Sorry for the long gap

Sine the last post appears to be from March - and I have only just released the April one - it does seem a long time since I blogged. However, things have been busy in life, work and Guiding.  Life - boomerang children are keeping us on our toes.  I like having them but I am not too keen on the boxes, extra furniture etc.  And there do seem to be an enormous number of shoes in the hell nowadays.
Work - angry client keeps asking me to do work but we are very very busy and I am working in Zurich quite a lot at the minute so the last thing I want to do is help her when I just get beaten up about things.  So I work out what things will cost then double it - might as well get paid for the aggravation.
Guiding - seems to be booming at the mo.  Commissioners and Advisers Air and Share went well - lots of ideas for growing guiding etc.  Census still dragging on with the final few still to pay.   Our numbers are now just short of 10000.  A great Geocaching badge launched.  Lots of work done at HW - including a clean sheet for the water supply.  Best of all though - we have permission to have the song we wanted on the DVD we are  making.  And lots lots lots more.

The bullying client

I have been quiet recently because since getting back from Wales (See previous post) I have been trying to cope with a very difficult client. I should have been warned at th start when she phoned me and threatened to report me to my Chairman for not returning calls - which I had 3 times and have the phone records to show that. Unfortunately due to a mistake by colleagues I got data for a report very late and so the report was a rushed job and, as it transpired, the data they sent me was wrong. Since then, no matter what I do they find fault - X is NOT happy/X is angry/This could have been written by a 6 year old/I could have produced these charts (well of course you could - it is your data but you asked me to produce them...).

There comes a point where you have been polite, defended yourself, pushed back on the more extreme comments and then you think it just isn't worth it anymore so you stop saying anything. However, their last demand is probably going to be the tipping point - I must join a conference call during my holiday next week where they will, no doubt, tear me off another strip. I have pointed out it is my holiday but they don't think that is a good reason - my husband on the other hand, rightly, says I should refuse. None of the other people on the project are willing to help me out so I am stuck. I really am at my wits end on this one.

Still Surrey west is 2.3% bigger than it was a year ago....must look on the bright side.