How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I became the manager of a small administrative office about three months ago, I spent the entirety of this morning locked in an intense meeting with my equivalents in other offices who share building space with us.

The subject of the meeting? Who is ultimately responsible for distributing milk to the kitchens in the building. The rest of the day has been spent liaising with others about the ramifications of the meeting and how we're all going to handle milk distribution. I have spent all day on this but can barely speak about it out loud without feeling overwhelmingly depressed. This is not how I pictured spending my adult life.

The milk rota is for lightweights....now the fridge CLEANING rota is another matter entirely!
I am lucky to have a name staring with T and the power of the alphabet!!!!

There were so many 'milk situations', yes people did actually come into the office and say that, and since we were an agricultural college I did suggest we just borrow a cow.
The dishrota saga was another one, we had someone who expected people to come back from another site 50 miles away to do it if it was their day. Or stand waiting by the dishwasher for the rotaed person to come in and empty it rather than just get a mug out for themselves.

Do you remember Fay Presto? She used to work at a restaurant.

ETA Langans Brasserie according to her wiki 

Enjoyed seeing Mame in Northampton yesterday and my first visit to the Royal & Derngate theatres.

Less good was the travel at my end: WMR/LNR performed perfectly to/from Euston, ie trains running and on time; plenty of seats, cheap fares. Shame the shower of something unmentionable that is GTR (Southern/Thameslink) offered instead a typical weekend disservice of multiple service cuts/delays/cancellations due to yet more engineering work - and this was a Saturday; try even travelling by train on a Sunday in this area. On the way back it took me an hour to get fro Victoria to East Croydon so I missed my connection and the next one, half an hour later, was delayed.

Of Northampton itself I'm also unable to say anything positive other than that the town centre, carved up by the usual one-way system, retains signs of the attractive place it must once have been. I had stayed on the outskirts a few years earlier, to visit gardens/houses and do some walking, so I had seen some of the town and had visited the Charles Rennie Mackintosh house and didn't want to revisit just yet; I also knew that the other muuseum was closed for renovation.

However, I thought there would be something to do or see for a couple of hours but there absolutely wasn't and the tourist information centre opens Mon - Fri only. I made the mistake of arriving over 2 hours early but won't do that again if ever I return for theatre.

This is the best transport delay excuse I've come across in a long time! www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-51090657

I was once on a train that was held up because of a sheep on the line. Unfortunately it seems that a sheep's natural reaction to danger is to flee directly away from it, which on a railway line means staying firmly between the rails.

Bactrian you mean, that was a problem for the trian!

Aah, didn't know the train was going backwards causing those letters to be backwards too! All makes so much more sense now!

Well, do you wear your cap in bed?

It's Friday. It's five to five six o'clock. It's CRACK-ER-JACK!