Interflora for the one, two, three you love

The more avid readers amongst you would have noted that yesterday there was no blog, no happenings or hilarity from the office of Nancy. Sorry about that, once again I found myself overwhelmed with work and the time for blogging evaporated and then suddenly it was 5pm. As you know I don’t do overtime and I’m not using my own free time to write this when I could be out enjoying myself and doing productive things such as drinking and watching CSI Miami episodes. This gap in service may appear from time to time and I will try to limit these absences but bear with us while we return to normality (or abnormality as the case may be).

To be honest not a lot has been going on in Hobbitville anyway, it’s been a quiet week and with illnesses and the like all the freaks and geeks have been keeping themselves to themselves. I do have a bit of gossip though which I shall furnish you with now…

Saffa has been receiving flowers this week at an alarming rate. Her desk looks as though a florist has exploded all over it. She’s also received 2 vases to put said flowers in. I have enquired about all these gifts and apparently her good wife brought her ‘flowers for a year’ for Crimbo. So every week she gets a bunch of flowers. How sweet. When we all arrived on Friday last week there was a bunch waiting for her including a vase which she got very excited about as she actually has something to put all these bunches in. The flowers were white roses, her favourite.

At lunch time another bunch of white roses arrives so we speculate that maybe because it’s Valentine’s Day on Sunday she’s got an extra bunch? Makes sense, romantic time of year, that additional gift of lurve. Kirstie being the nosy cow she is (and I love her for it or otherwise where would I get all this information?) wanders over and says “you should take these home for the weekend or they’ll be wasted sat here”. Saffa goes a bit quiet and holding the new bunch in her hand says “hmmmm, I don’t think it would be a good idea if I took these ones home”. Kirstie just raises an eyebrow and doesn’t enquire any further (damnit Kirstie enquire further!). After a brief conflab with Kirstie she assures me that by the look on Saffa’s face the 2nd bunch is not from her wife. Uh oh, is she playing away from home again? Does she not learn?!

Then today another bunch turns up also with a vase. So 2 vases sent from the wife within a week of each other? Methinks not. Time for another conflab. Suspicion arises again as her normal flower delivery happens on a Friday so if she gets a 4th bunch tomorrow we’re pretty sure she’s getting these from more than one source. I’ll keep you posted. We are also wondering if there’s any other tell tale signs that Saffa has an admirer or maybe they are not just admiring from afar? Stir it up Kirstie!

In other news FB is not in today which has made the office all the more pleasant. CJ is off sick again and has been the whole week now and Kirstie and I have calculated that since she started in December she has probably been at work for about 55% of that time. Not that I’m complaining, please do stay away with your nasty germs, but how much time can one person possibly take off before they start having a word? Obviously she doesn’t feel the need to impress by turning up for work on time/at all. This will no doubt result in more sighing when she returns as she’ll have 5 times as much work to do and catch up on. I’ll look forward to that.