This is quite unusual for me - posting an entry on a Tuesday Morning.
(The Wolverine image is, I think, a good representation of how I feel at the moment. The Wolverine character is often grumpy, always - seemingly - angry, and short tempered. Also determinded?)

It is my day off ( one of two ) and the downside is that I have to work Saturday (BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)

I am sat here - waiting for the Wardrobe Man to come. Laura is still to go to school, Liam having left a few minutes ago with his mates.

(please note : this posting has actually taken my about 90 minutes to complete for one reason or other - but the basic concept is still there)

I have three major worries at the moment - neither of which I can do anything about.

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Worry One:

After Bush's ultimatum of last evening, it would appear War starts on Wednesday. The cost for Tony Blair continues to rise (it appears, on this side of the Atlantic, that George Bush is having a relatively easy passage to get what he wants - I'm sure its not true - but that is the perception). Watching Robin Cook's resignation speech on the news is one of the "bravest" things that I have seen from a Politician in a long time. It is sad that, obviously a man of conviction, has been bad mouthed by some commentators for "not standing with the Government". I disagree. He is obviously against Military Action at this point in time, and I , for one think he has done the right thing. That is "democracy" - the allowance of a free person to express their own view, to have their own beliefs - isn't this supposedly part of what this "Police Action" is all about.

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Worry Two:

We , in BT retail , are waiting for the result for strike action against the incentive scheme I have mentioned before. The problem, however , for me was that the vote goes straight a Strike. I , personally, don't think this is the right way forward. We can make our point more effectively from the "inside" so to speak. BT has, for a long time, run on the good will of it's workers, no good will - BT has problems.

Sadly, I suspect that the vote will be in favour of a strike, and I for one will have a severe problem with this, not only on a monetary basis, but actually a moral one.

I will have to think about this very deeply.

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Worry three:

Having just help move my brother to his new home (the originator of the Greenhouse saga - ) the firm he works for , Corus plc, have announced that they will have to make people redundant to make up some of the losses the group have made in the last year. It has also been mentioned that they may well close a whole production facility here in the UK. That is just my brothers luck - he moves and then the firm say "oh Dear". It is a great concern to us all. I hope thing turn out OK - but it is obvious that someone is going to lose out somewhere.

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Just a final thought - Xanga HQ - are you listening.

I have to honest - few people have been commenting on the fact that they have had problems posting Images on their Xanga site. Up until an hour ago I thought that they must have been doing something wrong or what ever. This A.M. I got a message saying that they could not upload my images because there maybe some problem with my Internet connection and the like - I'm sorry but that is utter rubbish. I have a broadband line and I fit them for a living. I know when a line is not working correctly, and my line is fine.