I really wonder sometimes what magical powers people think I possess – our mini bus driver came to see me today because the reception on his company mobile was crap. What did he expect me to do about it – wave a wand to sort 02 out?

I politely pointed out that the company mobiles were nothing to do with me – he should take it up with the Financial Controller, the wise one who decided to change over mobile providers from Orange. If I was being really bitchy now I’d also point out that I said at the time we'd had problems with 02’s reception in this area before.

We were with 02 originally and it caused no end of problems which is why we moved over to Orange. Did he listen? No of course not, according to FC the coverage would have improved since we were last with 02 – so he can bloody well find out the hard way which includes the earache of staff moaning.

And oh dear, it would appear that our driver had been trying to sort it out with Mr FC for over two weeks now and was getting rather pissed off with it all – and I thought I could moan. Still not my problem and if he wanted to complain to anyone he should take it up with FC’s Line Manager, who just happened to be the General Manager. Well he said, he’d come to me because I could be relied upon to sort things out – not any more I couldn’t. If it’s not my job, it’s not my problem and I’m having nothing to do with it.

To be fair our mini bus driver has a little bit of an abrupt manner and can rub people up the wrong way with very little effort on his part – so it’s not surprised me at all that nothing has been sorted, his attitude doesn’t do him any favours.

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O.K. I've just been asked another stupid question - Sue, what do we do with post? Sometimes you just have to bite your tongue.

This from someone who has worked for the company for the last 6 months and he still doesn't know that the receptionist deals with the post? He's a Team Leader and in all that time he's not sent any corresponence anywhere?

Why me? Is there a sign on my door that I can't see? Come inside and find the answers to absolutely everything you ever wanted to know. The meaning of life? No problem, come in and take a seat - I won't keep you long.

Yep, I’ve most definitely transformed into a grumpy old woman.

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Our Village also made the local news last night – the council has just spent thousands of pounds upgrading our bus shelters. Not your everyday, ordinary, run of the mill bus shelters for our village – oh, no, these ones have solar panels in the roof. The panels generate the energy to run the internal lighting; so ensuring that you aren’t stood in the dark. We’ve no street lighting at all around the village - welcome to the dark side.

It was a great idea too – it's bloody shame that the bus service doesn’t run after 6 at night.

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Our neighbours son shares the same birthday as me – so I had to go and look at his favourite present last night ~