I'm going to stake out a cupcakery tomorrow
and then there's a giant disorganised picnic in Manchester so I'll probably wander over there at some point. It used to be D-something (percussion maybe?) but the organisers stopped doing it so people are just going to do it by themselves.

What you are you doing BeckyBix?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:01, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

by stake out
do you mean you are going to sit in a car outside eating junk food and drinking coffee while occasionally looking through binoculars?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I'd much prefer to go
On a steak out.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:08, Reply)

mmmm, steak
I'm too poor for steak at the moment.

I will have to let the memory of the beef wellington I ate on my birthday keep me going until my mrs gets a payrise
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:17, Reply)

Any further word on that payrise?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:27, Reply)

the wheels are in motion
they are having a bit of a local management reshuffle with a couple of people leaving, so her boss is moving up a level, the more experienced chartered engineer is moving up to be Mrs V's superior, and Mrs V will be the main project engineer. By the sounds of it they are going to see how much others at the same level are being paid in the company and should be bringing her pay up to that.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:29, Reply)

Excellent news!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:31, Reply)

hopefully
with a bit of luck we might end up £400 a month better off.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:33, Reply)

Think of all the croissants...

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:36, Reply)

Wow, that's quite a boost!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:38, Reply)

yeah, she deserves it though.
She works bloody hard and was underpaid even before she was chartered.

She's currently on £6k less than I am and should really be on more than me (particularly given how much harder that me she works). we're hoping that they'll give her that extra £6k
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Just a minute. Kitty O'Hara said she might soon be £400 better off,
and the very same day Vipros expresses the same.

My super powers of deduction* tell me something may be going on here.



*(Well that, and the fact that you both keep mentioning the possibility of something going on.)
(Cave Duck, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:55, Reply)

There isn't anything going on.....
....YET
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Almost. We're going to actually go in there though
and buy coffee and cupcakes and surreptitiously make a note of how many people come in and what they order, so we can put some figures in our business plan.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I'm working tomorrow morning, then going for a mooch round camden and possibly bodeans or hummingbird bakery
Sunday I'll be finishing writing up cases that I don't get finished today.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:10, Reply)

mmmm hummingbird
that's what inspired me in the first place. Wiggy went there recently and brought me back a box of cupcakes.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:35, Reply)

They are verreh tasty I must say. Also I can find their shop easily which is no mean feat considering my navigation skills in that part of london

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:38, Reply)

I have the book. My sister made the marshmallow ones without me there :(
You seem like the sort of person who'd know where to find tinned pumpkin. Do you?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:59, Reply)

D-Percussion was fun
it was a giant connection of free gigs. And the first time, shame of shames, that I actually went to Castlefield. With all those ruins I should have been more enthusiastic.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I was on the train the other day going past Castlefield
and there's an artificial beach right next to the canal. I can't decide if it's awesome or gross.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Oooh, will explore.
whenever the fuck I'm back in Manc for an extended period.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 12:00, Reply)