I love my holidays. Unfortunately I don’t get enough holidays in my life because I work too much. I don’t like working, I’d much rather be on holidays.
Here’s a treat coming up for me soon, I get to go away this weekend. What a great treat, it will be really nice to get away and have a holiday.
I get to go with a friend because my family all have some sort of concert to go to and they can’t come so I get to go with a friend of mine. Last time I took my family, but not this time.
We are thinking of camping. I have a good tent, canvas, water proof, big enough to be comfortable and its forecast to rain, so I may need all of that too. I hope it doesn’t rain because rain isn’t what you need to have when you go camping.
We leave Friday morning at about 4 am. We’re meeting some other people at 6 and it will take about 1 hour to get to where we’re meeting. I don’t really like getting up early, good thing I don’t have to too often. In fact I hate early mornings.
But it’s not much of a drama really getting up early if you’ve got a holiday to get up for. And I’m looking forward to it so it’s not that much of a problem to me.
I hope the car does ok, its not really old but its not all that new either and Id hate to think the car let me down and didn’t make it.
I broke my old fishing rod a while ago and I bought a new rod this morning because I plan to do some fishing on Saturday. Saturday is planned to be a free day and so I’m off fishing. And so I needed a new rod because I’d broken the old one.
My old broken rod was one I made a long time ago. I bought the fiberglass blank and all the runners and made it myself and I’ve used it and used it. I was pretty impressed with myself that I managed to make my own fishing rod myself. (more…)
I’ve lived a number of different places in the world in my life. For instance when I was younger I was lucky enough to spend a bit of time living in France. It wasn’t full time, I just lived there on and off because I had a friend there.
France is a fantastic place and I would love to live there all my life but unfortunately that’s not life is it?
I’m lucky enough to live in the country now and I just love living in the country. I’ve lived out here for a few years now, more than I care to remember actually. And I grew up in the city but I wouldn’t really want to go back there again.
There’s just so much to living in the country that you just can’t find living in a city. Here’s one example. I love cycling and do it heaps out here. It helps keep me fit and that’s important and I really need to keep fit. And it gets me into some beautiful outdoors locations.
I ride past so many wonderful things to see. I love to see cows and I see sheep and other animals as well. I even have my own cows and they give me calves which is great too, because I love having calves.
There’s lots of advantages to living out here and cows and calves at my place is just one of them. It’s nature and I love nature, and seeing nature.
Now it’s summer and it’s really hot and I can feel it right through my feet. There’s been some very hot weather and it’s getting on top of me, I don’t like the heat much. Of course it would still be hot if I lived in a city but here it’s still better. I see nature, I see the seasons come and go over time and I see things like the grass start to grow and stop and the leaves fall off the trees and regrow again.
I see the leaves of the trees turn different colors too, there’s so many wonderful colors. I see the new trees growing underneath the old ones when the seeds germinate. I see the old and the young the dead and the living, I see the new and the not so young.
All of these things cycle, just like me. They go round and round and I really see what the seasons are.
Maybe if I lived in a city I’d have a little garden, maybe even no garden. And I might not even have a tree at all. Maybe all I’d have is some concrete in my back yard and no more, except a BBQ perhaps because I do love to ahve a BBQ.
And unlike here I probably wouldn’t get to see the seasons change like I do.
The city is so sterile really. I spent a lot of years there so I know what its like and I don’t like it. Now of course thats just a personal view, but thats how I feel about it now.
Of course all my family lives in the city and they love it. My brother is a doctor and hes single, so he likes all the social life of the city. Theres things to do there that he’s into, and it suits him. But the city is not for me at all.
Its a shame that I spent so many years of my life in the city and wasted them. No thats not fair, they werent wasted of course, I lived my life and that was what I did then. But now that I’ve found the country I prefer it here. Maybe I should talk to my brother and suggest he moves out here some time. (more…)