Random signage

This sign at first may seem perfectly sensible, until at closer inspection the words, "attack the fire if possible using the appliances provided". When i saw this i immediately thought, what if you're not in the kitchen, because most appliances like fridges and dishwashers tend to be found there. As the sign says appliances are provided i expected to see washing machines and fridges hung on the walls like fire extinguishes unfortunately none are to be found. Secondly what if you're not able to lift the appliance; I guess this is why the sign says to attack the fire if possible. Finally, what effect is lobbing a fridge onto the fire going to have, maybe cause it to explode which i suppose may lead to the combustion of any flammable items causing the fire to stop. If this is the thought behind it then i can't help but suggest that throwing oxygen tanks onto the fire or propane to achieve not only a more effective fire fighting technique, but a more spectacular one also.

P.s as far as I'm concerned, fire extinguishes are not appliances, they are wall art.

Mishaps

Being Thursday today there was very little to do today at work, so much of the day was spent walking around looking for jobs to do. When I began to do the exciting job of refilling soap containers i learnt my first lesson of the day, don't overfill them or this happens.

It dripped for about 2 hourse afterwards which meant i had to keep coming back to it to wipe away the antibacterial soap. I also learned that if you are in the girls bathroom, do not stare at a tampon machine and press the buttons on it and not expect to get strange looks from girls passing by. In my defense when i did see it i intially thought it may be a hand drier, turns out i was wrong-very wrong and am quite happy that the current batch of american students at the college leave tomorrow.
Another easy day tomorrow so lets hope i can find something to do

Harry Potter

Also sorry the new Harry potter film today, i guess it was better than the others maybe because this one tries to have a feasible story. If you haven't read the book then you won't understand whats going on, if you have like the rest of Britain you may begin to wonder that you could've done something better with your time. Mainly because the final line of the film is guaranteed to either make you cringe, or cry. Please choose the former or i may disown you.

Yet another dull day, but the weather was nice

Commuting to work on the bus is usually a pleasant experience if you've got a good book to read for the journey. Unfortunately in the past few weeks large numbers of foreign students have starting catching the bus to oxford in huge numbers. This may not be so annoying if they queued like the rest of us but they always skip to the front screaming at their friends. Hence whenever the bus stops with its doors at the back of the queue there is always a silent cheer and smug faces from the otherwise grim English. Thankyou for taking the time to read this xenophobic rant.
On non related news work today was a standard Wednesday, lots of climbing up staircases and taking linen bags back down with you. At the end of the day i felt i climbed up and down those staircases enough that i had climbed the equivalent of wittingham clumps, so we're talking extreme heights here. Of course the great height did mean there was a good opportunity to banister sled which livened up the day. The other positive thing about today, was that the weather was nice, HURRAY.

Its about bloody time

I know there is a general uproar about this but it is about time that the nuisance of donkey dung was dealt with and what better way than placing a nappy on the donkey.

• Kenya donkey nappy plan

On a more serious note, was this the best suggestion they could come up with, placing nappies on donkeys. I wouldn't like to know what the other suggestions were, maybe a donkey cull or "plugging" the donkeys with a cork so they couldn't defecate in the city. Sometimes you really have to wonder whats going to come next; maybe tieing song birds' beaks shut with string so they can't cause noise pollution or trying to commute to work on a cheetah to reduce pollution. On second thought that 2nd idea sounds pretty good, where did i put that number for transport department...

More work stuff-therefore very exciting

To enable you to get a better feel for the excitement of my job i have enclosed some pictures that really capture the essence of the jobIn this picture you can see a 4ft pile of unsorted linen called "linen pike"
Below the linen has been sorted into its various piles, on the left is the "flat sheet ridge" which is worryingly damp and leads to "duvet cover mountain". There are also other smaller piles of pillowcases and such which adds to the sorting excitement.

This shows linen sorted, counted and bagged into eleven linen bags. Thios job took about 1.5 to 2 hours and was surprisingly enough quite boring, but it least it very little effort. Thankyou for taking the time to begin to fully appreciate the many aspects of my job. It may also be worthing mentioning that i'm partially allergic to the linen as it is washed in bio washing powder-which provides a degree of daring to the job that i'm sure all can understand!

Long time, no writing

Well its been almost 2 months since i wrote anything here, mainly because i couldn't think of anything to say. And in that respect not a whole lot has changed. Now exams are over I'm working at lady margaret hall in oxford which is not a alltogether thrilling unless of course you enjoy moving linen around rooms all day. Since i do it by myself it is even more boring because it is so solitary. Since school is over life is alltogether more dull and i occupy myself looking forward to going to Durham if i get the results which makes results day rather more stressful because i really want to go there. Of course i'm also looking forward to getting paid which makes work worthwile because i'll finally be able to buy a computer for university among other things. But until then, back to the lonely hard graft of work for another few weeks.