thought it might be an interesting aside .
today i fished a prairie dog out of the foundations of a stone cottage....
today i fished a prairie dog out of the foundations of a stone cottage....
what strange things have you done at work today?
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thought it might be an interesting aside .
today i fished a prairie dog out of the foundations of a stone cottage....
Is that code for something! hahaha
ok ..... toaday i carved a feeding trough for a wallaby out of an ash log.
AND have been asked to come up with 2 aviaries in the style of sydney opera house.
now i fully understand that the majority of will think i am chronicly deluded but i swear its true :theyareon ...
AND have been asked to come up with 2 aviaries in the style of sydney opera house.
now i fully understand that the majority of will think i am chronicly deluded but i swear its true :theyareon ...
Supporting a guy with learning disability in the job he has at Tesco.... he loves his job
but needs support to be there...
Supporting a guy with learning disability in the job he has at Tesco.... he loves his job
Now that is one hell of a thing John.
I sowed some edible Chrysanthemums (shinguku). On a daily basis that's not very strange but I think the fact that there are edible chrysanths is.
It is nothing special - lots of folk need a little support out there and there are loads of folk doing support work
OK the pay is not the greatest
but I can work to suit my preferences (I work relief..I had no work for 5 months and now it is manic) which allows me to get away for bushy stuff, fit in lots of craft work, my writing for magazines and holidays as and when I want them I made a couple of promisses when I quit the computer room in the bank at age 20 - I would never work again to make a rich man richer but to help make peoples lives richer ( pretty well stuck to although some places I worked for made a healthy profit for the owner as well as helping enlarge the customers horizons) and never to pay income tax again as politicians waste so much (ie - the expenses scandle) and I have stuck to that too - except one year when due to my in-house accountant (wife
) I ended up having to pay a few pence....My needs are simple (like the rest of me) - my wife bought the house for cash when we returned from working abroad (all our savings... gone), never wanted or had kids, and although we are now on pretty low incomes (herself is semi-retired) we owe nothing to anyone and what we have we can spend.
I have not worked for 30+ years - but I do get paid to do what I want to do
I realy do think that if I won the lottery this weekend then it would not change my life much (OK - a newer van and some new carpets for the house ...ours were second hand 34 years ago... and a better confuser) and after a bit of a holiday (I realy would like to go back on Safari in SA and my wife has a thing for India) then it would be back to pretty much as it is now
I love my life
+2 takes a special person.
i'll keep you informed of anymore strangeness
... 2 years of a countryside management course and after i finish, i never leave. just get a casual job doing environmental/conservation weirdness.
brilliant!
I am currently volunteering at a tree nursery so today I scraped moss off the ground and dug up some diseased wild cherry seedlings. I've done funner things but it's better than sitting around doing nothing and it's nice to know you're helping out unlike most of the yobs of my age. And good work Mr. Fenna.
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I'm on summer hols, so I thought I would play with the new ferrets in the garden and pretend to chase them. When the little buggers starting launching themselves at my bare shins I squealed like a little girl and ran (ask John, he can probably do a good impression). Then I came inside and hid, to do some leatherwork.
He be the ferocious beasts:
He be the ferocious beasts:
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Cooked a clutch reversing a trailer through an offroad uphill obstical course. It's recovered and fine now but smelled a bit funky at the time.
Something a bit more bushy a few days ago. We were digging a cable trench in an electrical substation. It was non-local rocky gravel and about 30% red, tan and grey bandied chert.
Most was slaty like the black bits up behind Morchs old pad. A lot of the rest was cracked up but three useful sized lumps came home with me.
Twice I've been up the Leadhills looking for the stuff without much luck and there it goes and literaly pops out the ground at my feet.
....fifty-odd miles from where it likely came from.
Did get me thinking that there must be a quarry somewhere that cuts through a seam of it. That'd be an interesting place to have a rummage around.
Something a bit more bushy a few days ago. We were digging a cable trench in an electrical substation. It was non-local rocky gravel and about 30% red, tan and grey bandied chert.
Most was slaty like the black bits up behind Morchs old pad. A lot of the rest was cracked up but three useful sized lumps came home with me.
Twice I've been up the Leadhills looking for the stuff without much luck and there it goes and literaly pops out the ground at my feet.
....fifty-odd miles from where it likely came from.
Did get me thinking that there must be a quarry somewhere that cuts through a seam of it. That'd be an interesting place to have a rummage around.
It is nothing special - lots of folk need a little support out there and there are loads of folk doing support work
OK the pay is not the greatest
Trying not to get mushy, but you may see it as straightforward. It takes a person with irrepressible optimism and patience to do some things and I'm glad the person I know with the most of both does what you do.
I made a couple of promisses when I quit the computer room in the bank at age 20 - I would never work again to make a rich man richer but to help make peoples lives richer ( pretty well stuck to although some places I worked for made a healthy profit for the owner as well as helping enlarge the customers horizons) and never to pay income tax again as politicians waste so much (ie - the expenses scandle) and I have stuck to that too - except one year when due to my in-house accountant (wife
To be fair John, you are one hell of a barterer and I'm sure your victims, erm traders pay some for you.
I wish I could make it work.
