Well, this will be a ramble as I am sitting here at my laptop, bone idle, wanting to do nothing at all but as I like to post every day, it is a good discipline, I am going to inflict one of these meandering Posts about Nothing Much on you all today. I have Abba’s Golden Hits on the cd player as I have had the songs going round and round in my head since I saw Mamma Mia on Sunday and it has been driving me mad so gave in and am singing along to Chiquita right this minute, in fact my fingers are hitting the keys in time. Sad really.
OK I need suggestions from all you nice kind people out there. I am all Mapped and Luciad out. In my usual binge reading fashion I have read them all in five weeks, including the two Tom Holt books, and am now totally lost and cannot turn my mind to anything else and I must as I have a pile of review books looking at me reproachfully. The DVDs of Mapp and Lucia arrived a day or two ago and I have just watched the first 
episode but am rationing myself severely so that the pleasure of this purchase can be extended.
Now I know Major Benjy by Guy Fraser-Sampson is coming out soon but that is not till September so I will have to wait till then. Had an email from Guy the other day informing me that he is giving a talk at the Friends of Tilling in Rye about the book and why don’t I pop along? A truly seductive thought but glancing at the website all attendees are dressed up Hitum and not sure I can cope with that at the moment. I need a little while to get into true Lucia mode before I can get the glad rags out. However, a visit to Rye certainly will be undertaken as soon as I can manage it.
So the suggestions I mentioned? I would like all of you to rack your brains and come up with another author for me to try. Preferably someone who has written a whole screed of titles that will keep me happy for a month or two. I like writing of the 1930’s etc so if there are any subfusc Benson types lurking waiting to be discovered then do let me know.
(We are onto Voulez vous at the moment and once again my fingers are dancing in time to the music. These ABBA songs are just so tuneful and such fun, no wonder they have lasted so long).
Further rambling now – my current work contract comes to an end at the end of August so I am back on the market again, so to speak, and have spent some time in the last couple of days at my agency, doing these infernal tests again that the clients request, which I hate doing. I had to take a spelling and comprehension test this afternoon for which I was allowed 45 minutes and handed it in in 15 much to the amazement of the staff (all aged about 12). When I spoke to my consultant about this test she sighed and said she knew it was pretty pointless me doing it but also said that I would be surprised at the standards, or rather lack of them, that some of their candidates possessed. My reply was that I was not surprised at all.
Bonus was that I caught an early train and home at a reasonable hour. One of the posts I am applying for at the moment is a part time one at a firm near Liverpool Street. Less money obviously, but just think what bliss it will be to only work three days a week. O joy. Fingers crossed.
(Am now up to Gimme Gimme a Man after Midnight which is probably not an appropriate song to be playing as I am contemplating an early night tonight…..)
Off I go to my lonely bed
‘sigh’
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