Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?

A lot has happened since the last post which has made for an exciting change of pace, lifestyle-wise!  You may recall from my last post that I managed to secure a job as a marketing exec at a very upmarket wine and spirit merchant.  Vair vair exciting.  Since the interview I have had 2 weeks of rigorous physical and mental preparation so I could arrive in tip top shape.  If this blog was a film, those 2 weeks would be a montage, like the one in Rocky, culminating in me running up the stairs of Bromley library all sweaty and end with a cheesy, Murder She Wrote-style freeze-frame of me with a book on marketing and an Angela Lansbury grin.  Eye of the tiger!

So it was a bit of a whirlwind 2 weeks but in that time I managed to get a house share sorted and move from London to Basingstoke.  I started my job last Monday and I can't believe I've been there almost two weeks, although I did have a jammy bank holiday weekend this week!  As is normal when you start a new job, I hardly know anything and have massive brain overload when people try and explain something that will probably, in a few months, be second nature!  So at the moment I'm stumbling my way through proofing, learning about wine and even writing emails and my pronunciation of French wines is nothing short of comedy.

Classy.

At the moment, it feels like it's going to be the best job ever, in my first week I got a free bottle of gin and did a wine tasting on my break.  In reality I will more than likely die of a hideous liver disease in a puddle of my own wine-vom.  I'd say my job is as dangerous if not more so than your average police officer.  

Coming up in the near future: This weekend I'm revisiting Canterbury for the Summer Ball, Florence and the Machine are playing so that should be good.  On Monday I have managed to blag a ticket to a nobby wine club dinner at the oldest wine cellars in London and Wednesday I'm back to the same cellars for general hob-nobbery. 

I will leave you with this thought: How weird is the phrase "much of a muchness"?!

Tutty bye,

Luce x