Well, it's not so urgent any more. There was a 'roadshow' on friday for the Patient Transport in my sector, about how management reforms are going to effect us lot on the road. Most of it was just stuff they could have told us via a memo or detailed letter. But at the meeting was also the person who now does our annual leave. So I chased them up and told them about the stuff up for my annual leave for this year (this person has only just taken over our annual leave and isn't responsible for the stuff up).
She said she had the allocated annual leave for us there at the meeting. So got it out, and lo and behold, my annual leave had indeed been fixed as per my request over 5 months ago.
Nice of the Ambulance Service to tell me.
I'll still check with pay office to see if they know any different though.
And if the meet this year is the weekend of the 13th, I'll probably have to move my annual leave a week or two earlier, if I can.
Got to love working for the government.