*frowns faintly, unable quite to hide how irritating she finds your half-sentences and half-questions* *rallies, however, her features slipping into a more circumspect expression* Oh. Well. *reaches across to pat your hand (you seem to respond to a more tactile approach)* I don't like to bring it up in company. (*glances over at Ecthelion*) But I suppose we are all family here. (*and how that galls her, on so many levels, to say that out loud*)
I got laid off a week ago. Well, I took voluntary redundancy. I'm a good bit older than some of the girls working there, and they have families, and I have something of a nest egg laid away, so I shan't starve any time soon. As our manager said, there probably will be work again in the summer.