TGIF 2

Kirklees Council is in the doo again, this time over a job advert for a new director of organisation development, the job description includes: “The ideal candidate must have "cross-functional experience" and play a "key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers", the Kirklees Council advert states.

It continues: "The new director of organisation development will face a number of challenges, including making sure: That the diversity of Kirklees is understood by all in the organisation; is valued as a strength but a strength that challenges us to respond to its complex implications; and is reflected in the career structures within the organisation."


Unlike the advert.








Sorry Ladies but it appears that once you reach the age of 30 you are doomed: “Researchers discovered women feel most confident and happy with their love life and body shape shortly before they reach 30.


It is also the period in their life when they enjoy the best sex – but the happiness is relatively shortlived.


Because by the time they have turned 30 they start worrying about growing old and developing grey hair and wrinkles.”


A spokesman for home hair colour brand Clairol Perfect 10, which carried out the study of 4,000 women, said: "Everything in life hits its peak at some point, and nearly reaching your thirties isn't so bad now.


The survey of 25-65 year olds recorded the age at which women were most content in 12 key areas of their life.


According to the results, women are happiest in their career at 29 and most content with their relationships one year later at 30, despite having the best sex at 28.


But all is not lost for the over 30s, as women feel most content with their financial situation at 33 and at ease with their home and family life at 32.


The research found two thirds of women feel they age more quickly than men, and the women polled rated their appearance a measly five out of 10.


It also emerged that 56 per cent of women worry about losing their looks as they get older
But drinking from the fountain of youth doesn't come cheap as the average woman will spend £600 every year, or more than £49 a month, on beauty products in a bid to stay looking young.
The research also found women spend over five days a year on their beauty routine – an average of 22 minutes every day.


Psychologist Corinne Sweet added: "Having a good hair day is essential to success both at work and in love, as many women still feel their hair is their crowning glory.





I have no comment, I value my dangly bits too much!







Still you could always take up metal detecting and find treasure:- A housewife has discovered a 15th-century gold treasure valued at £250,000 with a metal detector.

Mrs Hannaby, 57, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, made the discovery while out on one of her regular six-hour Sunday detecting walks with her son Michael, a 33 year-old wood carver.
The treasure had been buried four inches below the ground for around 500 years - despite repeated ploughing and previous attempts by the Hannabys to unearth treasure on the same patch of arable field between Ashridge and Great Gaddesden.


"You get a buzz every time you get a signal, but chances are it won't be anything," said Mrs Hannaby, a former pub kitchen worker.


"This time, it popped up all of a sudden," said her son. "You can literally miss things by inches. We couldn't believe it. We always dreamed of finding treasure."


Under the Treasure Act of 1996, finders must report potential treasure such as gold and silver objects more than 300 years old. Finders are offered the market value for their discoveries which museums have first option to buy.


As one of only three of its kind to have survived, the find could be worth even more than £250,000, and its engraving is being compared to that of the Middleham Jewel, which sold at auction for £1.3million in 1986 and was later resold to the Yorkshire Museum for £2.5million.


Sotheby's will auction it in London on July 9.





Then you could afford all that “fountain of youth stuff”.









The mystery of crop circles is exposed it’s all down to stoned Wallabies:- Wallabies are getting "as high as a kite" on opium in Australian poppy fields and flattening crops as they hop round in circles, according to a report.

The marsupials, have been getting into medical opium crops in the southern island state of Tasmania and chewing on the plant's intoxicating heads, state officials said.
"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," state attorney-general Lara Giddings told a parliamentary estimates hearing.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high," local media reported Ms Giddings as saying.

Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally-grown opium for the pharmaceutical market, with about 500 farms supplying approximately 50 percent of the raw material for morphine and other opiate drugs.

That explains a lot.


And finally:

Live alligator found in bag on train in Norway The 75-centimetre (29.5-inch) caiman reptile, which is on the list of endangered species, was found during a routine baggage control on Sunday on a train travelling from the Swedish city of Gothenburg to Oslo, Norwegian customs inspector Wenche Fredriksen told AFP.

"It was in a ventilation tube inside a bag," she said.
The reptile's owner, a 22-year-old man, said he bought the "pet" in Poland where he was a student and wanted to bring it home to Norway.

The caiman was turned over to veterinary authorities who were to decide its fate.

Maybe he just wanted to make a new suitcase.



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