This recession lark is no fun.
... so now it looks as though my job isn't safe either. Great. Apparently although we're still turning a profit, the powers that be have decreed that not only will our pay be frozen, but if sales don't pick up there will be more redundancies at QVC. So that's just great really. Anyway - at the moment, I'm still employed so trying to stay positive. Iain finished work on Thursday. Not really sure if it's hit him yet, he's busy sorting out renting his house out. It's good that's he's busy though I think. We're going to invest some of his pay off in premium bonds. There's bugger all interest out there even in ISAs, so we decided that that might be a good option. We might win a bit now and again, and you can take the money out whenever you like. Also, as it's the government, surely it shouldn't go bust!!
Wedding-wise, my brother finished the invitations, so we're trying to sort out with Iain's brother-in-law who hopefully can get them printed for us. Then I guess we've really got to get back into the planning. It's just taken a real back seat with everything else which is going on. Mind you, we have until November, so don't think we need to panic just yet.
Easter was quite good, we went to a car show in the rain on Good Friday which was fun if a bit wet! Then Easter Sunday we headed down to Dorset to see Iain's parents and his sister and her family. A nice day with gorgeous weather! Made a nice change. Other than that we've just been cleaning up the house and doing a bit of gardening. Well Iain has. I kill things!
Also Iain let me drive his Capri round Sainsbury's car park! It must be love, no one else has ever driven it! Apparently I drove it like a Morris Minor. I was in a car park, I couldn't exactly go fast!
Oh and we found a wasp nest in the garage - fortunately it was tiny, so Iain broke it up and killed the one wasp. Huge horrible thing! Trouble is, he tells me that there have been more "sniffing around." Do wasps sniff? Have to keep an eye on things - don't want a huge nest in there!
Have eaten too much chocolate so I'm sure I've put weight on!!
Ali x