The Greatest Crepe

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I hope I have remembered the chosen title correctly - I have used Crem's title (think it was Crem's) as the old thread is full.

Herbs - will be fab to have lots of time en famille in the summer but eek re new job on horizon.

Inspired by CV and Rose I have put 10 things on Ebay. They range from size 10 to 16. WTF.

Addle* for you
This from my lovely friend who lives in Palafrugell.
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Re Girona and visits. There is so much to see and do. A few highlights:

Girona city is beautiful, especially the old part around the cathedral

The medieval villages of Besalu, Pals, Peratallada, Toroella de Montgri

The beautiful coastline, beaches and fishing villages of my area, the Costa Brava. The centre of the fab town of Palafrugell, close to the seaside villages of Tamariu, Llafranc and Calella. Llafranc is my favourite beach in Spain. Lovely restaurants/bars along the front.

The square in Palafrugell is lovely for coffee, a beer, people watching and great shops.

The Greek and Roman ruins of Empuries are stunning, with lovely coastline and gorgeous walk to to the tiny village of St Marti d'Empordá with good restaurants

The whole countryside around here is stunning - it's compared to Tuscany. Very green, rolling hills, ancient villages, big stone farmhouses.

Great food, local wine. Locally grown fruit, veg and rice!!

The Dalí triangle...his 3 houses at Pubol (Gala's castle), the Dalí museum at Figueres, and their holiday home at Port Lligat (all fab!!!)

Near Port Lligat is the picturesque seaside town of Cadaques. Also famous for Dalí and Picasso. Great seafood on the front.

Other things: the volcanic region of Garrotxa , of course the Pyrenees and there is the lovely pale blue lake at Banyoles, lovely for a freshwater dip on a hot day"

Pooh that sounds so lovely Thk you Crem and dq. Dq might you hv details of apt? Could pm you. Crem- wld you mind v much asking ur friend if she thought it wld be possible to get around on public transport? I was thinking giro a/palafrugell/garrotxa as my three bases already so this perfect x

Pooh?! That will teach me to text when over excited and walking. Sorry all. Excitement remains though and cheering day at work

Wow, that sounds and looks wonderful!

Will do Addle.

Friend suggests this site Addle although he says he has no personal experience. He says there are a lot of private companies that do different routes so it can be hard to see online.
[[http://en.costabrava.org/come/transport aqí]

here sorry

In mum news, she's had her op, it went well and she's recovering as she should. PRAISE BE.

In shitty work news, remember that I'm being paid essentially £150 a month for a four day week? And my temporary 'consultant' boss, who has not helped me one jot and in fact hindered my every move? Guess how much he's paid per day. By a cash-strapped council. Go on, guess.

Higher....

You won't believe it.

.... £550. A. Day.

Herbs, good news about your DM.
Not so good about your boss

I am reeling from news from a colleague about quite possible C word, after another fab colleagues lovely mum passed a couple of days ago. Feel so bad for them both.

Seize the day, Crepeys.

*Addle8 I've pm'd you. let me know if link doesn'y work.

Herbs Glad to read that your Mums op went well. & at amount your unhelpful boss is getting.
Btm thats such sad news about your friend.

Herbs, good news about your DM. Did she have a GA, or n epidural like me? How much? Something very wrong there, somewhere.

BTM, sorry about your colleague.

Rudy, nice to see you.

Holiday sounds great and isn't your friend lovely, Crem, to reply so promptly. By the way, DD has bought bandanas for one of her cats: it looks so cute.

Here we have spent most of the day in the garden with DGD - I love to see her playing on the little car which belonged to her uncle (he's 40 this summer, so I know it is at least 38 yo!). It's now cloudy, very close and we are forecast thunderstorms - well, of course we have had two hot days.

Rose, how are you today?

She had a GA, I think, which was part of my worry, what with her dicky heart and blood-clotting issues. And inability to remember either of those things.

We had mega thunderstorms down here. I drove home through a number of lakes which used to be roads, bordered by bursting drains gushing forth foul-smelling water. The sewagey smell extended to the basement pool where DS has his lessons. Ewwww...

Now I want to go to Gerona environs. Once again, Cremo does sterling tourist board work.

I've just worked out that as an FE teacher I am earning £10 a day.

