I made an observation to some people the other day that casual dress down Friday leads to casual attitudes to work. I have recently mentioned that some of the people in my new office, who are part of a single team dress down on a Friday and have breakfast at work. Today I spent all day in the office, smartly dressed as it happens and I was able to observe this behaviour (well from behind my back since that is where they sit). not a scientific survey, but actually true. A specific group did very little work having spent a good hour looking through a box of books, a further period of time discussing the snacks they would like with their afternoon tea and a further period of time surfing the showbiz internet and discussing it. I am not being critical here, just passing an observation. Plus there is some jealousy; after all I can’t ruin my weightloss of 2lb this week (20.5lb in total) by eating a sausage and egg sandwich, anyway I had already eaten my porridge. Secondly my team member who sits opposite me is off sick, so I had no one to chat to, though of course this in turn meant I got lots of work done. Anyway, I surfed the internet a little myself over my rice salad with tuna lunch.

Now though it is the weekend, and folks I am going away for that weekend. Tomorrow hubby and I are off to a hotel in Kent for a dinner dance and on Sunday we are off to celebrate my godmother’s 70th birthday in Dorset. So there you have it, despite not dressing casually, not eating breakfast baps or doughnuts I still have that Friday feeling!

What is more, Change of Shift is up at Crzegrl.net. For her Murphy’s Law has been the problem. While I am away relaxing, wining, dining and probably breaking my diet you can be doing the sensible thing and reading the great posts over there!

Update – change of shift is now available as a video blog, now how great is that? I am hosting on May 1 and I am not sure how I can even come close, after all there are no helicopters at my place of work!

For those who don’t know, the picture above is a crunchie bar, a rather sickly but not unpleasant chocolate with a honeycombe centre. At one time there was an advert which played on the fact that Crunchie gives you a Friday feeling. The punchline was: Thank Crunchie it’s Friday! This blog is turning into public service broadcasting!