Yes, the topic of discussion today is fire and what happens when an HGV drives into the side of a plastics factory. The resulting explosion causes a fire that produces lots of acrid, thick black smoke. Luckily when this happened opposite the estate that I live on, I wasn’t there to witness it.

(Picture courtesy of S Mosby)

Unluckily though, it did mean that I wasn’t able to get back home from work as the police had corderned off all of the surrounding area as unstable gas canisters were exploding constantly in the fire.

Luckily, I was at work until 10:30pm (although I had started at 7:30am) so this meant that by the time I went home I could drive home (well, after talking a police officer into letting me through the cordon).

Damn, being at work means that I get to miss all the fun. I’ll resign to the fact that earning the money is better than witnessing poisonous smoke

I recently received an e-mail to let me know that three of my photos have been selected as finalist entries to appear in a new online guide for Manchester.  The photos are these:

           

I was really chuffed to get the e-mail and, although I don’t win anything if they get selected to appear, it’s still really cool to have photos published

Yes, I have a job.  I’m working as a temporary recruitment consultant for Reed Social Care.  Basically it’s an extension of the job the I do at weekends, but is a lot more involved and pays a little more.

Very happy

Just to let you all know that I have moved into my new house, but have no internet access there at the mo.

It’s all going great.  Just looking for a job to keep me occupied during the week.

Loads to talk about, will have some good posts once I have the time and internet to do them.

Martyn

I just found out that I did not get that temporary position in the Uni marketing dept. Not too sure why, just got the bog standard “Thank you for attending the mini intveriew this morning, however on this occasion you were unsuccesful in being chosen for the role.” At the interview, she seemed to be impressed with what I was saying. What went wrong? Surely somebody who has experience in admin, marketing and assisting others should be able to get a simple temporary marketing assistant job?

Ah well, I suppose I’ll just have to keep on searching!