i have experienced a day of dizzying high points and plummeting depths. I had some very nice comments on facebook (please be my friend!) email and other farming forums about my blog and my Nuffield Scholarship Precis i posted on here yesterday. my ego appreciates all comments! in fact it positively encourages them.
high points of the day include, another follower for my blog! welcome Chas! (your not my mum are you?) then when having a slow puncture on my car repaired at a local garage the mechanic told me not to worry about paying for it as the computer is broken, so £15 saved! woop woop! i phoned the wife and told her the kids could eat tonight, maybe life is not so bad. Next i met up with an old friend in town and spent a very pleasant hour in one of his coffee shops discussing a possible forthcoming business venture, so as you see us duck farmers can live the high life as well.
i then walked back to my car, still on a bit of a high and my wife called to say she had two people quoting tomorrow on laying new flooring in our house (woop), even that could not spoil my pleasant afternoon. Then i see the present on my car windscreen (no not a gift from my feathered french friends) but a little yellow package telling me i was four minutes over my parking ticket and the pleasure of those four minutes was going to cost me £50 but there is good news, if i pay it in seven days it will be only £20! joy of joys.
so the natural balance of my life has been restored. for an hour i was £20 up. i will savour that moment for a long time.
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I bet the person giving the ticket out has a Horse.
ReplyDeletei would imagine so. it is the kind of dirty trick they would do. like waking you up at five am when they have forgotten there keys. or asking if they can have a new field because there one is dirty.
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