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Daily grind
August
My Three month contract at Town Hall ended, but I have a new contract for a year. I can work four days a week, which is good for the golf. I seem to have a lot more work to do now. I have been writing words for signs on parks and for letters from the Lord Mayor.
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Jan
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| Jan in the middle with Chris, Mike and Eunice and Viv on a windy winter day in the Blue Mountains |
Jan and the three cats are all well. Jan’s business has been quieter for a while, but is now picking up nicely. She’s working four days a week (she’s the boss, she can do what she likes) and has started making some jewellery as a hobby. The down side of this is that she sometimes intrudes into my workshop.
The good side is that she has a handy tool collection!
As usual, the cats aren’t doing anything except sleeping and eating an enormous amount of expensive cat food.
Jan is a regular with her personal trainer at the gym. I refuse to go to such a place, but we both go for bike rides at the weekend. We do 20 kilometres or more at a good pace so it helps keep us fit. We are both reading lots, especially Jan, who enjoys her monthly book club sessions.
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Extra fun
I’ve been having fun flying my radio controlled aircraft. My big plane, an Extra 300 with 50cc two-stroke engine and 2.2 metres wingspan is a wonderful machine. My model flying club had to move fields recently and that kept me away for a while because the new field was a bit rough. Now it is not bad, so I’m back in the air. I love flying aerobatics with it. There’s almost as much adrenalin as with the real thing as it is quite scary to get it down low, to crash it would be a great shame (and expensive!).
Unlike the real Extra 300 (which I’ve also flown) the model has a power-to-weight ratio that allows it to hover vertically on about half throttle, and climb out of the hover with full throttle. Scary fun.
I now have more than 100 flights on it! Time for champagne!
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On course
I’ve been having fun with golf. Myself and three friends were all working part time for a while so had a regular midweek game of golf. Incredibly frustrating, as golf is, but also very good fun. With a few lessons now and then, I’ve been getting steadily better, then worse, then better, for a while. I’m good enough to hit the ball 200 plus metres off the tee, but unfortunately not always where I want to hit it. The new job at Town Hall has rather upset the golf schedule for a while, but I can get back into it somehow I am sure.
UPDATE: Last 18 holes I played (August 2) I managed to par 5 holes and go round in 89. That’s brilliant for me. I expect it is all downhill from here. I think there is probably a graph with lines that show me struggling to get better at golf with more practice but getting worse at golf as I get older and more infirm. Sigh!
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