Not Seriously Ministering

I'm a little exasperated with Hnaef. And the People Who've Retired Group are feeling quite let down.

I texted Hnaef yesterday to say that Charlii wouldn't be able to take the "PoWeR" Group (we call them that because it sounds quite dynamic, and it's better than the old name "Free Labour Source"). Charlii was due to take their Tea-Time Talk, but was unable to make it due to being in extensive therapy after her marathon stint as a squirrel during the Holiday Club season. The allergy to fake fur's not helped either, to be honest. But Hnaef turned up ten minutes late looking exhausted for the 5 o'clock meeting. And just claiming "I had a meeting in York" is hardly an excuse. The PoWeR group was most disappointed - after all, some of them had their tea to make.

After all the trouble we went to, to find him a new job title. He got all humpty about NSM - or "Not Supplying Much" because he said it had negative connotations and you can't be defined by a negative. So we changed it to SSM ("Some Support Maybe?") but there's no evidence that's made him work any harder.

He's over there now, doing the presentation he'd planned to do on the train yesterday. His office light was on when I went to bed last night as well. I asked him why he couldn't have been getting on with it during the evening, and he muttered something about "children". And he talks about that presentation like it was my fault. When I went to all the trouble and expense of phoning him to advise driving a hire car down yesterday afternoon to make the meeting. I went round just now to suggest he got himself a cup of coffee - and that he needed to get a better work-life balance, but he just looked at me in a kind of bleary way and then went back to his PC.