Summer is over!!!

Well summer is over, not that we really had what I would call summer! We did have a warmish spell, but I was on nights, so trying to sleep. However, I have been on early shifts recently and there is that definite autumnal nip in in the air at six-thirty in the morning. I have more or less managed to finish the woodwork round the garage and porch. I sanded, treated and undercoated the long side, just got to do the gloss top coat now, but it keeps raining. Will hopefully try tomorrow.

At work we are preparing to be inundated by the overseas students who have to register with the police as part of their visa terms. They used to be called aliens (not the little green men type), but we are not allowed to call them that anymore!! When I first started last October, we were in the middle of registration hell, so it was one of the first things I learnt to do on my own, very quickly - needs musts. It does mean that basically all your spare shifts become middles (yuk!) to give extra help. Because of where we are, with the universities, colleges and schools, we always have registrations, plus all the updates to deal with, but the Autumn term is the busiest.

Well our big news is that hubby passed his driving test (for a bus), first time, which is better than the two guys he was training with, one passed on his second attempt the week before hubby and he heard the other failed again (second time) today. This has of course means hubby is feeling quite smug, though I did remind him that pride comes before a fall. He has now completed all the classroom based training, how to evacuate a bus on fire, what to do if you find a suspicious package - I would have thought RUN would have been the best option - though saying that, we have had two bomb scares at work since I started, and we evacuated neither times (such a pain getting all the prisoners out the cells!), and then how to be nice to the customers!!!! Anyway, he is now busy 'type training' (learning how to drive different shapes and sizes) and route learning. He also got all his uniform yesterday - corporate branding or what, let us just say there is no doubt who he works for!!!!

As the kids are now back at school, I went back to Brownies yesterday evening. Don't think I have mentioned it before, but I am a Brown Owl, I run a Brownies unit in Cookham with a friend. We meet every Wednesday night from 6pm to 7.15pm and we have twenty six girls aged between 7 and 10. We try to do various things with the girls through out the term, this term including craft, games, bowling and they are also doing their crime prevention badge (that'll be me getting loads of info from work then!).

I have been on rest days for the last two days, back to work tomorrow, but on nights. Should be three nights, but Sunday is a rest day in lieu because we have a training day on Monday - joy!! At least it might be slightly more exciting than the last two - how to fill in a TA1 (traffic accident form), safety training (but remember, you can't touch anyone, coz that would be assault) and gathering forensic evidence from sexual assault victims (no...............I'll get a police officer thank you very much!), as we are doing counter terrorism, fire arms and first aid. We have speculated that once we have shot each other and blown each other up, we will then make it all better!!! Shouldn't joke really, when the control room staff got their firearms training, the firearms officer managed to shot one of them - luckily no one was killed, though I believe the force had to make a rather large payout! And I should point out that our training will only involve looking at and talking about, not actually doing!!!