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taxi73

What fantastic news Four new pieces of work ...........I'm so chuffed for you!!!!!!!!!

lucielle

Excellent news regarding the work. I wish my work would phone!!!!
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mizmir

Four bits of work!! Fantastic. Perhaps a bit like buses..... but really welcome for you right now. Well done.

Sea78

fantastic about the work Seax - hope your weekend has been good

Sea xxx

dawnybabes

Ooh - Samosas ... Yummy, have you a receipe for me ?

Hope U enjoyed the wedding and congrats on the work :-)

hypno06

Hope the samosas were a success and that you have had a good weekend x

bountiful

Sending you the vibe that OH will get work to match yours and that work will come in more smoothly and consistently for you ........ a steady flow would be good, eh? with you in charge of the rate of flow. I often curse my shift work hours - long hours and tiring lates and earlies - really anti-social. Then I really appreciate the variety, challenge and the mid-week days off etc. I think creative people need a bit of on-the-edge to keep the old juices flowing - at some level, for all my craving for security, I seem to find myself repeatedly attracted to the more risky, insecure paths in life. I can identify so strongly with your self-employed dilemma - I was self-employed for 8 years as a shiatsu practitioner - and eventually realised it was a failing business which did not support me - but you're in a free-lance profession I guess - hard, hard - but do you get a buzz from the work when it comes in? Phew - sorry, got a bit philosophical there!:cool:

hypno06

Hi Seaxwyn! Hope work is going well!

Seaxwyn

Thanks folks. The wedding was lovely and the samosas perfect. But dawnybabes, I have to confess I didn't actually make them. I bought them frozen - a trick I learned from my Indian sister-in-law. Bags of 50 samosas are £9.99 in the Asian shops around here, they just need to be deep fried.

Bountiful, I absolutely agree, I have always been attracted to the riskier routes through life. I do get a buzz from my work and it would take a lot to make me give up self-employment. But I need to square that with my difficulty getting on with things and my need to earn a certain minimum amount each month. At present it's not really working for me either.

It would be wonderful if OH could earn as steadily as me. And who knows, perhaps its not so impossible. He met up with some old friends last week who are all working in animation studios and earning loads, it has revived in him the hope that he could get one of those film jobs again. I really want to support him in this, but have seen his hopes raised and dashed many times.

On other DFW matters.... the dentist has suggested my two older girls should see an orthodontist to have their teeth straightened. They are very keen of course as they are self-conscious teenagers and want to look perfect. But their teeth are not so bad! Their eye teeth are a little out of line perhaps but well within the normal range. So I'm not looking forward to making the decision whether to go ahead with that or not.

bountiful

My son had train tracks through his early teens - enjoyed the colours and now appreciates his improved teeth - he had eye teeth growing sort of in front of the others and had ones behind (I think) removed so that the eye teeth could drop down. He got it on the NHS - so it didn't cost me. I really enjoyed watching the dentist work when they refitted the bands - like poetry in motion!