Surely not worth getting out of bed for that, Herbs? Being a consultant is obviously the way to go...

I am contemplating another move Overseas.

That's effing criminal Herbs. And your bosses day rate too. WTAF?

I'm not sure that's really worth it Herbs, but.... This is what you trained for, it's your first year (or am I wrong) and the experience must be worth something. All organisations have this weird relationship between paid headcount and 'consultancy fees', where they seem to have a huge budget for consultants who don't really count on their books. We have it at ours too, where the consultancy rate is not comparable in any way to what they are being paid, if they were formally on the books. It's makes for much bad blood.

I'm home now..... Phew! Dd1 home from uni, so we are back to full quota family. So the dynamics change once more

Must get a wine order in for the weekend. Don't worry Addle, all my friends are Crepeys, just ones you don't know yet

Just you Mrs S? Or might you take the other Shadenfreudens with you?

Herbs, I feel your anger at the idiot, unhelpful boss' high and unjustified salary. It stinks to high heaven, and is also happening in the various grades above me. People here have even started to believe their own press. Utter bullshit.
There must be other ways ! I just can't think of any atm.
Glad mum doing well. Hope recovery well under way and she continues to improve.

You can understand why BGF living in Spain and I get on so well. We could spend days planning trips, and have travelled together many times, since our very first Inter rail trip in 1983. 1 month on train carrying the heaviest canvas tent in the universe, with £100 to last 30 days. Those were the days.

MI how are you doing?

MrsS where?
Herbs good about mum.

MI how's you doing?

Back at an actual computer so many thanks again Crem - that looks so lovely - and also DQ whose air bnb looks great

Herbs - glad your mum's op went well. ridiculous about your boss but absolutely not unknown. and creme, agree once people get those rates they can start to believe their own press. how long till you've completed the year?

Crem - I so wish I'd done all that inter railing on pennies. Keep [not so] silently wishing the DCs would do it for me but they stoutly refuse

What's the overseas news Mrs S?

MI are you booked to see People in Hay?

Beachy - I originally misread your message as 'must get the wine order in - don't worry Addle'. also appropriate

I realise that as I'm new, and building up experience, I have to expect not to earn massive amounts. But the only thing that's taking me longer than most is the prep and admin, not the teaching, which cannot take any less time. Even if I did nothing but teaching, I would still be on £20 a day.

Herbs - wishing your DM a speedy recovery. about overpaid boss.

Hi Rudy - hope you are keeping your head above water.

at sulking feline.

Another GCSE ticked off - DS was a complete ball of stress when he got home having tackled Eng Lang as best he could (not really his thing); he has Computer Science tomorrow; his nemesis and the toughest of all his subjects. Ten days until it is All Over.....

Hands Off Boss was in the office today, and called me in to say a) that he had taken on board everything I had said last week; b) that he discussed it with the board; c) that they wanted to find a better role for me and, d) that he wanted me to put down a few ideas of what I'd like to do! Crumbs. The world is my oyster, and the ball is firmly back in my court. I need to have a think about what gaps there are in the organisation right now, and how I could fill them. HR? Training??

Meanwhile, DH is wrestling with a dilemma - he gets a company car with his promotion. Or he can take cash instead. But we are stuck with our two existing cars, as they are only a year old and it would be uneconomical to sell either of them (would have to buy our way out of the PCP finance deals). Any deal DH takes (car or cash) is for four whole years duration. And he really, really wants a fancy company car, all expenses paid etc etc. But we don't need three cars right now. BUT we probably will do in six months, when DS is driving. Car? Cash? Car? Cash? Nice dilemma to have, I guess, but....argh!!

Cash, I'd say. But I'm not a car person. I am so much not a car person I am slightly dreading for the first time in months later today.

I'm ok, thank you lovely friends. V tired, sleeping badly (menopause and memory foam) and probably v grumpy but carrying on. Have some work and am pitching some more ideas and may apply for a part-time lecturing gig at the place I worked a couple of terms ago.

Dd1's new boyf came round yesterday (too rainy to look

...to loiter in the park). DP points out he looks like a young Boris J....

I am also not a car person. Our car has just celebrated its 18th birthday...

CV, go for HR and training and get them to pay you to do some CIPD qualifications which will stand you in good stead when you leave.