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I love this announcement and think it is great that Harry has found someone he wants to settle down with, but all I seem to hear from people about the prospect of a royal wedding is; will we get a day off?

If there was a 'rolling eyes' emoji on here, this is where I would insert it.

There was a company advertising on the radio THIS MORNING; "Hurry our Black Friday sale ends this Thursday!"

I shouted at the top of my voice (I was in my car at the time ) "Then why call it Black FRIDAY?! You might as well call it 'Black Week With An Extra Few Days Thrown In If We Feel Like It' !!"

Grrrrrrrrrr 

Got another one for you:

A boy and his father are in a car accident and are taken to hospital. The boy is rushed to surgery but the surgeon says to the surgical team "I cannot operate on this boy - he is my son." 

Is the surgeon lying?

Hi Rebecca

I work for myself too so I decided long ago that I would have my own Christmas do and invite anyone that has helped me along the way in my business - my sister, husband, mum (basically anyone that has had to put up with me for the last year...!) - so maybe you could do the same?

Of course, I decided to do this way before the invites to all my client's Christmas Dos came in... I now have four parties lined up and all I can think about is; is it ok to wear the same outfit to each?!?!?  

The teachers are Lucy's BROTHERS! 

One of the lessons I learnt from a very smart marketing agency I had the pleasure of working for, was that most companies always think about WHAT they want to achieve and HOW they want to achieve it without thinking about WHY they want to do it. If you ask yourself WHY you do what you do, then the WHAT and the HOW take care of themselves.

Try it!

Funny how we're told every year that we're going to have 'the coldest winter on record'.... I think these rumours are started by woolly hat manufacturers 

Hmmm.. food for thought...

We had some vans broken into outside our offices a while ago and the first thing the Police asked was whether we had CCTV. We had, and played the footage back only to watch half an hour of two hooded characters attempting to steal our vans.  Average height, average weight, black clothes. Very useful.

Now if we'd had the CCTV cameras at a height that would have caught their faces instead of the tops of their hoods then that would have been useful....

So just think about that when installing CCTV cameras. Obviously don't put them somewhere reachable so that a savvy burglar can drop his jacket over the lens while he nicks your car, but equally if you can have a camera installed indoors (or hidden in a hedge...?) in a position that will capture something useful like their faces - then this is surely the way forward.

I know you might think that having a camera somewhere visible acts as a deterrent, but it clearly doesn't when a hoodie can hide a multitude of sins.

I think the reason why no-one reads covering letters anymore is because they are boring and say the same old stuff about being 'a team player', 'highly motivated', 'reliable' etc etc... YAWN

When I have applied for jobs in the past I have always written a slightly obscure and amusing covering letter. With most employers it has worked a treat and I have been offered an interview (and later the job...) and with the ones it hasn't resonated with, they obviously aren't the sort of people I would want to work with anyway!

So, to all applicants out there: Jazz up your covering letter and if it actually gets read, it might be enough to help you stand out from the crowd 

Hi all

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