Back to reality

It was back to work yesterday after a weekend of recovering from the holiday. We went to Perth on Saturday afternoon to see the Jags in their big match - they got a 1-1 draw, which wasn't a complete disaster but wasn't really what they needed either.

It was nice to play golf again on Sunday morning, but I was pretty rusty - hope it gets better soon. And then yesterday it was hard to get my enthusiasm going at work, what with all the difficulties we are going through just now. Today was Fraserburgh which is really pretty depressing - we've got the Union to face again next week, but at least the actual number of redundancies is dwindling - a chunk have left already and we've managed to find jobs in Nor-Sea for more than 20 of those who are having to leave IFC, so we're down to almost a handful that we'll have to make redundant - and at least some, if not all, of them will be volunteers.

Worse was to follow when I got home tonight, however - Ross has been laid off by Bancon - he's on "garden leave" now. He's talking of doing his RGIT offshore course and looking for work in the oil business.