Day 65

Ahh, Friday, final day of the week.  I'm sure even the hounds know when it's Friday (not that I remind them or anything)!  An early finish as it's POETS day (Piss Off Early Tomorrows Saturday). Think I'd confused the hounds this week somewhat not being in the office yesterday though, they seemed like they didn't want me to leave.

Loads of things to catch up with from yesterday, it still beats me why people save things till you get back in the office rather than send an email.  Ended up doing some work for another manager as their admin would 'fuck it up' apparently as she doesn't know what she's doing!!  Why the hell do we employ these people, and why are they still in a job??  Beggars belief.  This meant I now had to work at break neck speed to get my reports etc done before finishing.  Today also signified the start of the orange wolves campaign where we are backing a UN campaign to support an end to violence against women & girls, so lots to do regarding our social media pages as photos of partner agencies supporting us came flooding in.  Posts prepped to publish over the weekend too as it is a 16 day campaign.

Home for hound snuggles & a shower before going out to the RGT Wolverhampton Annual Awards Evening, this years' venue the Cleveland Arms.  About 65 people turned up, a good turn out.  The awards took place at the start of the evening with several fellow volunteers receiving awards for various things.  The final award was Volunteer of the year, a fairly long speech regarding the recipient from Terry, couldn't hear much of what was being said as there was a rather loud disco going on in the other half of the pub.  I heard mention of the dog show (which I had organised this year), at this point virtually all eyes were looking at me.  OMG, no, it can't be me!!!  Yep, indeed it was me, what a shock, I can't explain how shocked I was to hear my name, lost for words as the mic was handed to me on the evening, I was even shaking.  I sat down & immediately thought I could have said this or said that, too late though, so had to settle for a Facebook post to do all my thank yous.  So now I have a large trophy to keep for a year and a small trophy to keep forever.  The final presentation was a bouquet of flowers presented to the manager, Alison as she is now retiring from the kennels & becoming a volunteer, so we will all still be able to work with her.  An amazing buffet followed & lots of chatter amongst all the volunteers as well as our now famous bottle raffle with over 50 prizes.