What does this sign mean & more RANTINGS?!!

I've been to the park pretty much every day for the last week. There's a reason for this. It's been raining for days & days & days and the park has paths that Ann can walk on. At least when we get home, it's only me that's muddy.


We've been meaning to ask........................ does anyone know what this dog sign means? There's one at each end of the park and we've also seen a couple on lamp-posts too. Anyone have any idea?

And in other news......................... our weather app has lied again. It said it was going to rain all day today and it hasn't rained at all. I went to the park first thing this morning because Ann said that by this afternoon, it would be absolutely chucking it down, so I'd probably only get a little walk. It wasn't chucking it down, so I went out for just over an hour, but we just pounded the streets because all our normal dog walking routes are incredibly muddy at the moment.

If Ann had known that it wasn't going to rain today we would have gone on a big long walk after breakfast, and had an adventurous day out together. Hindsight is a great thing!

Our routine at the moment seems to be....................... morning walk, followed by breakfast and an hour of catch up TV, Ann 'writes' for the rest of the morning. I have snooze time. Lunch and an hour of catch up TV, followed by my afternoon walk. We're usually home by 3.30pm (and this is going to get earlier now that the clocks have gone back) and by then Ann is tired so she switches on the TV and we watch 'Four in a bed' until she thinks it's an acceptable time to have a glass of wine. Lol!

She actually thinks that she needs something to do, late afternoon for 3-4 hours, so she applied for a part-time job in a 'dessert shop' just up the road. They needed someone to start immediately and who would be happy to work alone. Mmmmmm......... how difficult can it be selling a few ice-creams & waffles (& actually Ann worked in an ice cream shop in 1979 so she's got experience. Lol!). Unfortunately she made the mistake of popping into the shop to ask what the job entailed, before submitting her application. The 12 year old OK slight exaggeration that she spoke to said, 'We're all students here and the job can get very stressful.' Seriously?! Ann has never seen anyone in the shop. Ever!!! The shop is open 3-11pm and Ann was thinking that a four hour shift from 3pm-7pm two/three times a week would be OK. TBH, why would an ice cream shop even be open until 11pm in Scotland in the winter anyway? Who buys ice cream at 11 o'clock at night? It should be open from 9am so at least the 'yummy mummies' can pop in for a coffee after they've dropped their kids off at school.

Ann also applied for a job at our local cinema. They were looking for staff to start immediately (and Ann worked as an usherette at the Odeon Cinema for three weeks over Christmas/New year in 1980/81 so she's got experience. Lol And she got to watch 'Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs' more than 20 times???). Neither of these places have had the decency to even reply to her. Fortunately, she is confident enough to know that she could do the job ten times better than the students, that everyone in Edinburgh seems to want to employ.

Can anyone remember the massive RANT that Ann had during lockdown, when she went into every single local charity shop in our area to volunteer her services (sorry can't find the Blip) and every single one said, 'Just pop your CV into us'??? …..........For a volunteer job in a Charity shop, that had adverts in their window saying, 'Volunteers urgently required'. Seriously?

Life is so much different in a small seaside town in the Southwest of England. The last couple of times that we've been back in St Ives, Ann has been doing a few shifts in the 'Pool Club' where she used to work a few years ago. (She was headhunted. Lol!!) Old people in St Ives are respected as part of the workforce, whereas if you're not a student in Edinburgh, you might as well be dead.

In Edinburgh we see the same jobs popping up every couple of months, which seems to suggest that they take on students and then they leave.

Says it all doesn't it???

OK RANT over. It's almost 6pm. Must be time for Ann to have a glass of wine now?!!!!  And then we have an evening of 'soaps' on TV to look forward to.  What rock n roll lives we live?!

Happy Monday Evening Blippers.

Toodles. xxxxx