Flying South Chapter 18

I'm technically back at work, did two days, but things are still very quiet. Just as well. Encountering the office bitch after a month's peace wasn't pleasant. After her verbal warning from the bosses last December, she doesn't snipe at me any more but the emotional atmosphere in there is like the inside of a fridge. The only cheerful thought is that she's headed for another warning, not courtesy of me this time. They're going by the letter of the law because this person is an unfortunate combination of nasty and stupid, but not too stupid to file an unfair dismissal claim!

Yet there is still peace. Not much money but the weather's nice and I can get some writing and gardening done. The potatoes haven't waited for me to finish preparing the ground, some of them have popped up already meaning I didn't find all of last season's crop :-) I'm also still mulching, bucket by bucket since I haven't put the money aside to buy a wheelbarrow yet. One wheelbarrow = two or three books....( Read more... )