Up The Farway Tree

End of one phase..

So this was my last week at work and I start my new job on Monday.....arghh! I had the last few days as holiday so I could get myself into general adult psychiatry mode. This involved reading guidelines on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder while getting the train into town for shopping. Seemed a fair compromise to me :-) I am really quite nervous and although I know a few people, there are also so many people I don't know and so many new things to learn. It's just that feeling of not quite knowing what's about to happen - I don't even have a timetable set out yet so not sure when clinics are and when I do emergency work etc but I am sure it will all become clear on Monday. I hope.

I had a good time last weekend meeting up with friends from London who were up in Glasgow sorting out some wedding preparation (same friends we met when we went to London). I thought we were heading for a nice meal and maybe a couple of drinks and had duly purchased my return train ticket (last train at 11.30pm). It didn't quite work out like that and we ended up at The Garage which is a big nightclub in Glasgow - not renowned for being a high class establishment. It's where we went almost every Thursday at uni where we danced to cheesy pop whilst dodging broken glass bottles littering the floor and people waving their cigarettes on the dance floor, knowing never to put your arm down on a table or it would be soaked in some unknown drink, and best of all, being literally stuck to the floor at times. We loved the sticky floor! It would seem that health and safety might have caught up with them eventually - the drinks were served in plastic cups, so no more broken glass and staff were going about with mops actually cleaning the not so sticky floor. We all nearly fell off our seats when someone came and actually wiped the table. It was all so wrong. Otherwise however it was all the same...except we are all 10 years older - scary. Myself and Andrew escaped before 2am when games of 'chink and drink' were well under way. I heard they stayed until 3am before sampling the Glasgow chips and cheese. Not sure I want to know much more than that.



Despite the late night Andrew made good progress with the garden and he made the new flower bed from sleepers, shifted the ton of topsoil into it and also moved the whole ton of chips to cover that area. Good work. We now just need to pot some plants into the flower bed and finish repairing the bench before moving it. Nearly finished this years garden phase then.

Seb is sad at the loss of his topsoil bag lookout! He has of course been padding about the new flower bed and kicking up the soil, barking and generally making sure we know it now belongs to him. We are putting weed fabric down so bought some bark to cover it - I am sure this is going to be a mistake and can just see Seb with a tail full of bark! He has been a bit clingy this week (think because I have been away a few times recently). He is still often hiding when it's time for me to leave but I know all his hidey holes now so have to go and find him and put him in the hall. I guess he knows it makes me leave 5 mins later. I was in when the dog walker came the other day and he wouldn't go with her because I was in the house -I think he thought I might leave when he was out. I made him go though and she said he was fine as soon as he got on his walk - wee chancer!

This weekend is my friend Claire's 30th birthday celebration so I am really looking forward to that. It's in Edinburgh so we will go and stay with mum and dad and get the train in. Should be a good night :-)

I keep meaning to try and do shorter but more frequent blog entries - so going by that rule I should update shortly on the new job...