Ugghh

Very grey and dull this morning, so depressing, winter is not my favourite time anyway.

Late up this morning, did not sleep too well, I really need to try and get an appointment with the Dr. Its been going on for too long.

Veg prepped for supper also made a raspberry jelly to use up some of the 7 bags of raspberries that are in the freezer!!

Right Mary....here goes, we moved to Scotland, Edinburgh to be precise in 1990. I was lucky to get a job more or less straight away cooking desserts for a BT unit. It was a temporary position. It was there I first came across prejudice. I was filling in for a lady who was sick. Her sister worked in the same unit, accused me of taking a ******* Scots job. However I pointed out to her that we had to build a town in England for all the Scottish workers who were made redundant by the steel works closing down. Corby was developed to take in workers and their families. It is the only place in England where you can go to a Highland Games in the summer. That shut her up for a bit. I was working for an agency and they sent me to a firm of Solicitors as head chef. Once again I had to put up with one of the partners prejudice. In the mean time DB had been asked to work in the Job Centre. A job he had been in down in England. He saw a vacancy for The Registers of Scotland, I applied and was taken on. There was a different form of land registration in Scotland, it was description based rather than map based as it is here. To put the job simply it was reading through the missives that came in from solicitors, the missives were searched by Officers and if correct were given to us to enter  into big books. Essentially  cutting up bits of paper and sticking them in the book. Sounds simple but it was more complicated than that. I worked there for 4 years. That was the office next to the pub!! There was the worst for prejudice. There was another chap from England who worked there, he told me to put my head down and work, just ignore everyone else. Thats what I did. 

Thats enough for today, will write more another day.

So roast beef from Christmas deforsting, veggies ready to cook, rasps and jelly for dessert.