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Blessing Force

My friends at Blessing Force put on a fantastic warehouse party this weekend. Lots of art including work from davema, Tin Head, Charlotte Freeston, Valeska Hykel Mears, Amy Honour and Seb Thomas. Music from Rhosyn, Jonquil and Ute and of course, plenty of good times. One of my favourite performances was from ODCdrumline - you can see a great video of it here

There was also a great stall by Smoking Crow Vintage

I made a card for my friend...

Oxfork

Recently my bestest mate Chloe set up a fab underground restaurant in Oxford - named Oxfork. It's one of a kind round these parts and doing very well so far. I help her out making the place look pretty and lending my waitress / hostess experience.
It's a great evening out and really brings together a variety of people. You get to sit with folks you don't know - so best not be shy, just tuck in and make some new friends and eat some yummy food!

You kind find more information on it here or you can buy tickets here

One of the reasons...

So, as you can tell from my previous post. I am unemployed. After years of working, I know find myself without. How did this happen? 

Well, like most of the newly unemployed, circumstance = redundancy. For the last 3 or so years of my like I worked for a radio and television production company with a pretty famous boss. Although, things were going well - making shows for the BBC and producing charity concerts apparently does not mean you are going to make your fortune. So, in the end it all had to finish one way or another... I had to leave. 

After a brief stint working for a friend just before Christmas - which did not work out at all, I am now on my own.

But, out of every dark cloud there has to be a silver lining - in my case, it is realising that I want to work for myself - or with one other person. So, plans are afoot. Exciting ideas are being explored - which I will tell all about at a later date - but it is exciting. A new start, a new beginning... but still a tad scary - as it does involve start up money... but where there is a will there is a way. 

More on this soon x

"Right then Job Seekers!"

Being one of the millions of unemployed, today I ventured 'cap-in-hand' to the local job seekers office, for a fairly humorous interview to claim some much needed cash. First up I had to see an old chap who thought everything was quite funny - apparently in the 80's he had been made redundant from 20 shops in less than a year. Still, he was smiling about it and he helped me fill in the correct form (the one they gave me before was apparently wrong), he seemed like a happy-go-lucky fella and was very helpful.
The second 'interviewer' was a bit more like the general surroundings in there, grey and washed out and looked like he wanted to kill himself. I tried to smile and make him feel less awkward - but he couldn't even look me in the eye. Anyway, it was all sorted. So hence forth, every 2 weeks I shall be there, signing on and awaiting my weekly pittance.
Apparently, after 6 weeks, you have to attend a job seekers seminar - which was happening in the adjoining room. You could see through the window, a woman pointing to a pie chart on a projector screen and about 20 people all looking like they were back at school. *shudder*
It reminded me of this classic...

Onwards and upwards then...