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Cathy was back at work today so I hung around at the end of the shift while, first, she completed an overrunning interview. While I was waiting I scanned the swap board and noticed that Lynda wanted to swap out of Saturday 7 October for any 4 hour shift. Sensing the chance to save using a holiday (and net a much-needed extra £24 or so), I spotted Lynda was by the cupboards packing away her shift box, and I went over to tell her I could swap her Friday 20 October. She agreed, so I loped over to Paul at the interviewer enquiry point.

"Err...Paul, you're going to love me..." In the end, he was perfectly pleasant about cancelling my holiday form for the second time - I didn't have to write out a cancellation this time, he said "Just write 'CANCELLED' across the application form." Then I made sure I completed the shift swap form straight away.

When Cathy finished her interview she saw me and asked whether I wanted a lift home, but at that moment Heather came up and collared her to do an immediate assessment of it, so I had to hang around for that to finish. Never mind, we still got away at 2.45, 55 minutes earlier than I'd have caught the bus, plus I was saved trekking through the woods to get to the temporary bus stop :)

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Spent the whole late afternoon and evening in front of the telly. First the athletics : massive congrats to Becky Lyne on her magnificent bronze in the 800m. A star is born! Then Dragons' Den - I thought I was going to miss Rachel Elnaugh badly, but I really like her replacement, Deborah Meaden. The woman who turned down Deborah's offer to invest in her picnic bag because she didn't want to give her control of her company was bloody mad. After that it was comedy time, with the classic Ben Stiller episode of Extras and a not so good Supernova, and over to BB to round off the night.