Happy Sunday!! I hope you are having a great weekend! We're having a good weekend so far. It has been a quiet one, which was just what I needed after last weekend when we were out gallivanting. hehehe It's been another week with little bits and pieces going on and it has been nice.
I said yesterday in my Word of the Week post about Ellie having a job interview. Well, it didn't happen. They emailed just before she was due to leave saying the interview was cancelled as the job position was filled. Ugh! It's a good job she double checked the name of the person she was asking for or else she wouldn't have seen the email. They must have seen something in her CV to give her the interview but then didn't give her a chance to prove herself in person! I thought it was very unfair and I helped Ellie write an email to the hiring people. I understand that things change during recruitment and nobody is entitled to a job just because they've been invited for an interview but I don't think they handled it right. I think candidates deserve a little more consideration than a last minute cancellation by email. A phone call is the least they could have done, especially when someone has been preparing for an interview.
Today we don't have much planned. A bit of housework, nice food and I am thinking about starting to watch Christmas movies. Years ago I used to fit watching all my favourites into December but now there are too many, I need to start earlier!
Now for a photo every day!
305/365 1st November
This drainer beside the sink causes so many arguments in my family. Stu and Becky love it but Ellie and I refuse to use it as we struggle to reach around it and the cutlery sticks far too far out of the front. Ellie and I use the old plastic one which has seen better days. lol Stu washed the dishes on Sunday and as much as I hate to say it, this does look much tidier.
306/365 2nd November
Ellie is cracking on with her English course. She was given a booklet of work that they will all be working through. Some of it homework and some to do in class. She is doing this course because she never got the pass in English from school or the resits in college. Someone, somewhere said to get a good job you have to have GCSE's or equivalent so now a lot of jobs ask for them. All the apprenticeships she sees, that she would love to do need an English pass, so she's working on it.
307/365 3rd November
Looking at the sky, it could have passed for a summer's day but the temperature said different! It sure has got colder over the last week or so. I now have two blankets over me if I am sat in my armchair during the day and there has been a lot of me shouting shut the door to the girls. We have to keep the heat in. lol
308/365 4th November
The washing was all folded as soon as it came out of the dryer! I'm not getting much out on the line to dry now as it has been quite damp and cold. The tumble dryer is getting a lot more use now and at least it warms the kitchen up.
309/365 5th November
I borrowed this photo from Ellie. Becky, her and their people went off to the firework display to celebrate Bonfire Night. I stayed home but they managed to keep warm in front of the huge bonfire. They had a great time with lots of delicious food, fairground rides and seeing the fireworks.
310/365 6th November
Just a month or so ago, the hedge was full of leaves but now it's looking pretty bare apart from the berries. It's amazing how quickly everything changes at this time of year. I do like this stage of autumn, even though it means winter is getting closer.
311/365 7th November
The Christmas gifts I bought online this week are starting to be delivered. Now I just have to find somewhere to put them until I get around to wrapping them. The problem with shopping early is finding somewhere to hide everything.
I am literally sitting in front of the fireplace right now! When I'm on the couch, it is two blankets all the way. It sounds like you are managing to stay warm with the two blanket situation as well :). Nice pictures from your week. The sky pic does look like it could be a sunny day- funny how looks are deception sometimes. We can't hang clothes outside to dry on a line to a HOA (it's like a set of rules for a housing subdivision or groups of homes in one area often built by one builder) restricting them so our dryer runs year round. Have a great Sunday!
ReplyDeleteThat's so frustrating about Ellie's interview. They could have at least called her! I'm sure something better will come along.
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at the dish drainer debate! And I know what you mean about hiding Christmas presents. Everyone is so nosey in our house! The struggle is real. x
I agree on the interview. Why schedule it if they were willing to hire before it? They should have told the person they had a few more interviews and then decide.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo of the bonfire!
I have Christmas gifts coming too, soon time to start wrapping!
Hi, Kim. English was never one of my better subjects in school. I loved math!
ReplyDeleteThe dish drainer, it does look tidy but odd 😂
It's a good thing it was not windy for the bonfire. I know they give off wonderful heat and they are fun to make the s'mores!
I enjoy reading about your week.
All the best.
I agree about the interview. It was a rude/inconsiderate thing to do and a rude/inconsiderate way to do it. Glad you gave them some feedback - possibly not a good company to work for anyway.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the English exam, I feel for Ellie about it. She obviously didn't get your great writing genes... or maybe it's a mental block now?
Sorry to hear about Ellie's interview. That must have been so annoying and disheartening. I hope the English course works out for her. It will make some things easier for her in the long run. Yes it's cold! Stay warm :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've seen a dish drainer such as you have pictured. It does look like it would be an adjustment. We don't use a drainer at all. Gary washes; I dry and put away.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking it would be tricky hiding Christmas gifts this far ahead of the big day. I had a neighbor many years ago who asked me to keep the gifts for her kids at my house until Christmas Eve. I did one year, but then I had to hide them so MY KIDS wouldn't #1 find them, and #2 think those gifts were for them!!!
I'm under blankets too, although the OH sits in the overheated living room with the woodburner going, he just shuts the door because the thermostat would click off and that warms the lodgers' annex. So it's a bit annoying the way the house was set up. The interview thing is so frustrating, but now they tend to put job ads up even though they know there's someone internally (except for our work where it's harder to get a job internally which is very strange).
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