Got my ‘official’ letter giving the starting day of my ‘Work Experience Provision’ course today. Next Monday it is.
It says: ‘We would be grateful if you could arrive ten minutes early, due to the popularity of this training opportunity, we cannot guarantee your place if you arrive late.’ Notwithstanding the lousy punctuation (there should be a period after ‘early’), the idea of a course which is mandatory—if you’ve been unemployed for 18 months, you get shoved on this or lose your benefit—being ‘popular’ is absolutely hysterical.
This is ‘popular’ in the same way that National Service was ‘popular.’ I wouldn’t be surprised if Blair tried to bring that back, too. There’s really no end to the corruption and lies.
Yesterday was indeed the peak of the hot weather. An absolute killer. Today is still very hot, but not quite as bad. Roll on Autumn.
As usual, I hope to have something more interesting to say next time!