Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

MatyMoo

starnac wrote: »

are you refering to me there Maty???? :rotfl:

Oops, sorry, definitely not - just my awful typing skills

greenval

Brilliant news Pippi!!!!!!

Pippilongstocking

Hey up greenval, how you fairing?

I sowed all your seeds at work this week and thought of you

Cleaning rooms the now and foraging for eBay stuff.

Found 'dragon' speaking/typing software (which I got bought for my dyslexia never used) I can list that now, im done i think new it's £90?

Keiss_21

Woo hoo, well done Pippi. :j:jwe all knew you were the best person for the wombling job, congratulations!!!!:T:T:beer::beer::T:T

Have a wonderful weekend, sounds like the house is getting a spring/autumn-clean!!! Good luck with your e*ay listings.

Made a few more small bags today, off to make some stuffed Xmas tree ornaments in a bit. Been ironing the material, starting to feel a bit christmassy (only 8 weeks to go, with only 4 weeks to the couple of craft fairs I'm doing :eek:).

Well done again. xxx

DawnW

congratulations on the job x Well deserved

What exactly will you be doing? If I remember correctly wombles picked up litter (?) Are you really going to be a highly qualified "ahem" 'dustperson' or is it also a horticultural term ?? :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Hey Dawn,

It's a recycling project manager for our local recycling charity, affiliated with the national organisation in Scotland. Great job, proper salary 2.5 days a week, at our recycling site on a Saturday.

We have a wee recycling site (womble HQ) Where people can donate/ or buy things and go talk to community, schools etc.

There are various themes from stop the drop, love food hate waste, peat free, and so on.

Aims to change folks habits through education and eventually things like local food initiatives etc.

Fun recycling project.

Leaves me free to peruse gardening, hort teaching at work (college) and at home through my peedie new business.

half womble/half gardener.

Salary double my phd stipend (24k) although pro rata......still more than I've ever earned.

So it overall fits nicely into the patchwork life.

Cheery_Daff

Utterly, utterly cheery and perfect job for you pippi! :T :T :T Is it permanent? Sounds like great fun, I reckon you'll have a fab time

Pippilongstocking

Thanks keiss, I've finally moved the spare, spare bed, from the spare room!

Been years....whoops.

Have a good un yersel.

Pippilongstocking

Cheery contrat til sept, many funding pots, one will be renewed, need to ensure this years work renews the others

And, we are planning put a polytunnel up and hope to use that or tonnes of stuff including 'grow your own groceries etc'

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Found 'dragon' speaking/typing software (which I got bought for my dyslexia never used) I can list that now, im done i think new it's £90?

Sue-UU over on the sealed pot thread has just had an op on her shoulder and is currently using something similar to post. She really rates it too so I would def list this as it will be very handy for someone.