Gardening leave - today I walked into Nomura at 7am and was out at 10am having resigned. The start of three months being paid to stay at home. I couldn't stop myself...the first person I told of this joyous development, besides my family, was the plumber who was toiling away on our shower room when I got home. He looked at me with appropriate bemusement. It is a crazy thing, but I'll deny it if you try to quote me.
The sun was out. It was the most beautiful day. I drove back from Whittlesford station with the roof down. Three months. Actually a bit more. Start day at the new job is 6th February. How blinking lucky am I. I am going to make the most of this and partially to provide a bit of discipline, I have decided to keep a diary during my time off. So here we go. (Starting a sentence with So, you can get away with but can you start a sentence with the word Because??? Need to think about that.)
Well, if there wasn't enough excitement today it was Bob's birthday and we had bought tickets to go and see Noah and the Whale at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge preceded by dinner at Wagamama where I witnessed one of the most revolting things ever. Hen was sitting across the table from me when she suddenly paused in the frantic job of shovelling gyoza dumplings down her to exclaim that she had swallowed her tongue stud. A flash of inspiration crossed her face. I can recognise that when I see it....its normally dangerous. Immediately she started fiddling around with her tummy button piercing, unscrewed the stud there and screwed it onto the bolt through her tongue. Barely thirty seconds had elapsed and she was back, tackling a bit of teriyaki chicken. Gross. Totally gross.
I can't pretend that the Corn Exchange is the coolest venue ever, but I have had a thing for Noah and the Whale ever since I hatched a plan to get the whole family lined up on the deck of the yacht we had chartered in the BVI singing Five Years Time whilst I played the recorder. It was just a plan, a good one in my mind, but the crew mutineed. Never happened. Anyway, they're pretty cool. I sneaked a brief video which you can find on Youtube - Bob's birthday party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncCzqexm12A
Quite a day then, Tuesday 25th October and not even day one of gardening leave.
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