Scents of Direction

	Scents of Direction


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	Monday, December 25, 2006 DSCF0020 Originally uploaded by Saturner. Look who's under our tree! This little chap is only a few weeks old, he was found in our warehouse at work this week, he was cold, scared and dirty. An email came round to everyone in the company asking if anyone could look after him, nobody local could help so Georgia and I travelled the 250 mile round trip on Friday to pick him up. We managed to get him straight into the vets, he was quite dehydrated and had a bit of a temperature, also really skinny... He's coming along well now though! It's not the first time a kitten has been found at the warehouse, we think a cat lives wild somewhere near the railway line and isn't great at looking after her brood. He's settling in quite well, Bumble (our other cat) isn't too chuffed about the whole situation but she's coming around slowly. - Steve, 10:44 PM, Sunday, December 24, 2006 Well, I think I might just be starting to feel the Christmas feeling creeping in, not bad for 6pm Christmas eve I suppose! I'm looking forward to having some time off in the coming days, I've been pretty busy for months and I'm looking forward to just kicking back for a while. I'm not due back at the day job until 2nd Jan (might work from home then though!) and I have no work planned in the other job either (although if something comes up this week I might have a crack at it). Yesterday I started work at 4am and I was in Cardiff before sunrise, it was a long drive when you can only go 56 mph but the actual work wasn't too demanding. When I got back to the depot and started refueling the truck, disaster struck! The coupling on the pipe from the fuel pump broke and the pump (like you get on a forecourt) dispensed gallons of diesel all over me and the surrounding area... it took me a moment or two to come to my senses and realise what was happening, even longer to figure out what to do! I eventually found an isolator switch and turned the power off, there was fuel everywhere by that time though. The worst thing about it all is that I was covered in diesel and I washed my clothes along with other normal laundry, everything* now smells of diesel and I'm not Mr Popular around here. - Steve, 6:10 PM, Thursday, December 14, 2006 When I'm working and enjoying early starts, I try to get myself to bed somewhere between 9.30 and 10pm. It's not worked out like that tonight because I have been distracted by a few fantastic websites that I just can't stop browsing... First up is the Self Build Motor Caravan Club, next is the Big Merc project at Stealth Camper and finally an awesome Unimog Camper which is causing me to feel nothing short of pure lust! - Steve, 11:14 PM, Monday, December 04, 2006 My long awaited yearly bonus was paid on Friday, that's a relief and has certainly helped us get back on track with all the bills and such like. I'm still going to do some extra work at the weekends though because I'm determined to build up a buffer of cash to deal with anything unexpected that may come along in the future. My relationship with money has totally changed in the last few years, I've never been good with cash and I have always had a tendency to spend more than I should (or more than I have...). I can safely say that those days are behind me now, there is absolutely no desire left in me to go on a spending spree. Now, if only I could get Mrs T to think the same way as me... - Steve, 10:43 AM, I was up at 3.30am again on Saturday to go out delivering produce to various places in London, this time I wasn't the driver but I made myself useful when it came to unloading the stuff! This time of year makes for very big orders and I think we probably shifted a good few tons of Vegetables, fruit and meat. All the stuff had to be shifted about by hand and I really ache today. - Steve, 10:35 AM,


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