Do You Have Birdbrain In Red Leather?

Perhaps I'm missing something but...

...why on earth would you walk into a picture framer's to ask where to find a family law solicitor???

It's not even as though there's a friendly face in the shop looking like that sort of information might be available, since we're hidden out back in the workshop until the bell goes off!!!

Citizens Advice, anyone? Or - failing that - Yellow Pages, surely?!

It's very jolly having a bloke-free place of my own now, with the ability to put up a guest if and when I want. My sister came to stay with me for three nights last week. She lives way down in the south of France, and over the last twenty years or so, I've seen her for maybe a day at a time max, and only once or twice a year if I'm lucky. More often, not. Shame it was too bloomin' hot to go out and do much, though we did drive up to Solihull to see our aunt and uncle one day, and took a slow dawdle into Horsham another. She finally got to see my shop! I've only had it four years! (And worked there another fourteen on top!) Anyhow, she's back in French-France now, where it's even hotter, poor sods. Can we ban summer? Winter too. I'm fine just swapping between spring and autumn, ta muchly!

Had to make 50% of my two-woman workforce redundant last month :( If my accountant had his way, Rebecca would be out the door, too, but he can jolly-well get stuffed. Sod going it alone. We'll keep struggling onwards. Recession? Pah!

Looking on the bright side, the shop did so badly last year that I won't have to pay any personal tax next year, AND I got a rebate on last year's, which has paid off my credit card and most of what I'd had to borrow from the business in the course of buying my flat. Yay! *winces*

Since I moved into my new place, I've actually been doing some reading. I discovered a snippet from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series,via the Jane Austen site I lurk around, and as a result have whizzed through "The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book", and "The Well of Lost Plots" - great fun to read - and am now taking a break from him with "Nelson's Purse" by Martyn Downer, which has been sitting unread on my bookcase for I dunno how many years, poor thing. Interesting stuff.

And I think I've finally worked out what I'm going to do to fix "General". Now, if the temperature would just drop enough for my brain to engage properly...

Hope all's well with my flist, and you're not all melting into icky-sticky pools of goo!!

*smooches*

Oh, I am the Guv. Well, that's all right then!

Was surfing the 'net looking for sommat work-related (no, really!) when I tripped over this:

King's Shilling Anyone?!

Why's there no army alternative? Seems odd to me that it's specifically aimed at Navy "recruits", but whatever.