I just wanted to wish you a “Merry Kweenuz!“, as Baldrick said in Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.
That’s it really – just an expressed hope you find time and space to enjoy the week ahead – switch off from whatever you normally have to do and enjoy doing whatever it is you’d prefer to do instead, with whoever you prefer to spend your time.
And if you are working over the Kweenuz period in our armed forces, emergency services or the NHS – or if you’re an AMHP (these poor folks are always left out when we list groups of people!) – then please accept my gratitude for keeping us all safe and try to find some time within or afterwards to be you.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO!
I used to love taking off the first-full week of January once the New Year carnage was complete – it meant I was relaxing just as people had to start going back to school and work! A little bit of schadenfreude, if I’m honest but it did help, even if just a little, for having to work a 24/7 shift pattern over Christmas and / or New Year when demand was higher and resourcing lower than normal.
Thank you for following the blog – I’m always gratified to learn it’s still being used by operational professionals to solve problems and hoping it still contributes to the debate about how to solve whatever problem you’re trying to fix.
May you be blessed with scented candles, socks or Lynx Africa gift packs from your relatives who neither know nor care you’d never use them, sufficient to supply your charity raffle donations for the full year ahead – Merry Kweenuz!
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