Another beautiful day - but why do I hate any sunny day?

The problem is my neighbour. His family believe that a garden should be a recreation centre - any my neighbour use to be respectable until he moved in just over a year ago. And what a long year this has turned out to be.

First there was the golf course! Well one hole with a huge red flag in it. Astro turf leads up to the hole - why is anybody's guess. Next came the stones. Any available space there were stones - perhaps as he is a policeman he no doubt gets stones thrown at him. That was followed by his son playing tennis against his double-glazed windows. It use to be my fence until I profusely complained.

This weekend it was one of those really large adult paddling pools. Bearing in mind there is no grass in the garden. I'm dreading the pool parties his kids will have especially when he is away. Last year his daughter must have advertised a party on the internet because turned out to be more of a rave than a party. It went on till I left for work at 530 a.m. yes that was a.m..

My guess is that the neighbours thought someone else would ring the police. I was in great shape for work!

Why do people have to be so inconsiderate? All I want is a nice quiet life. The forecast of a hot summer fills me with dread. Is there any recourse? Probably not because he is a policeman, so who do you turn to?

I'm still running Sainsbury's

The episode last night featured a new recruit who had a successful career in sales and it showed. She definitely knew what she was talking about and her ideas were doable. From the trailers I thought it was going to be more agressive selling but what she in fact did was make Sainsbury's user friendly. So for me it worked. And I liked the idea!

No doubt they will be implementing this into our store. It will be interesting to see who the Store Manager chooses to be the sales person that is where the difference will occur. Because the way I see it you need someone who is approachable, confident, able to "personality" sell and a person who is keen to do a good job.

Yes, this is bringing back communication to the customer. It is also a good way of finding out what customers want.

I'm running Sainsbury's

U watched this programme with great interest! The idea seemed too good to be true . . . and it was. What it was, was a PR exercise to show how good Sainsbury's are. But are they?

Knowing what I do about how superstores like this are run, I found it strange that Head Office did not give this poor girl a hand like they would do for every other new product on the shelf i.e. vouchers, start the campaign at the weekend, offer tastings, even showing her how to sell. But then they wouldn't because it is not really in their interest to simply because they would stop the customer from buying more as they searched for the key things to make up their "Feed a Family for a Fiver".

I also thought the staff at Head Office were patronising to Becky.

So they got their PR but I personally don't think they got very good PR because it showed how ruthless they are especially when it comes to supporting staff and their ideas!

Who is the mug??

Ok, I am paid to do a job. The job is not brilliant but it pays money and that is what I am paid to do. However, my bone of contention is the fact that I have to work twice as hard because two people I work with spend all their time doing anything but work. Which I think is grossly unfair!

And the worst part is that you tell your manager who does nothing. You tell senior management who also does nothing - so who else is there?

Would you like to know what really gets my goat is when I am pulled into the office for stupid things like I took my tea break at the wrong time or I asked too many questions - but that is how you sell, by asking questions. So perhaps I am the mug by not milking the system like the women I work with do. Therefore, in future I will try to milk the system and do it better than them. At then, I won't feel like such a pratt!