You Just Couldn't Make It Up ...

... unless you work (?) in the "Tower of Doom - Cheadle Hoom"...

An interesting week-end .. no mail on Saturday morning .. a 1-7 whupping for Stafford on Saturday afternoon ... a bit of a "walk" on Sunday (camera never came out of bag mind) and an evening in Tameside General Hospital !!! I've had what felt like a bit of a throat infection all week, making breathing a bit of a nuisance - by 1900 last night it had become a privilege rather than a right - eek (or rather gasp). After an hour or so on oxygen, nebulisers, various blood tests and a chest x-ray, the pronouncement was "a throat infection" - so now I'm on rather large amounts of penicillin, prednisolone etc - and the swelling around the windpipe is now easing off ...

... enough in fact to turn up at "T.o.D.C.H." this very morning - to find out that ALL the death/reprieve letters WERE sent out on Friday ... apart from two ............ yes you've guessed it ... me and my Boss. Straight on to HR - who obviously knew about this (lack of sending letters) on Friday but didn't have the guts/competence/compassion to tell us. Apparently (still rumour/conjecture) "they" want both of us to work for another two months ...

... (silence) ...

Now then ... is this two months part of the three months notice - or are they delaying the "start of notice" until 3rd November - a sensible question, suitably asked. "Errr ... I need to speak to xxx - who may need to check with yyy - and then probably get the deal typed up and approved by zzz" - that was 1030 this morning - "We will make this our top priority today" - it's now 1400 ...

Out of here early doors anyway to pick up yet more drugs - and then onward to Hurst Cross tonight to see Ashton United take on Burscough. I note from their site this lunchtime that a former stalwart of the club Graham O'Neill died yesterday - at a very young age. Tributes are coming in on the Ashton United message board, and no doubt there will be a moment's reflection on this sad loss, later today ... RIP Graham.
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