well this is not a tip exactly but just something that happened. I had an at home break while Jane was wee and decided I needed to get back to work. So I went into my local Woolies in Hawick and asked if they'd any jobs and went off clutching an application form. Tip no. 1: if they ask what would your ideal job be perhaps its better not to put "taster for Terry's of York". However I got an interview and all was progressing fairly well with the assistant manager when the Boss came in. Just thought he'd pop in and he'd noticed that I came from Ayr and went to the Catholic Secondary there. Oh says he you did Maths,did you ever get a female maths teacher.....well there was a Miss Davey but I was never in her class but I got her for RE and went on to say she had a glass eye and we used to sit and try and work out what on it was. The right one,says he,shes my sister. Open mouth,insert foot. I never made the connection as I pronounced his name the Ayrshire way and in Hawick its pronounced differently. I got the job.