Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "unpaid"

Finally it's the weekend again. This week has seen some long days at work. I had to work on to look after the retort. On Wednesday and Thursday that meant almost three hours unpaid overtime. I'll get the hours back though that might be harder than it sounds. Today wasn't as bad only an hour roughly more onto the day but it is good to finally see this week out. The reason for all the extra work is because the main boiler is being repaired so we are working off of the smaller back up boiler. Unfortunately that is not really up to the job. It can take about an hour to get the retorts up to full pressure where it usually only take about twenty minutes at most normally. As you can tell that will add a lot of time to the process over the full day. Jim the other retort operator worked on last week and at the start of this week so it was about time I took a turn and things look set for more next week for both of us as it might be the end of the week before the work is complete. It wouldn't be so bad if it were a little cooler or at least a breath of air, sadly no.
I still haven't had a chance to try Magz's jam though I'm sure to get some on toast this weekend which I'm really looking forwards to. I will also be out into the garden to feed my plants and see how they are doing. I haven't had much time for the garden during the week though I'm sure the rain we had has helped my plants. I did notice last week that my peas are growing pods. I was tempted to pick some for Sunday dinner but left them for the peas later on. It was good to see how well everything is doing. There should also be some time for a bit of Skyrim, hehehe.