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[graculus]

Just a quick update on the new job situation - it looks like all my paperwork has been done, including a quick trip to HQ yesterday to reassure them that my over-honesty in terms of filling in medical disclosure forms is not a problem, so I'm now waiting for the formal offer. Then it's three months and we're off!

Yes, I have to give 3 months' notice in writing. Meh.

In other news, I was getting my hair chopped off yesterday and, as usual, eavesdropping on other conversations going on in the salon, only to discover that the girl cutting hair next to me didn't know what The Ashes was. Seriously. Her customer was talking about being on holiday abroad and her husband spending all day in the pub because The Ashes was on and this chica didn't have a clue.

For USians among us, the only comparable thing I could think of would be not knowing what the World Series or the Superbowl was. Given the recent success of England's men and women in cricket matches against Australia, I can only think the lass in question must have been living under a rock for at least the past couple of weeks, if not most of her life.

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[rhade-rad.livejournal.com]

Sounds on a par with the wife of the man who commented on the BBC's live text. He was listening to Test Match Special as they drove somewhere and she tried to engage with the event by asking him who he thought was the better bowler Andrew Flintoff or his brother Freddie? *G*

(For the US brigade Andrew is widely (and more usually) known by the nickname bestowed on him by his Lancashire teammates who with great imagination and wit realised that 'Flintoff' wasn't that different from 'Flintstone'.)