Curiosity.....we know what it did

[veggiechicken]

Well for a couple of school holidays I plucked and gutted chickens. !

[Miss Mousetrousers]

You say that... which reminds me, how is the other half (and I'm not referring to Mr Mousetrousers)
Miss MT has/had a Rary/VC thing happening on some other forum - like Rary/VC it was occasionally quite steamy)

Mr MT (a.k.a. Mr Gander) is very well at the moment considering! Re- your quote, condensing (ha!) the aforementioned posts from Balders, I was privileged to assist certain people on another forum with their IT problems. I was deemed so valuable that someone made me a card (which I've hopefully attached). Initially my consulting firm was called T.I.T.S. (Thurnham I.T. Services.) but was later changed to T.A.R.T.S (Thurnham Area Reliable Technical Services) due to a wider audience response from the various publications advertised in the local rag. I hope this has addressed any worries you may have regarding Baldy's sanity.

[veggiechicken]

Don't worry, Miss MT, we know Baldy is mad - it was your sanity that concerned me.

[Miss Mousetrousers]

No need to worry. My sanity has been a lot better since I had a change of tablets!

[rary]

Are you sure the tablets are working

[Snoop Puss]

Miss MT: GG Gabor in another life!

Best wishes from me, Miss MT.

[Miss Mousetrousers]

Thanks Snoops. Nice to still be remembered from those happy posting days of yore.

[1Bee]

Uni jobs:-
Weeding in a garden centre
Unpacking consignments of DVDs from one of those big membership schemes
Working in H Samuel
Writing out cheques for an insurance company
Reconciling hire purchase spreadsheets for the 3rd largest bank in the world (the finance arm of Ford).

Volunteer jobs:-
Conservation Leader for British Trust for Conservation Volunteers: dry stone walling, bridge building, step building, fencing, tree planting, hedge laying, scrub clearance... you name it.
Deputy Treasurer for a national writer's organisation
Trustee for a local 'shopmobility for the outdoors' charity
Dancer with a women's north-west clog morris side

'Real' jobs:-
Author
Conservation Officer - countryside organisation
Landscape Officer - rural charity
Rural Community Officer - rural charity
Community Development Officer - rural charity
Public and Patient Engagement Lead - NHS
Sub-Locality Commissioning Lead - NHS
Commissioning Officer - NHS

Who I really am:-
Morris Dancing, veg growing, wild swimming romantic novelist and adoptive mum.

[Jay22]

An author 1Bee how exciting!! My son has written a script which Am@zon was interested in. They asked him to tweak it but while he was busy doing that they decided not to accept scripts anymore... now he has no idea where to go from here!

[1Bee]

Writers' and Artists' Yearbook, Jay22. Look for agents/publishers that deal with similar material and approach according to their guidelines (usually online these days.) Either that or competitions... lots of research and reading mags to find them. Good luck to him!

[rary]

1Bee what is wild swimming?

[1Bee]

Not nearly as much fun as it sounds... it basically means swimming in the wild, rather than a swimming pool. Sea, river, lake... I used to do a lot, could leave work at 4pm, be in the river by 4.30. It's harder to achieve with littlies, although we do a lot of messing about in water.

[bikermike]

Saturday shop blerk (WHSmiths, sportswear, wooden floors, soft furnishings)
Ice-cream van driver
professional tea-maker (office junior temp told to make the tea to stop the engineers hanging round the kettle and chatting)
builder's labourer

Proper Jobs:
Copywriter
PR gonk

Then I became a laywer, and I've been doing that ever since. Currently in a portacabin.