Blogs and abroad
August 21st 2008 09:33
The last few days at work have been a mix of getting on with the jobs that are mine particularly and fitting in lots of little tasks that become mine because I’m number three in the team of three. Not officially bottom of the ladder, but certainly sitting on one of the lower rungs. That’s fine. After years of managing the shop, I don’t need any extra responsibility.
One of my jobs there is to keep the office blog going (Mission Resource); sometimes it’s a bit of a task fitting this in between everything else. At other times it makes a refreshing change from tasks that become a bit mind-frazzling. It’s not the sort of blog where I can let myself loose, however. It has more of a focus than most of the blogs I write, and that’s okay. Every so often I manage to sneak in a personal opinion, but for the most part I have to save those for the blogs where no one’s going to smack my hand if I step out of line.
On another tack altogether, I’ve just been checking out the HitTail result for my Travel Diary blog, which has kind of done its dash as far as new posts are concerned, because I ain’t travelling (!).
For that very reason, I don’t often check the HitTail results on this blog, but I’d been checking out the ones on my main blog and thought I’d have some variety. (Kind of like I need at work at times, where instead of flopping down in the home theater seating and watching a movie, as I’d sometimes like to do – but of course can’t – I work on the office blog for a while)
The other advantage is that it means I can go back to the Travel blog and remember some of the incidents and such that I’ve put out of the forefront of my mind. So when Villa Cartegna 881 came up on the search queries, I was intrigued to find my blog came up second on the list (after the Roman bus timetables!). We spent quite a bit of time on the 881 while we were in Rome. It was a slow, trundly trip that took us from outside our hotel and dropped us down near St Peter’s – and then back again.
The next search query was for Mundesley nuisance. (!) I don’t know that the searcher would have found much about ‘nuisance’ but Mundesley is a small seaside town where my wife worked for a time back in the sixties, and where (on our trip last year) she asked the first woman she encountered on the street if they knew where the place was that she’d worked at. Of course they did. And had a relative who’d worked there.
The next search was for Mamble graveyard. I mention both Mamble and a graveyard in the same post, but the graveyard’s in a different village altogether – in the village of Crowle, in fact. After years of singing a song about the village of Mamble, we found it disappointing, to say the least.
The last query I’m going to mention today is ‘jobs in Thetford for foreigners’. I don’t know what the searcher might have been looking for (that’s always the intriguing part about these queries), but they brought up my travel blog at the top of the list. Thetford seems to be almost notorious for employing Eastern Europeans and other EU country bodies, and not necessarily treating them well. I got the feeling when we were over there that there’d been quite a hue and cry about it already.
One of my jobs there is to keep the office blog going (Mission Resource); sometimes it’s a bit of a task fitting this in between everything else. At other times it makes a refreshing change from tasks that become a bit mind-frazzling. It’s not the sort of blog where I can let myself loose, however. It has more of a focus than most of the blogs I write, and that’s okay. Every so often I manage to sneak in a personal opinion, but for the most part I have to save those for the blogs where no one’s going to smack my hand if I step out of line.
On another tack altogether, I’ve just been checking out the HitTail result for my Travel Diary blog, which has kind of done its dash as far as new posts are concerned, because I ain’t travelling (!).
For that very reason, I don’t often check the HitTail results on this blog, but I’d been checking out the ones on my main blog and thought I’d have some variety. (Kind of like I need at work at times, where instead of flopping down in the home theater seating and watching a movie, as I’d sometimes like to do – but of course can’t – I work on the office blog for a while)
The other advantage is that it means I can go back to the Travel blog and remember some of the incidents and such that I’ve put out of the forefront of my mind. So when Villa Cartegna 881 came up on the search queries, I was intrigued to find my blog came up second on the list (after the Roman bus timetables!). We spent quite a bit of time on the 881 while we were in Rome. It was a slow, trundly trip that took us from outside our hotel and dropped us down near St Peter’s – and then back again.
The next search query was for Mundesley nuisance. (!) I don’t know that the searcher would have found much about ‘nuisance’ but Mundesley is a small seaside town where my wife worked for a time back in the sixties, and where (on our trip last year) she asked the first woman she encountered on the street if they knew where the place was that she’d worked at. Of course they did. And had a relative who’d worked there.
The next search was for Mamble graveyard. I mention both Mamble and a graveyard in the same post, but the graveyard’s in a different village altogether – in the village of Crowle, in fact. After years of singing a song about the village of Mamble, we found it disappointing, to say the least.
The last query I’m going to mention today is ‘jobs in Thetford for foreigners’. I don’t know what the searcher might have been looking for (that’s always the intriguing part about these queries), but they brought up my travel blog at the top of the list. Thetford seems to be almost notorious for employing Eastern Europeans and other EU country bodies, and not necessarily treating them well. I got the feeling when we were over there that there’d been quite a hue and cry about it already.
In Thetford
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