So much time, so little posted

That could be the message about work at the moment as we are in the middle of a recruitment programme for a new Centre Manager and to date, despite a wicked job description, fab salary and a rotten boss there have been no takers. Still if anyone out there fancies taking the risk then leave me a comment and I will send you an application (how about it little mouse?)
Work is tough at the moment as we are losing staff faster than I can recruit them and the trustees have called a secret meeting without me. Do I smell the whiff of conspiracy?
There have been good things too. We went to our local RSPB reserve during the week with lots of exciting sightings although sadly not the avocets the recent newsletter promised. The solitary egret has now become three or four egrets and a wonderful display from two herons. Then up the motorway for 100 miles to Snape and Aldburgh for a look at the sea and a concert of solo cello music. Great soloist who I think must have had a nip of something at half time as the later session was far more animated than the first. Interesting cello with no stand but supported between the musician's legs. Very odd posturebut I was assured by the verbose lady sitting behind us that it gives a much more authentic sound.
I am fighting the photocopier wars at the moment. My predecessor stitched us up with a 5 year contract at £2,700 a quarter but with 100% discount in the first two years. Just that he didn't tell anyone about the remaining three years which will now cost me a fortune so I went shopping elsewhere and looked to have got a much better deal with some other nice people from Japan. Then the bombshell from supplier number 1, no way to terminat the contract without paying off the remaining 12 quarters plus vat in advance. the odd £40k I do not surprisingly have lying around in the office so back to my nice new Japanese friends who tell me they will see what they can do - they are that desperate for my business- so we will see what kind of goodies next week brings. Those nice people from the Bank of Cyprus want to give me (well the charity actually) a cheque for £900 as well just for being their friend, oh and dumping a great big fixed term deposit in their laps.
Went to a seminar on the Mental Capacity Act - very worrying consequences, usually you find out you should have done something about the legalities the day someone else officially declares that your marbles are out to lunch. So off to your friendly local solicitor and get powers of attorney, forged signatures and anything else you can think of all sorted now. Go on you know it makes sense! When your kids have spent every penny you ever had and then some you will really appreciate from the depths of your leaky hovel at the bottom of the garden, the legal advice you received at the time.
Then there was the trip to Bethnal Green for a seminar imaginatively called "planning for the future" which obviously received such overwhelming support that it was cancelled but no one built into the planning mechanism a means of telling the people who had booked. With due respect to its residents, who I am sure are really nice people, it is not one of the places I would put at in my top ten tourist destinations. As you know from previous posts we like to travel. For Mrs Claus I suppose her top destination would have to be Portugal and for me, maybe Kenya although it is very far removed from the country we visited in the late 70s and early 80s.
For those of you who follow such things avidly I can report that despite repairs to the roof the pigeon is still sliding off the bird table much to the pleasure of the other birds that hang around in the grass underneath to pick up the debris.
No real excitement to report then, it's almost as good as a day in Ambridge isn't it?