Thursday 21 August 2008

Don't know if I've been missed

Its been a while since I wrote. I'm feeling good just now, working very hard and enjoying it. One of the down sides to being self-empolyed is you really do have to make hay while the sun shines. Not that the sun has been shining as much as it might have been for the farmers to get their hay in, all the plants are half flattenned in the gardens with all the rain we've had. Tuesday had a great weather moment with my sun coming out and giving my arm a uv bite while a thunderstorm was going on above me.
I feel a little guilty tonight. I had a friend helping me out with my joinery work yesterday and his back muscles didn't seem to be too impressed with their new job as my labourer, so I gathered as the groans got louder and louder. Anyhow I feel a bit had as I asked him back today (I gave him a lie in) but he was just the same. I feel like a slave driver despite telling him he could go home at any point. He really gave it his heart and soul but even mentally he was struggling today as the pain must have been really taking its toll. Anyway he has a wife and 3 kids to feed so I was doing him a favour. Andy I salute you.
I checked on my boat today. She needs a little bit of tlc. There are quite a few skuffs and scrapes which are starting to spoil her looks. I just don't want them to get worse than that.
Did I mention that I bought a windsurf board. So far its been good, I still am a beginner, getting time out on it is easier said than done, but I'm glad I got my own board instead of relying on a course at an RYA school somewhere.
I have to end on a bit of a grumble I am afraid - why are there so many adverts for feminine products on the tv? I don't care if its un-pc to say so, but it is what all the guys are thinking. Goodness me how are all the teenage boys coping with it?? Sitting watching a bit of family viewing with their mother and sister in and some feminie hygeine toiletry comes on the screen. Enough already.
More work this weekend as of course everyone wants everything done by the middle of last week or before they actually bought their new house - I will just have to ask for overtime rates, whatever I decide them to be.