Thunder and lighting...

Things today that have made me smile:

My year 6 group debating a 2 day school week, and being generally a lovely group to spend time with.

Pizza.

Hearing we have almost nearly defintely got a venue and council permission for a Church run cafe with 'value added,' youth and community emphasis.

Having a good conversation with Edd, who has shown up again. He was drunk, so what he will remember, I really don't know, but it was a good conversation, nevertheless.

Being befriended by a lovely cat in the garden.

Being ouside in a tunderstorm, soaked through to the skin, hearing rain thudding off the leaves from the forest around me and children squealing excitedly at the downpour, feeling utterly happy, and glad to be alive. I love thunderstorms!

I spy a band wagon...

You are Ephesians.


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I have come to a conclusion.

The DVLA is staffed by Vogons.

Seriously, I had to renew my car tax, which should involve me taking a form down to the post office, paying the good people there lots of money, and me walking away poorer, but legal.

However... Said form did not arrive, so I made enquiries to find out how I could still be poor and legal. The answer was I had to fill in another form, which would require extra documentation, which would enable to to fill in another form so I could then fill in a form to take with me to the post office.

Vogons, I tell you.

It's not that I have anything against administrators. Quite the opposite, if fact. My own admin skills being somewhat challenged (my filing is not so much a 'system,' as an 'intention,') I am eternally grateful to anyone who can help and guide and be generally administratively useful. However there is a definite line that sometimes get crossed that goes from helpful administration to sheer bloodyminded paper creating that means you end up having to fill forms in to fill forms in to fill forms in. The kind of mind that could come up with this, quite frankly, scares the bejibbleys out of me.
I mean can you imagine going home to someone whose mind works like that? Before you ate, you would have to triple scrub your hands, send tests off to a laboratory, and get independent confirmation that your hands were indeed, clean.

It's Vogon, through and through.

And the end result? Well, my carefully filled out forms were put to the side, with a comment of , 'You don't actually need those forms'. (Cue incredulity and internal aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrg from me)
'Have you got form V2/5? Ahh, no that's not form V2/5, that's form V2/5 supplement. If you look closely you can see, in the small type.'
I'm afraid that at this point it all got a bit too much for me, but the lady behind the desk must have noticed, as she softened instantly from Vogon to granny.
"Actually, I can still do it from this form, although you really do need to get a copy of the other form as soon you can." And then she gave me the kind of advice that lovely, helpful administrators give.

And so, I left. Poorer, but thankfully, legal.