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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    so long as she's happy with the "work / life balance ".
     I think I've got it right after almost 40 years.
    Devon.
  • She is working long hours 8-5 plus alternate Saturday mornings, but she enjoys the job and gets on well with the people she works with and for, plus the pay is much better than before so that's a big plus.  Her Lovely Hub enjoys wielding the Dyson etc so shares stuff at weekends  etc and their friends show that they appreciate them both ...  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "she enjoys the job and gets on well with the people she works with"  that's half the battle won.
    I 99% of the time love my job and my colleagues which keeps the times when it /they drive me crazy in perspective.
    'm lucky I only have to go 2 days a week, I never forget how lucky I am.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Important to enjoy your job or at least earn enough to compensate if it's not that good.

    Hosta - I expect you can do the sums but 10 day's hire would more than pay for your own machine.  Ours is smaller but only cos I don't want it running away with OH when he's 70 and probably not as strong.   At the rate we're going developing beds here we may need it till he's 80!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Bless, Wonky sounds as if she is doing far to good a job!
    send my best to please

    just back from the greenhouse, my goodness it must have been cold last night. My tomatoes have all flopped. I am not puting any heating on at this time of year, will just have to keep 🤞
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • It runs in this side of the family @Lily Pilly    o:)   lol    I will pass your kind wishes on to Wonky ... I know she will appreciate everyone's kind thoughts  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    When Hostafan has finished this big project I doubt he will undertake another, he may, but won’t be for a long time. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    It aint half stony.
    I've just called the hire place to say I'll keep it for 24 hours, only £20 more.
    When we moved here there was a fence about 1.5m from the drive then a drop behind it so I've had to fill it in. 
    After lunch I'll rake the soily top half (which was under turf) over the composty bottom half (where I build up the level with grass clippings and woodchip over the last 3 years) and re-mulch the top half then rotovate again. 

    @Obelixx, I did seriously think about buying one but in the 7 years we've been here, I've only hired one twice and I'm  wary of buying second hand machinery as you never know A: how it's been treated previously ,and B; the real reason why it's being sold. You might end up buying something which someone else is glad to be seeing the back of. 
    Devon.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Looks promising Hosta. You’re so lucky having a good climate and soil to work in, even if you had to build it up. We live on shale not soil 
    S. E. NSW
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Pat, I never forget how lucky I am. 
    Have you had any more rain?
    Devon.
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