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MM Links October 2009 [Week 3]
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Good morning again from Christiana, the Cheerful One. It’s Week 3 of my reign and I’m hoping I’ve got you all smiling, if not over the choice of link words, then at least at the more unusual aspects of my life.
Looking back it’s so easy to see what might have been, isn’t it? My parents really wanted me to go to university, but, knowing no better, I thought that just meant more school. So after ‘O’ levels, armed with basic shorthand and typing skills, off I trotted into the grown-up world of office work, which turned out not to be so grown-up after all. I soon became bored with office feuds and took a job with Strakers, the stationers as a trainee representative.
Looking back it’s so easy to see what might have been, isn’t it? My parents really wanted me to go to university, but, knowing no better, I thought that just meant more school. So after ‘O’ levels, armed with basic shorthand and typing skills, off I trotted into the grown-up world of office work, which turned out not to be so grown-up after all. I soon became bored with office feuds and took a job with Strakers, the stationers as a trainee representative.
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Do you remember Green Shield stamps? My next move was to establish a similar set-up but without the gift shops. My territory was North and East London one week and South and West London the next. Not only did I have to sell the books of stamps to various shopkeepers, but also to deliver the gifts to the shops I’d taken the orders from. So at only 17 years old, I had the use of an estate car – wonderful! Each day it was loaded to the gills with gifts and it was a common occurrence for items such as ironing boards to pitch forward and land on my head whenever I stopped suddenly. At first, I would arrive home exhausted from driving around London, to my mother’s considerable anxiety. When I look back at the naïve slip of a girl I was then, it seems miraculous that I escaped unscathed.
Eventually, I secured a job at an employment agency in Kensington. I loved it! The work was so varied. One of my jobs was to test the shorthand and typing skills of those applying for ‘temping’ work. Some of the older secretaries really resented some young woman putting them through their paces, but experience taught me that the protests were loudest from those whose skills were the least. Finally, I became the manageress, only leaving after I had married and was expecting my first child – but that’s another story.
Eventually, I secured a job at an employment agency in Kensington. I loved it! The work was so varied. One of my jobs was to test the shorthand and typing skills of those applying for ‘temping’ work. Some of the older secretaries really resented some young woman putting them through their paces, but experience taught me that the protests were loudest from those whose skills were the least. Finally, I became the manageress, only leaving after I had married and was expecting my first child – but that’s another story.
Getting down to the business in hand, I shall follow the rules relating the word length as introduced by crofter. Each of my chosen link words contains at least four letters and at most eight. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one or more of your attempts! Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when my selected words will be declared, and points awarded in the usual manner. My third set of words to be linked should appear below at 9.00am.
