More driving on M4 this last few days. Another late afternooon trip to Chepstow to our radio suppliers today. Over to Bristol yesterday to meet the medical team caring for Amanda in Southmead hospital. It was also an occasion to celebrate James' eighteenth birthday with her, as it fell on Wednesday this week. Clare brought a cake to share with eighteen golden candles on it, but we weren't allowed to light them in Amanda's room for him to blow out. The sensitivity of the smoke alarm over the bed would have triggered a Health and Safety crisis.
Owain came and joined us at the hospital. He'd come over for a job interview. Clare arrived by train at Filton Abbey Wood, the nearest station and Owain met her there so I could pick up both and ferry them to the hospital. When I arrived, Owain was on his phone, grinning from ear to ear. He'd just received the first job offer he couldn't refuse in nine months of unemployment!
In that period, he applied for scores of jobs and on average got two interviews a month, many of them second interviews. An endless succession of disappointments, but also a learning experience through which he developed his interview skills and just as importantly his discipline of applying himself to consider each new project that's been at the heart of the job applied for. He'll be working for a law firm, and that's something of a surprise for him, with all sorts of interesting new discoveries ahead of him.
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