Monday, 24 August 2009

So much for blogging regularly

It's 3 weeks since the first post. This was supposed to become a regular blog but has failed rather miserably so far. Too much going on at the moment...but that's a poor excuse! Home has been a bit chaotic since we decided to go ahead with the renovations and we will have to leave with work still under way and much remaining to be done.
We have still managed to do a lot in the time we have been here but nowhere near as much as we wanted to. We've realised that this year is a year of transition with many ups and downs ....there's a pattern...it happens every 7 years or so, with some good things happening to us but also some not so good things affecting the family.

Monday, 3 August 2009

The new slave labour

A rather dramatic title for an article in the Guardian this past weekend, on a theme we are all too familiar with: the increase in internships rather than real jobs and the fact that people are taking advantage of the worst job hunting scenario in ages to hire young people without paying them.