{"id":1458,"date":"2009-05-11T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/nice-hols-but-poo-back-at-work\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:01:50","slug":"nice-hols-but-poo-back-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/nice-hols-but-poo-back-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice hols, but poo &#8211; back at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings campers &#8211; <strong><span style=\"COLOR: #ff007f; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Le Renard d&#39;Argent is back from her hols<\/span><\/strong>, slightly browner, still coughing (thanks to the contagious James W) and vowing never to eat houmous, tabbouleh or baba ganoush again&#8230; even if I could spell it. Pita shitter&#8230; no more of that or the infamous &#39;mix grill&#39; for some time methinks..talk about Groundhog meal three times a day! <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">But Jordan was good &#8211; Petra is indeed awesome<\/span><\/strong>, even for a cynical old bag like me &#8211; it really rocked. Perhaps Hawkesy &amp; I should have packed more than flipflops to &#39;do&#39; Petra &#8211; after 5 hours walking and a trog up a montain to see the final site, the Monastery, I was still fine but poor H&#39;s feet were actually bleeding&#8230;. apparently its my job to make sure he packs the right shoes for holidays! The things you learn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And <strong><span style=\"COLOR: #bf00bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">we just about beat the Pope<\/span><\/strong> to the main Jordan sights before he tipped up in his Popemobile &#8211; the TV was saying &#39;and we&#39;ve upgraded and painted all the places that the Pope will visit&#39; &#8211; well, given that we were there 2 days before he was, i couldn&#39;t see any evidence of tarting up, pretty much everything still looked and smelled like a shithole, so here&#39;s hoping dear old Benedict is a little short on sight, on long on papal foregiveness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #bf5f00; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Couldn&#39;t wait to see the moggies again<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; Mojo had chewed her way through a 24 pack of beer to get to the cat flap,&#0160;quite impressive tiger-style claw marks&#0160;had left the box in bits. And Conker was firmly attached halfway up the curtains, trying to get a fly resting tantalisingly on the curtain pole. Am sure in their own sweet way they&#39;ve missed us and are just been like sulky teenagers pretending not to care&#8230; Conker also gifted me a great cat bogey this morning as she edged up the duvet with it dangling off her whiskers like a giant clingon, what a lovely start to the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #40a0ff; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">So, here I am back at work<\/span><\/strong>. Minus my wig for the first time &#8211; have been waiting all day for someone to say&#0160;the immortal phrase&#0160;&#39;ooh, you&#39;ve had your hair cut&#39; but have only had &#39;mmmm, I quite like your hair&#39; from one person. I think it was the use of the word &#39;quite&#39; that gave that one away! Highlight of the day so far was a maggot crawling up&#0160;a beanbag as we had our Monday morning meeting&#8230;&#0160;the lucky&#0160;occupant was the brand new guy from AV China, just arrived today, nice timing Maxwell. <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"COLOR: #60bf00; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Must get off my butt and whack some photos on here soon<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; I&#39;ve been getting abuse for i) lack of new blogs and ii) lack of photos so will try and do better soon! Sx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings campers &#8211; Le Renard d&#39;Argent is back from her hols, slightly browner, still coughing (thanks to the contagious James W) and vowing never to eat houmous, tabbouleh or baba ganoush again&#8230; even if I could spell it. 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