Saturday at the Gardens

[commonpeople1]

Volunteers at Abbey Gardens
Originally uploaded by olliefern

I returned to that community garden yesterday after a two-week break. It's amazing how much can change in that time: flower stalks twice as high; petals twice as shiny; lemons and strawberries ready for plucking; beautiful lettuce heads we can harvest (the first time I took something from the Gardens home.)

I sowed some Leaf Beets and trimmed flowers off sweet peas. One of the volunteers, a woman that always shows up in dresses, black church shoes and pearl necklaces, introduced herself as Thérèse before asking me where I was from. When I found out she was from Cameroon, I asked if she spoke french; from then on, it was all ça va, oui and au revoir. I'm very happy to now have someone to practice my broken french every Saturday!

Today, I dropped by Blanche to feed her and worked on my CV (successfully managed to get it down to 2 pages.) I was about to start working on a job application for the Southbank Centre when I saw minuting as one of the job descriptions... and all the joy drained out of me. I must remind myself that this is not the age to be picky about what's going to pay for my bills.

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[amypops.livejournal.com]

Working for the Southbank Centre would be really cool! Minuting has to be the suckiest of sucky jobs though :-S

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Minuting is down there as my most hated thing at work. Thank god I don't have to do it in my current temp job.

Southbank would indeed be good, but sometimes it's frustrating working somewhere awesome in a bad position - it's like being a trained actor and working as the receptionist in the theatre.

[amypops.livejournal.com]

Can you believe I got told about an hour ago that I might pick up some work from someone who's leaving that'll include minuting a horribly long monthly meeting! AAAAAhhhhh!!! Let's hope it's all rumours...

I guess I have low expectations; I've always been the person supporting the people doing the actual work! You could entertain fantasies that they'll spot your fabulousness and let you do lots of interesting and important things :-)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Ay ya!!! I hope the rumours turn out to be untrue. I can feel your pain...

I've always been the person supporting too but I've got to the stage where it just wasn't worth the very small salary they paid me for it! If I'm going to get paid little, then let me at least be doing something fun. ;-)

[olamina.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I LOVE minuting. Too bad I am not there. I would send my CV right away. Oh to minute again......*starts to dream*

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You pulling my leg, aren't ya?

[olamina.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I even instituted minute taking when I lived at Flux Factory

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You'd make a lot of money in London if you lived here. Good minuting is a much sought-after skill here.

[olamina.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'll keep that in mind...