{"id":646,"date":"2009-06-17T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2014-05-11T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:43:03","slug":"hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got confirmation last week that I have been offered a contract to work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battersea.org.uk\">here<\/a>. This is one of the most famous animal welfare organisations in the city, if not the country! I am both scared and excited to work with four legged friends and leave behind the shallow world of television far behind me. I will have to wear office appropriate clothes! I will finish work at 5pm! I will get a subsidised lunch allowance! I&#8217;m not sure I even understand what that means, but its new and I like it. I will not want to cry every time I have to work late because at the end of the day its all for a greater good and not because some pompous industry head did not like the lighting\/coffee\/cocktail\/flowers\/stationery or whatever silly thing that used to make me trudge home at 9pm on a Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, a friend and I took a train to Whitstable an hour and half outside the city. It was a nice little seaside town with beautiful houses by the sea and colourful beach huts. We took a walk along the shore and I walked past the Yacht Club. It was mostly full of retired folk and not feral dogs and children like Serasa. It was quite a picturesque place and I dont think it&#8217;s massively touristy as there was a huge lack of tacky gift shops in the high street and we seemed to be the only non locals around. I had to rely on my phone to take any pictures that day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.jpg 360w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have LOVED every day of my work &#8220;hiatus&#8221;.\u00a0 I have seen more of my family and friends in these past weeks than I have for the whole of last year. I have taken day trips to the seaside, attended a cake conference and workshop, gotten to know my neighbours, read dozens of books, sunbathed in my own garden, fixed up the flat, painted the kitchen. I started to live my life instead of letting others dictate it. I&#8217;m back to work on the 29th, but in the mean time I will put my feet up with this little guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3.jpg 360w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got confirmation last week that I have been offered a contract to work here. This is one of the most famous animal welfare organisations in the city, if not the country! 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