A winter wonderland .... in April.

As mentioned in my last post, we had some snow in the last month here ( it was actually two weeks ago now ). By most peoples standards, it was nothing ... it was here one minute and gone the next ... ( quite literally - it had all melted away in 3 - 4 hours ) but it was unusual for where I live on the South Coast, and especially in April. This time last year , it was a mini heatwave .... this year, snow .... the weather is getting stranger and stranger ... Gaia is definitely becoming confused ....

Here are a few photos, just to prove that I wasn't imagining things .... these are views from the graveyard I visited ( go there every Sunday, with my Mum to place fresh flowers on my Grandmother's grave ... looked even more peaceful than ever that day ... )

Hello ( again ) ....

So much for my promise / statement that I would post here more often now I have my iBook ....

Anyway, the last month or so since the last post has been eventful in a strange kind of way ... be it due to it snowing ( an event because it almost NEVER snows here ), or me suffering a small bout of food poisoning ( thanks to dodgy instructions on a microwave ready meal ), or my visit to London to see the Maestro in concert ( a full description in another post - PROMISE ! ) ... outside work, my life has been quite eventful . Unfortunately, thanks to work, and things there, I have generally been too tired, stressed, just out of salts with everything to get my head together and write here ... had enough things to post about, but just no energy or inclination left to write them ... the dark clouds mentioned in the last post were slower to part and dissipate than I expected (or wanted ) ..... so there, that's my excuses out of the way ..... .

Back to my work situation .... I am just so fed up most of the time lately . My status in the store is practically nonexistent ... I am almost totally invisible again now. I get spoken to, but no-one really talks to me and I almost never get listened to ... I can quite easily go most of the day without speaking to anyone but myself. I am just not there as far as some are concerned ...and it is now getting me down more than ever. Almost as bad is the fact that when others do manage to speak to me, it is as if they were speaking to a five year old .... it seems to me they really think I am thick as two short planks ... just a little annoying !!. There is a bunch of others ( OK , two others - who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty ... ) who have been promoted to team leaders recently ... and they know EVERYTHING about everything now ... and don't we know it ! It seems everyone else is inefficient , slow, useless ... only they can do their respective jobs properly. My opinions ( when I get around to giving them, which is not that often ) are pretty much ignored and disregarded ... after all, how could I know anything about what they have to do - I'm just the baker . The fact that I have probably been there , seen that and got the t-shirt doesn't enter the equation ....

I know I'm sounding like the green-eyed monster has descended on me ... perhaps it is jealousy on my part ... but I hope not. That will get me nowhere. I just want to be acknowledged once in a while, not generally ignored .... to be thought of as having just a little knowledge ... after all, I must have picked up something after twenty years in retail. I can hope, can't I ?