And so another week floats past. Had fun last Sunday up a mountain with a load of other peeps - yet another interweb group (this one based around evil cars). Thankfully it wasn’t the same mountain on which fruitbat was having nude pics taken (again) Work, well work’s just work. Decided over Christmas that what was wrong with the company was wrong before we were taken over so gonna give the new company six months and if things haven’t changed then I really do need to get out. Complained to the boss that stuck away in my little corner of the building I don’t get any information, he agreed that communication was crap and he needed to change things. Good news: we’re getting a cost of living rise - 3% Bad news: it doesn’t come into force until April, though at that point it’s backdated to January. OK, I’m not exactly on the breadline but I don’t think I can ask the landlord to hold the rent increase (up a whopping 12.5%), or the electricity company to hold the price increase (up 8.5%), or the gas company to hold the price increase (up 5%) until I get my pay increase. Ah well. Had a community project meeting on Monday, some movement forward though not much. Since my main activity is going to be begging for funding then I wish we could get to a point where I could start thinking about asking for some of the forms and start filling them in. Sadly that seems as long off now as when I first joined the group 15 months ago. Lost 2.5lbs at Slimming World this week so heading back down towards my target weight. Another couple of weeks like that and I’d be back down there. My slimming got me in the paper last weekend, which meant loads of people at work telling me they’d seen the article in there. If it inspires even one person then I think that’s OK.