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Hey Cassandra!

Things are generally pretty great thanks! The job is very hard work, and I'm very stressed, but in a good way - i.e. it's because the business is growing. My boss is the most disorganised person I've ever come across, but he's lovely, and is completely flexible and understanding about my IBS - and as a result so far I've only missed 1 1/2 days in my first 6 months, as I don't panic about it.

The car is brilliant, I love it. Some little grotbag kid scratched the side of it a few weeks ago - they did 45 cars in our area on one night!

It'll be a few hundred pounds to sort out, so will have to wait for a while...

Jamie is cool too - he started a new job on Monday, which means he got rid of his a**hole boss at the old place, so he's feeling better already. He's working in a more famoous company (Bostik, who make glue and sealants, etc), getting paid substantially more, has an easier job, more support from his bosses and it's doing what he does best - perfect!!

The only real downsides we've had is that both my nans are still really poorly, one had to have another operation and is only 5 1/2 stone, we're basically pretty much watching her fade away.

Also 2 weeks ago I was working from home (I do this usually 2, sometimes 1 day a week), and I suddenly became aware that something felt wrong - I walked out of the living room and into the dining room, to see that water was literally waterfalling through the kitchen ceiling!1

A pipe fitting had burst behind the sink up in the new bathroom, and we have a high pressure water system, so in a very short time it completely flooded the new bathroom

and started coming through into the kitchen below.

It was pouring through the light fitting, down all 4 walls, and it was about an inch deep, and had spread into the dining room. So of course I ran upstairs and the bathroom, which you step down into, was a few inches deep - very scary and for the first time in my life I went hysterical!

Anyhow, to cut a long story short it's now an insurance matter - because of gravity the bathroom will be ok, a few tiles will just need re-grouting and the towels replaced; the kitchen needs a new ceiling, some new plaster on a couple of the walls, new flooring, and probably a new set of kitchen units (hope so - desperate for a different kind of kitchen!

); also the wall between the kitchen and dining room needs re-plastering on both sides, the dining room needs re-wallpapering, and a new carpet.

Great fun! And we can't start on any of the remedial work until the drying company, who have 4 major industrial strength de-humidifiers and 6 massive fans in our house, have got the damp everywhere down to at least 17% - at the moment the bathroom is 23% which is great, but most of the kitchen is still 100%!

Anyway, how are you? Things going a little better yet? Hope so..... !!

PS - now had 5 out of the 6 antibiotic tablets and had plenty of side effects - itchy everywhere, joints aching, headache & all weak/shaky, but the cystits is about gone, so hopefully they're doing the job!

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