I have to say it’s never dull here, in case you don’t know, I work for a control room, we basically monitor those pesky cords people have with the little orange triangle at the bottom, we’re the people you get through to when you pull one.

I do enjoy my job, even through sometimes the shifts are a bugger, but you get used to that pretty quickly and you have to kinda arrange your life around them, but I do get some free time.  I’ve heard things you could never make up but some people manage to get themselves into such tricky situations that you have deal with efficiently and quickly; snap decisions are something we do very well.

I remember my first shift here, it was a night shift, starting at 9.30pm until 6.30am – I really didn’t know what to expect.  I was so naive back then.

I really should write a book, the triffid woman sticks in my head and I’ll tell you the full story soon.