End of week 1

Hi everyone, I ws going to write every day, but things are too hectic, so I am going to write every week instead. So here goes; Week 1;
Monday up at 5:30. Today was a challange feeling ok though - 2 driving staff members on holiday, one from cleaning and one from gardening. Thankfully most of the staff have now had their holidays - not looking forward to my co director having her holiday, but I'll manage. Got to bed about 11pm. Appraisal given to one of the staff, it went very well. Staff member feels valued. Tuesday was a bit mad, wished the cleaner that drives wasn't on holiday begining to feel the pressure, of trying to run a business and drive the girls about, but I have my Homeopath pills to take so I should be fine. Staff member who had the Appraisal is happier today, more positive? Peninsula came for our check up. We passed, doing all we should. See him in another 9 months. Another late night. Got to bed about 12pm Wednesday up at 5:30 to go to BNI. Covered for two jobs, good opportunity to see if the staff are looking after the contracts. Customers seem happy - so all is well. All these early mornings and late nights are getting to me, feeling tired today. Thursday - up at 6am have an End of Tenancy clean to do today. only three of us available. Hate working in the business, need to be working on the business. Not able to phone who I want to cause always bloody driving!!! Important client wants carpets cleaned on Friday and our main cleaner is on holiday. Will have to re-organise the jobs for Friday. Still need to go through the tender docs, Trying not to get stressed about it. It's not easy to get part-time staff, they want regular hours. Clean went ok, need to do carpets tomorrow to complete job. Went to bed at 11:30pm Friday - Hooray, a lay in til 7am - dropped cleaner off. Bloody carpet machine has decided to play up, spent 2 hours trying to get the thing to work! Wouldn't mind, but it is serviced twice a year. Finished late because of the carpet cleaner. Chatted to a guy over the phone this evening about working as and when, seems promising. New guy who started two weeks ago still hasn't sorted out his driving liscense. What do I do, catch 22 situation - good worker, reliable but can't drive the vans. Such a pain. Hopefully new guy starting on Monday who does drive. Need to think about a light-weight staff member, can't afford to carry anyone in this economic climate. Had two chances already - need to have that appraisal, see where we go from here. Late night again. oh well. Saturday up at 6am, need to go cut some willow for our willow project we are doing for a primary school, grand opening on Tuesday, so must be finished today - the lady where we store our equipment has decided that she doesn't want us in her garage after all! Now have to find some more storage that is close by - not easy to do. Good news though, a girl I was talking to about tender docs has sent me an email to say that Croydon Council are offering 4 hours of free consultation on how to put together tender docs, how cool is that! All booked for next Friday. Going to spend the week-end reading the tender docs. No I'm not, I now have 4 cleaing jobs to do, cause the gardening run over time due to the extra carpet cleaning and they have to finish it Saturday. Lightweight not got enought oomph according to my guy. Now I need to cover the cleaning. There goes Sunday!
See you all next week.