Your evening of swing has been cancelled

Seth's just back after a few days off. He'd been rather hoping that the pile of boxes in the fire escape corridor might have been cleared. Sadly not: the Acq. Team were struggling to cope with a sudden panic-buy of stock ready for the re-opening of Epiphany Library (scheduled some time before the sun goes out); the remnant part-orders from the end-of-financial-year muck-up; and four thousand Book Off paperbacks to be received and invoiced by the end of this week. Then forty-three boxes of books turned up for the Book Up initiative.

It's difficult to know who's the more thrilled:

• Seth, because it's yet more stuff to have to lug about out of the fire exit corridor;
• Betty and Noreen, because it's a pile more work that doesn't count towards their performance targets; or
• Frog, because he'd been rather hoping that this initative might go away until he'd sorted out the other national initiatives that have to be delivered this month.

Needless to say, there's a lot of bad-tempered folk about here today.