I will NOT be bullied!

The Sony camera is increasingly reluctant to co-operate. Well it has a fight on its hands. It will learn that I refuse to give up that easily.

On Saturday my bank refused to accept my sparkly new passport as enough evidence that I have a new identity, so I shall open a new account and transfer my funds. Bye bye.

Also on Saturday, I visited the BBC website with the intention of listening to the radio, but it seems that in order to do that I must now provide them with my date of birth and postcode. Well I'm sorry, but I have no intention of littering the internet with my personal details for nefarious purposes, so instead, I bought a transistor radio online, and if it cannot access the BBC then I shall listen to a different broadcaster. I don't care. I used PayPal to make the purchase and had it delivered to my work address. Our wonderful receptionist signed for it in my absence. \0/

While she was signing for it, I was in a meeting room with my line manager. I have been employed for exactly three calendar months now and so it is make-or-break time. It appears that I have made the grade and I shan't be waved goodbye and sent on my way in any great hurry. Line Manager wanted to write a stupendously long notice period into my contract but is not permitted to do so. Nevertheless, I felt appreciated.

Whilst tucked up in our cosy little meeting room agreeing my six and twelve month “objectives” I suddenly noticed that I had a clear view of my apartment building. This did not come as a huge surprise because I know that I can see the office from the street door to the flat, but when I have tested other windows in the office, there has never been such a clear line of sight.

“I can see my house from here!” I said, at which point my appraisal meeting dissolved into a discussion about whether or not that line originated in the crucifixion scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian. I think probably not, but it's a rare appraisal meeting that closes with both interviewer and interviewee singing together “Always look on the bright side of life (de-dum, di-dah, di-dah-di-dah-di-dah)"