two staff to care for up to 30 people.
Well the old Mother got out of the home and went missing.
Long story again cut short. She was found and lived again
with the children’s Mum the old lady’s daughter. The kids Mum was newly split
from her Husband who had an affair. Her home life was bad. She had no money. The
old lady had no money, no savings and her house weren’t hers. It was rented. So,
after viewing a beautiful tranquil safe home, learning that was out of the
question because of finances, the young Mother had to care again at her house
for the older Mum. Life was challenging. It was sad that if you have money, you
get a good ending that is safe and pleasant. If you have no money, you are put
in a dreadful unpleasant unsafe home. After a long time, the young Mother
learned that she was intitled to funding from the Government. But she had to do
so much research to learn this. No one told her this. Because they want to keep
as much money as possible. One nurse said to the daughter of the elderly lady. “If
it’s a case of saving a young person’s life because your Mother is messing
herself and needs changing, then we are obviously going to save the young
persons life.” there were so many other comments said to the daughter throughout
the program. It was disturbing. I found it so upsetting and Hub was so upset by
it as he had a relative who went through a bad time with dementia and it reminded
him of her. It just showed that money talks and it shouldn’t when it comes to a
loved one’s care. So, like this lady who was depicted in the program, she
worked all of her life. She had been in hospital twice, to have both of her
children. And that was all of the money she used as far as hospitals are
concerned. No operations nothing. Now she needs help, where is it for her? Oh, it
was so sad. What makes a rich person better than a person from a low-income
family. She never missed a day’s work in her life, just her pay was very low. She
was a good person. Kind too. In her retirement, looked after the daughter’s
children as the young mother worked. She had to work hard because the useless
father didn’t pay a penny towards the children’s upbringing.
And some good news from bad. A man if you want to call him
that, 32 years ago, strangled and raped two little girls. He denied it and was
freed. Well fast forward now, because of DNA, he has been arrested again and
given life. new evidence. Hopefully life will mean life. in our country, life
has a very odd meaning. If you have done wrong many years ago, don’t sleep well
tonight or any other night, as your DNA, will be somewhere.
Economic reforms are going on in France. Poor Paris has seen
the worst crimes. Vandals. So sad, but hopefully now it’s over. Though many
people will be scarred by the violence that has gone on. I don’t understand how
we haven’t seen such scenes in the UK over Brexit. Believe me, in my mind there
is a war zone going on. Mrs May needs to get on with her job and not weaken.
And if we are successful, then I am sure Europe will start to crumble as a
Union. We will always be friends I hope, we will always need each other. We are
neighbours, just we want to be our own country. Well I do anyway. And we are a
small island, we can’t keep letting people come to us. The city I live in
excepted ten thousand refugees last year and we have been told we haven’t taken
in enough. That is just our city. This puts stress on our NHS, schools,
housing, dentists’ doctors
And an update on France, another shooting this time a terrorist
is on the run. France, I love you and my thoughts are with you all who have
been affected by tragedy in the past couple of weeks.
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