Mon, Apr 19th

Today started strangely. My boss, who has been fed up with the situation at work for months, came in full of beans and optimism. However, as expected, by the end of the day events had unfolded to take the wind out of his sails. Needless to say, I am counting the days down until the weekend and 10 days away from the office.

We also saw how the volcanic ash that had grounded thousands of planes over Europe since last Thursday affected some of our employees. We have one girl in Australia who was due back today stranded on the other side of the world. Her first flight home is expected on May 2nd. My boss is due to fly to Spain on Wednesday for a week (now unlikely) and our receptionist is still stuck in Greece and unlikely to be in on Wednesday.