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July 1, 2006 at 6:21 pm #1038389
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anyone else doing work outside? im tending to the grounds of surrey and london schools, hedge trimming, grass cutting etc. up at 5:30, which is more bedtime if you ask me, but i feel really healthy for it. fresh air and tending to nature in good weather is a brilliant combo. only thing is i’m too knackered to do artwork. still, its all money, eh?
July 1, 2006 at 6:38 pm #1080818USE wrote:anyone else doing work outside? im tending to the grounds of surrey and london schools, hedge trimming, grass cutting etc. up at 5:30, which is more bedtime if you ask me, but i feel really healthy for it. fresh air and tending to nature in good weather is a brilliant combo. only thing is i’m too knackered to do artwork. still, its all money, eh?not quite working outside (I suffer from hay fever sometimes so probab;y not a good idea!) but since I moved out of Reading I have to cycle 7 miles from the Ipswich suburbs to a semi-rural location (my office is in a converted pig barn! [1] ) – people think this is hard work but its actualy more enjoyable than my 2.8 mile commute from Readings suburbs into the city area..
every day I leave the city behind, there is this road cyclists can use which is stopped off from motor traffic other than buses and works vehicles (not very frequent) which runs alongside farmland and cottages
there is also less traffic here and white vans/buses let you through on roundabouts; everyone is prepared to live a slower (but not sluggish) pace of life… it makes you so much less stressed at work.
I see all sorts of animals and birds, from livestock and farm cats to wild creatures..
There were a couple of fine fillies trotting along the Old Norwich Road a few days ago (and the horses they were on were well turned out as well 😉 )
I went back to Reading yesterday for a family get together and it immediately struck me how grimy and unfriendly a city really is (and I’ve always lived in a city/urban environment until now…)
[1] according to gv23 this is a very common practice (they did turn out the livestock and clean up the place first!)
July 1, 2006 at 6:50 pm #1080824yea, i’m back in a semi-rural environment in surrey for the summer. some of the sites we do are immense, three are three private schools we trim that are stately homes, and the grounds are full of random birds and deer and rabbits. the job i was doing before involved only cycling 5 miles, but it was up a proper massive hill which took up two miles of the journey. still, the ride home was amazing. and you are dead righ about cycling in the country, it is a million times more enjoyable, less stressfull and more healthy. its just the chance of getting vj work round here is slim to none. cant have it all.
July 1, 2006 at 8:16 pm #1080820i’ve been up a ladder working on my farmers tan for the last couple of weeks and loving it
i’ve lost weight too
July 2, 2006 at 8:54 am #1080821USE wrote:anyone else doing work outside? im tending to the grounds of surrey and london schools, hedge trimming, grass cutting etc. up at 5:30, which is more bedtime if you ask me, but i feel really healthy for it. fresh air and tending to nature in good weather is a brilliant combo. only thing is i’m too knackered to do artwork. still, its all money, eh?
I am working outside…building tents and stages….yesterday I was up at 0430, started the lorry at 0530….by 0600 I was building a tent at Rådhuspladsen(townhall square in the center of Copenhagen)….not much nature there, but a lot of beautiful girlies walking home from a night out…:groucho:…normally we build the tents in the garden of peoples homes, where they have all kinds of celebrations; weddings, anniversery etc….but all in all it´s outside in the fresh air….in the winter time I swap over to more pure showbizz, like putting up light and sound indoors. When I have the chance I build workshoptents at buildingsites or big big tents wich they build houses inside….I adore outside working would not trade anything in the world also the hard physical work that comes with it…July 2, 2006 at 9:27 am #1080819!sinner69! wrote:winter time I swap over to more pure showbizz, like putting up light and sound indoors. When I have the chance I build workshoptents at buildingsites or big big tents wich they build houses inside….is this so the builders can work on the house when the weather is bad?
I wonder why we don’t do this in England – we could get so much more work done that way!
July 2, 2006 at 9:39 am #1080822General Lighting wrote:is this so the builders can work on the house when the weather is bad?I wonder why we don’t do this in England – we could get so much more work done that way!
Yes exactly, and by heating they keep the temprature stabil so the concrete is able to harden propperly….and time issue is also a matter
July 2, 2006 at 9:46 am #1080827!sinner69! wrote:Yes exactly, and by heating they keep the temprature stabil so the concrete is able to harden propperly….and time issue is also a matterdefinetely need that here:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl
July 2, 2006 at 10:21 am #1080825i hope to be on the festie trail next summer. am just setting up my new lappy to be a vj machine. best of both worlds, playign with tech, light creative work, in a festie atmosphere. perfect. all i have to do now is all the work to get my set to a highly dope level. have been tempted by stage setup work, would be a good grounding, seeing backstage fests etc, my back is a bit fucked from whiplash tho, so i am sceptical about my ability to lift all the shite. how did you get the work?
July 2, 2006 at 10:42 am #1080823I got my work through crew rental…had a lot of experince from making parties, underground music scene and ngo politicswork, organising etc…
In the future I will hire my self out to some friend that run booking office as a caretaker/tourmanager of bands and Dj´s to get a little less hardlabour because after almost 15 years in showbizz my body starts to take it´s toll…so I will try to find the balance between hard and easy work…not simple because I adore the hardwork, but I am flexible, I have all driving licences you can obtain so I have the oppertunity to combine a lot of different work….like driving LEDbigscreens and put it up doing audio/video…driving bus at the same time tourmanager etcJuly 3, 2006 at 10:23 pm #1080828i do external rendering(plastering the outside basically)and im just gonna state the obvious here.In the summer im up on the scaffold,shorts on,shirt off,watching everyone going into their stuffy office listening to me tunes totally loving it getting a tan.But when those few months of summer are gone it turns cold im up on the scaffold freezing me nuts off getting wet watching the office bod’s going into their nice warm cosy office i must admit i get a bit jealous but i just couldnt get stuck in the same building for years on end it would drive me mental :you_crazy i much prefer working on new ones all over the place meeting new people seeing new things.
July 3, 2006 at 11:48 pm #1080829No such luck for me, usually stuck in a sweaty office or windowless recording studio. Although I am off today and will be heading to sunny Manchester to do some arty farty things.:weee:
July 4, 2006 at 12:59 am #1080826Wicked, im just sorting myself out a job as the local (unskilled) handy man, as i need a job due to the whole finishing school thing , just gonna be doing painting an gardening jobs etc. Printed off a load of flyers today and gonna deliver 1 to every house in tetty, Thats all 300 of them:yakk: . Should be amazing though an the weathers perfect for it. Could never handle a 9-5 indoors im not sure wether its due to my ADD or wat but its fuking impossible for me to carry out a repetative task for more than an hour, i just get to frustrated. Plus i fukin love the outdoors, hell im even thinking of living wild for a bit before i go to uni, just me a tent and my own means of catching food. Should be wicked though being my own boss an stuff, Wish me luck im gonna need plenty of customers:weee:
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