Flock of seagulls

I’ve noticed the last places of work were surrounded with birds, of the feathered variety! IBM had Canadian Geese, Uni of Southampton had common ducks and here at the Sussex uni, seagulls have taken residency which never (f#@king) shutup! From dawn they wake each other with their wailing chorus, fly over to the beach just to remind themselves that they’re ‘sea’gulls not inland gulls, come back and continue their squawking almost 24 hours a day – it’s like a landfill! Hopefully I’ll get used to it and they’ll stay away from our new house.

New job going well with lovely, friendly people. Very sociable in fact with a lots of events, coffee breaks, a department cover band and a Christmas panto (slightly scared at that one). By the end of the week all the newness started to get to me with a lot work topics going straight over my head.

Finally, as we made our decision to exit our Southampton flat and enter a 6 month contract, the estate agent calls to say the house chain had completed with the last link deciding on renting. Spun me into a complete panic but, with all the uncertainty of whether any part of chain will have a problem, we pressed ahead with the new rented flat.