Ok lets start with what is normal? Its whatever it is to an individual but we obviously have our social expectations of what normal is.
Ive never really fallen into the whole work your 9-5 job pay your mortgage and then retire on your savings. I cant stay in one place for long as it drives me nuts and I am always wanting to move onto the next experience with work and living.
At times this does drive me around the bend. We have been in Nottingham for nearly 6 months and I hate it. My eldest daughter hates it and my youngest doesnt mind it too much but would prefer to be back in Kettering. The major problem being wifey loves it. Its her home town and shes glad to be back.
We are luckier than alot of people as we do have a roof over our heads. The bills are paid and we have food in our bellies. BUT im sure there is something wrong in my head! I cant stay still. I have a massive desire to move on again to the next challenge but fear this will destroy my marriage. I would love to be "normal". To want nothing more than one home in one place with a lifetime in a regular 9-5 looking forward with glee to the traditional 2 week holiday and bank holidays for those extra days off. To have a regular life long group of friends with the set nights out.
I cant do it. I work hard so I can see interesting new places. But I wish at times I could settle into that sort of routine.
Monday 12 April 2010
Saturday 3 April 2010
New Leaf
Yes yes yes its been quite some time since my last blog but I really have been busy!
Having read back on my posts the last one was about the chooks arriving. Well we lost one but thats to be expected when dealing with ex battery hens. They are worked so hard in the first year of their lives they can develop all sorts of problems. Still we have the 3 and they now live on the allotment in a new hand built coop and the next stage is to build a 20 ft run for them up there. Then some new meat birds will be added along with a turkey for christmas!
The allotment is now sorted with all the brassicas in along with our spuds! The greenhouse is full of seedlings waiting for a few weeks for the spring to kick in properly. Its so nice to see the new life and growth of food thats going to see you through the best part of the year. Its immensley satisfying to eat your own veg!
My youngest brother was over from Ireland this weekend with his fiance so all the family got together which was fantastic!! Its so rare when there is 6 kids all now grown up to be in the same place all at once! His fiance is lovely and I had to ask if she was just trying to upset her parents by marrying him lol but they do make a great couple. He will be releasing his first album over the next couple of months and if you want a taster take a look at www.davylewis.com as he has a few songs on there already and his first single is for charity so buy the download and do your bit!!
The BIG news is that I have given up smoking. There is a local support type thing that you go to every couple of weeks and they give you tips help etc. Its really good! Its been a couple of days now and im doing great. Im using patches which seem to be doing really well for me. I have to say though that I really was ready to stop. I have been smoking now for twenty years, that was an eye opener when they asked how long and I worked it out!, but it was starting to effect my health. I sounded like an old man in the morning coughing like mad and I was getting out of breath doing the simplist things. Im only 36 so this really really started to worry me.
They say the first few days are the worse but when you are ready to stop and I mean really ready it doesnt make any odds. Ive only had one bad patch when i wanted one and that was on the first day driving home from work. Now that was just habit!! I always had a couple of smokes on the drive home whether I wanted them or not!
Ive tried many times in the past to stop and normally crashed at the first hurdle but it feels so different this time and a good dose of fear of your health helps no end! Watch out for the oxygen rush though that gets you at really strange times...and you dont sleep as much??? I only have 6 hours or so anyway but that seems to have gone down to 5??? Odd!
Having read back on my posts the last one was about the chooks arriving. Well we lost one but thats to be expected when dealing with ex battery hens. They are worked so hard in the first year of their lives they can develop all sorts of problems. Still we have the 3 and they now live on the allotment in a new hand built coop and the next stage is to build a 20 ft run for them up there. Then some new meat birds will be added along with a turkey for christmas!
The allotment is now sorted with all the brassicas in along with our spuds! The greenhouse is full of seedlings waiting for a few weeks for the spring to kick in properly. Its so nice to see the new life and growth of food thats going to see you through the best part of the year. Its immensley satisfying to eat your own veg!
My youngest brother was over from Ireland this weekend with his fiance so all the family got together which was fantastic!! Its so rare when there is 6 kids all now grown up to be in the same place all at once! His fiance is lovely and I had to ask if she was just trying to upset her parents by marrying him lol but they do make a great couple. He will be releasing his first album over the next couple of months and if you want a taster take a look at www.davylewis.com as he has a few songs on there already and his first single is for charity so buy the download and do your bit!!
The BIG news is that I have given up smoking. There is a local support type thing that you go to every couple of weeks and they give you tips help etc. Its really good! Its been a couple of days now and im doing great. Im using patches which seem to be doing really well for me. I have to say though that I really was ready to stop. I have been smoking now for twenty years, that was an eye opener when they asked how long and I worked it out!, but it was starting to effect my health. I sounded like an old man in the morning coughing like mad and I was getting out of breath doing the simplist things. Im only 36 so this really really started to worry me.
They say the first few days are the worse but when you are ready to stop and I mean really ready it doesnt make any odds. Ive only had one bad patch when i wanted one and that was on the first day driving home from work. Now that was just habit!! I always had a couple of smokes on the drive home whether I wanted them or not!
Ive tried many times in the past to stop and normally crashed at the first hurdle but it feels so different this time and a good dose of fear of your health helps no end! Watch out for the oxygen rush though that gets you at really strange times...and you dont sleep as much??? I only have 6 hours or so anyway but that seems to have gone down to 5??? Odd!
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