Lucielle's daring debt free journey

lucielle

I've been posting on a horsey forum as well as on here, don't worry still love you guys! Anyway, somebody has offered a working holiday in exchange for some riding, they'll provide food and accommodation, in return they need things painting, planting and generally tidying up in return for riding. Plucked up the courage to ring and it looks like I'm going down the second week on half term. Feeling incredibly guilty leaving the family but the thought of being outside and getting mucky fills me with joy! Its down where the fossils live so I can see them and call in and see my sister. Oh was surprisingly very supportive despite me never meeting this person. She sounds great and calls a spade a shovel!
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turfy6

That sounds great and will be good for you to be back riding again. p.s Im technically blind too :rotfl: enjoy the break

taxi73

the break sounds great

Verbatim

Oh yes go for it L.

lucielle

A topsy turvey end to the week. 1 sister has been very supportive my decision to go for a break and the other has been a real cowbag. Managed to get through work ok but Friday morning was very stressful when I realised a site had sold 12000 litres of derv out of 1 tank, delivery not arrived and only bringing 20000lt of derv and another one only scheduled for Tuesday with no quantities confirmed. Cue lots of panic phone calls to boss to try and get a weekend delivery. Any way to cut a long story short another delivery arranged for Friday evening and Monday. Was slightly worried when they wanted to put 27000 litres in that tank and at that moment only had capacity for 24000. Did tell the boss he owed me a couple of bottles of hair
dye after today. Still the boss told me to do it so its on his shoulders. Did treat myself to a magnum in the aid of de-stressing!!!

Worked everynight last week on my NVQ as the assessor was coming out, turned out she was in a CBA mood and had a Magnum with us and took all our work away.

DD1 decided after all the 'ology' saga that she thought she would do French instead (which was an option). Phoned school first thing on Monday to see if this could be changed, lots of uummming and ahhing. Found out on Friday that it has been. I feel as if that's one less thing to fight for. Have a few other things going on, which hopefully I can reveal tomorrow night.

DD1 has been doing my other job and very well too, in fact so well that she's getting £5ph. She can't do next week as she's away with Scouts, maybe a chance to steal my crown back!!! Had to go and pick her up at the end of her shift. I was being followed by 2 motorbikes, 1 overtook safely. The other decided to do it on a bend and another car was coming, I did an emergency stop and he got away with it, the other car was flashing his headlights. I followed the biker as I had a rough idea that he would be stopping in the village outside the greasy spoon. I pulled up next to him and we had a little chat. He did apologise and said he was in the wrong. Not really the point when its too late and you're dead and it wasn't as if he was some stupid boy biker he was certainly a maturer (or not as the case maybe) chap.

Have spent the rest of the afternoon planting seeds and spuds with the other 2 chaps. Had a BBQ last night and a massive bonfire. Washed everybodies beds and got them back on. Bliss, line dried bedding.

Now onto my other quandry, wise peeps on t'internet. Lots of thoughts please. DS1 as you may know wants to go Agricultural college and has got a place as long as he gets 5 Cs. At the last gradings it was looking like its going to be all Ds (at least he's consistant). He is at this moment in time, probably in a field somewhere with his hand stuck up some defenceless sheeps bottom playing midwife. I'm just about to send off a deposit for his accommodation £310 thankyou very much.

OH got a phone call from a farmer up the valley. This farmer, for those of you who've read my previous ramblings helped me out when I was having my horsey saga and let me keep my old boy on some of his land. He also helped my OH out when things were really bad after we moved up here and you really couldn't wish to meet a nicer family. At that time it restored our faith in human nature, sorry I'm off on a tangent. Anyway, the farmers son has broken his leg, think its the thigh bone can never remember if that's the tibia or fibia, anyway its one of them, he was jumping over a fence and landed wrong. He wants DS1 to come and work for him fulltime!!!! This would mean no college (big saving for us). OH and I don't know what to do, I think we should tell him as its his choice whether its the right choice who knows? On the other hand how many other 16 year olds are going to get a full time job? Would he be able to get one after his 2 years in college? We have thought about day release at the local (crappy) college so he gets his 'tickets' in chainsaw use, health and safety etc. Thoughts please.

Also forgot to mention the house I lusted after has gone 'under offer' I'm off to check my euro millions ticket.
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taxi73

I'd let him take the job full time as it'll be a reference for his next job and experience on his CV.He could maybe get some qualifications by studying at evening school.

hypno06

ultimately, it must be his choice - my mother made too many choices for me at that stage of my life, and although I know she had my best interests at heart, I have always said I would never do the same.

That said.....(and because you asked!) I would say that if he wants to do the job, and it is a job he will enjoy, be appreciated for etc, then he should do so. He can always study later if he needs or wants to, whether full time or part time.

I know that if my children were offered that chance, especially if the chances of getting the required grades were slim, then I would not discourage them from taking the job.

Karmacat

I followed Hypno over from her diary. Sorry I don't come on here regularly, Lucielle, I just don't follow everyone I want to ....

I vote for telling him and encouraging him to take it if he wants it - I sense a real reaction against qualifications at the moment, and he's so young, he's got plenty of time to go for the college course. Its really organic, its just come out of the blue - could be a win-win.

Hope you don't mind me putting my two-pennorth in.

lucielle

The more the merrier KC and thanks for your input.
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Wordsmith

Hello, Lucielle. I am an interfering old mare and can't resist giving an opinion ... do overlook if it's not welcome.

I'd say your son needs to be comfortable with whatever decision is made, and that will be only if he has made it himself. Having said that, if he is struggling to get the grades before going, will he struggle to keep up with the work when he's there, and will that make him unhappy?

I would also say that to get a job in the future, unless it's as a manager of a big farm or maybe unless he wants to go abroad, his experience will stand him in much better stead than college qualifications. As you say, he can get individual qualifications from short courses (I expect the agricultural college do some as well as your local FE college) and distance learning (if he's disciplined). He is very young, and it might be that he would benefit by working first and going to college in a few years' time anyway.

Two other thoughts: 1) could you ask the advice of the college? and 2) when you say the job is full time, is that permanent full time or temporary full time? What happens when the farmer's son's leg is mended?