JO'S GONE TO ICELAND

I haven’t worked for over a week despite calling the recruitment agencies begging for freelance every other day. Most of them are “on the other line” every time I call. In fact there’s only one that has the decency to actually take my calls. She's a major player in the business.

I watched the news. Apparently we’re not officially in a recession yet, but Flash Gordon is going to reduce VAT from 17.5% to 15%. That means a medium salad from Sainsbury’s salad bar will be £1.94 instead of £1.99.
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Crack open the champers.
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To celebrate the news, I decided to make like Kerry Katona and head to my nearest Iceland. There’s one round the corner from my house. I’ve been there before to buy milk and frozen peas. I decided that since I don’t know when I’ll next work, and I didn’t receive any redundancy pay (wasn’t entitled), I’d better tighten my belt and stock up on prawn rings and the like.

I was very pleasantly surprised. I bought 6 bottles of water, a packet of super noodles, two salmon fillets, a bag of frozen peas and some cottage cheese and it came to a fiver. Five quid and not a frozen pork faggot in sight.

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