Tuesday....24th?

well, it's P&E here this evening...blogging for the first time in three weeks. Not the greatest three weeks, but we move on positively....there's lots to be thankful for...and reflecting on good times is always a way of staying on top of things. There will always be someone worse off ... we need to be grateful for what we have.

Today has been a toughie from a political perspective...it started off well enough with a tour of the La Collette reclamation site...the sun was out...it wasn't raining...and we stood on top of an enormous mound of rubble and viewed the site. All good. That was at 8...and I was in the States by 9:15...we started fine, but a (genuine) fire alarm sent us back out into the Royal Square late morning. It soon became apparent that we wouldn't be using the States Building again today...and after some great work by the technicians...we restarted our sitting in the Assembly Rooms at the Town Hall after lunch. Our subject for debate today was the continued funding of the Jersey Child Abuse Inquiry.... a genuine heavyweight subject that saw us all really struggling with what to do. I won't go on at length, other than to say that we all want to do what's best...but agreeing what that is isn't easy. We ended the day without finishing the debate.....but at least we're back in the Big House tomorrow, and will hopefully be done by lunchtime......I have meetings booked for tomorrow afternoon.

Right...enough politics....family issues now. Jill has had a good day...dog walking to le Saie....went to yoga...friends back from travels that needed chatting to.....(gift of paprika from Budapest??)..vets for dog biscuits....came back from town with Bex....school for the last netball session/match of the season (didn't go well due to girls away with sickness...) cut lawn and pulled weeds...cooked supper. So......she isn't feeling too bad then....and a supermarket shop visit in there as well somewhere.

Bex had some sad (but not totally unexpected) news from work....they don't require her services after this week. It will be six months that she's worked in town after this week...and that means she would be treated as a full time employee....we all suspected that her continued employment was unlikely...such is the frailty of finance sector workers at the moment. She still has two other part time jobs....and can concentrate on those now. Every cloud has a silver lining....let's hope that very soon she's busy fitting all her part time work in.

Jack was at work today....and of course was one of the firemen in the big red fire engine that came to "check out" the States Building when the fire alarm went off. Much amusement among States Members when Jack and I started having conversations in the middle of the Royal Square...mainly because I was telling him to get a move on and check out the building.....we were all freezing stood outside without our coats etc.

Tom had a normal day.....not change there then.....still doing his best to stay just the right side of dismissal...and came home this evening talking about doing a proper brake test in his car. I presume that our reader knows that Tom recently purchased a very high powered BMW? It goes from 40mph to stop in less than the length of our kitchen....WHY does he feel the need to test the brakes. The mind boggles!

Dan isn't going to the UK to get his boat tomorrow... he's disappointed...but it'll be good when they have their new superfast Seafaris boat....probably next week now.

So, that's it from Luceworld today.....I'm exhausted...and, as Zebedee used to say..."time for bed".