Slippery slope this blogging business - two posts in two days!
I, on the other hand, have NOT been doing my Summer story (nor finishing off the last few bits on the next Alec installment) due to various work-related crises. Last week we had a 6 week old baby go missing (now back safely - and now in care - but not before some of the team grew a few more grey hairs - it's the kind of case that hits the front pages of the Daily Mail if it goes wrong. This week we had another emergency Court application when a family broke the conditions the Court set for the child being placed back in their care. And a case that ought to have finished this week didn't because noone could agree about the child not having ongoing contact with the violent father (deep sigh for the vagaries of our Court system - means we have another piece of work to do to try out another stop-gap measure and have that fail before we can go back to Court with the evidence there is no other option but to make sure this child doesn't see her father who believes 45 DV incidents in one year is 'not a problem'). And I've been put on notice to go to Court tomorrow about a private law report I wrote just before I went on leave. That will make it three days in Court this week....
Woe is me! Debbie (my Asst Team Manager) goes on leave next week for three weeks! The job is unmanageable without her, so early September is going to be just dreadful.
Legal say they're glad to have me back though. Apparently in my absence they were getting some very weird instructions from Paul (my manager - who may be senior to me but has never done care proceedings in his entire career) and had to give him instructions about what to do or not do, and refuse to implement his instructions, because they were dangerous practice and would leave the dept liable. (Legal are supposed to give advice but take instructions, so you an see the difficulty they were in).
So Alec remains sitting under a tree with the last of those letters unread....
And Theseus' summer clothes have not yet been embroidered....
I may do another ITOW story to add to the Summer prompt series. We'll see how the weekend inspires me. Then you can play around with more pretty backgrounds.
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I, on the other hand, have NOT been doing my Summer story (nor finishing off the last few bits on the next Alec installment) due to various work-related crises. Last week we had a 6 week old baby go missing (now back safely - and now in care - but not before some of the team grew a few more grey hairs - it's the kind of case that hits the front pages of the Daily Mail if it goes wrong. This week we had another emergency Court application when a family broke the conditions the Court set for the child being placed back in their care. And a case that ought to have finished this week didn't because noone could agree about the child not having ongoing contact with the violent father (deep sigh for the vagaries of our Court system - means we have another piece of work to do to try out another stop-gap measure and have that fail before we can go back to Court with the evidence there is no other option but to make sure this child doesn't see her father who believes 45 DV incidents in one year is 'not a problem'). And I've been put on notice to go to Court tomorrow about a private law report I wrote just before I went on leave. That will make it three days in Court this week....
Woe is me! Debbie (my Asst Team Manager) goes on leave next week for three weeks! The job is unmanageable without her, so early September is going to be just dreadful.
Legal say they're glad to have me back though. Apparently in my absence they were getting some very weird instructions from Paul (my manager - who may be senior to me but has never done care proceedings in his entire career) and had to give him instructions about what to do or not do, and refuse to implement his instructions, because they were dangerous practice and would leave the dept liable. (Legal are supposed to give advice but take instructions, so you an see the difficulty they were in).
So Alec remains sitting under a tree with the last of those letters unread....
And Theseus' summer clothes have not yet been embroidered....
I may do another ITOW story to add to the Summer prompt series. We'll see how the weekend inspires me. Then you can play around with more pretty backgrounds.