Oh this evening, I had a wonderful surprise, Emily sent me a message, to ask if she could come back. Apparently her new job was so awful (she started today) that she gave in her notice immediately. She'll tell me all about it on Tuesday when she comes to clean!!!

Now I know Emily and she has the patience of a saint and can cope with almost anything, so it must have been really bad for her to say that she was leaving straight away. So really it's their hard luck and my good luck.



The two who came to take over the job of cleaning for me were very nice, but it was more expensive and they only stayed 3/4 hour as it was the same as one hour and a half, but with two of them!!! They charged more than Emily too. They were lovely people and were willing to do anything I needed, but it's not the same as having someone who can virtually read your mind and knows exactly how you "tick". I realised that Emily had been here almost 4 years, so I've given her a rise - boy is she worth it!!!!

So it has been a lovely day, even though I watched the Queen's body being taken from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey. She will lie in state until her funeral on Monday and people can file past her coffin to pay their respects. There are thousands of people already queueing up to see her. If I lived nearer and could stand for a long time, I'd go there. So I'll just have to watch it from my home and say my own "Bye Ma'am and thank you".