1. The sun is shining and it is warm. The mountains surrounding the house are clear and dominant. The young man and I have been playing Frisby in the garden. Ambling in the warmth seems an experience of long ago. Shame about the roar of the traffic in the background.
2. Five minutes peace whilst he sleeps before we begin again. The kindergarten staff were pleased to see me and urged me to come in again. I shall be there on Monday. My senses tell me that rest will not be an option over the coming few days. Karstein returns on Wednesday.
3. Kaaren is taking her team to the Hippo Lake today for some bonding and treating after the eruptions of the past few weeks.
4. We managed about, well I did, 15 minutes on the walking machine and cross trainer last night. I will start on the walking machine first next time, walking after 12 minutes on the cross trainers did not suit the back.
5. And the old and the young. The old testing the young, because the young are forever testing the old. The old proving that they know more because of their longevity and experience. The young believe the world belongs to them, but the old know that is not the case. Love hides reason. Passion takes over.
6. We are off to the coast tomorrow to Budva about an hour away. The hotel has a pool so there will be an opportunity for a swim, though we shall have to take it in turns.
7. I remarked on the general good quality of the cars, which does not give an air of poverty. Cars, however, are a status symbol and the folk rack up huge debts to have a car. Companies acting as guarantors for loans is common practice here. Kaaren's company have put a limit on 50% of the loan as some people had hardly any salary at the end of a month.
Not much else to report.
Lady of the Black Mountains
1 comment:
1 Ah,testing. The young and the old. The former test the latter as the former grow; the latter test the former as the former grow. Testing, testing. There's a lot of it about.
2 And bonding. Forming a team; forming a team, that is, that people will want to join. The collective output is expected to be more than the sum of the individual outputs. All good stuff. I wonder what Kaaren has in mind. Let me know. And I wonder what is in the heads of the people with whom she wishes to bond.
3 David and I talked earlier on about the relationship, the relevance of western ideas about management to enterprises in states in the Arabian Gulf. There are special features of the employment contract, formal and informal, which bear on the relevance. Kuwait nationals cannot be sacked. There are too many managers. Humping and dumping is left to expatriate labour, particularly Banglideshi and Pakistani staff.
4 So I wonder if local staff can be sacked in the Black Hills. I wonder if there is an expectation of a local worker being appointed to a managerial post in the next six months, year, two years. Or, if there is a local manager, I wonder how that manager is getting on, compared to other local managers and to expatriate managers. It's all in the head, you know.
5 And now for something different. I advertised the Escort on Auto Trader earlier this evening. A prospective buyer is coming to view it at 0830 tomorrow morning. It has had an exterior wash. However, I must also clean the interior. So I may be cleaning at 0700 tomorrow.
Wish me luck.
Keep writing (as well as cycling indoors and swimming and all else).
Stayathome
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