Preparedness for when

RAS

MrsLw - I agree.

I know someone who catastrophises all the time (tautology?). If something does not go absolutely right first time, he is convinced that he will never be able to do it.

I look at major sport figures; those with big gongs round their necks. They know more about failing repeatedly than anyone; the biggest difference being that after each failure they get up and have another go. Those who avoided failure never got to succeed.

When I am faced with something that seems impossible I tend to work out what the first thing is that I can do, even if it is only what is the first thing I can do to work out how to solve the problem.

Take the free greenhouse I acquired. Agreed to take it but was not sure whether it could be removed as a whole frame or in pieces. Obviously the first thing to do was to remove the glass so I asked a friend to show me how to do it.

Before I knew it the bulk of two walls needed transporting. So I borrowed a wheelbarrow and moved it. Once defenestrated I had to dismantle heavy wooden shelving and work out how to complete free the frame.

At that point I had a word with the friend and 3 hours later we had four large chunks of greenhouse carefully stacked on my allotment.

So for less than 10 hours work and a few scratches, i have a free greenhouse. Well - still got to level the ground and put it up...........

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Where there's a will there's a way? and there usually is, not always an easy way but usually there's a way to get there in the end with a bit of effort and lateral thinking. Well done you on transporting the greenhouse and all the glass it will make such a difference to what you can grow next year.

fuddle

Mental health is so important in ensuring we can act on the innate survival instinct.

If our mental health is out of kilter then I feel the ability to deal with whatever is needed will be hit with it.

RAS

To some extent; when I started I really had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do. Or how long it was going to take or whether the dang thing would be bolted into concrete etc.

As it happened the first day I could take off to work was a day no-one could help so I just had to take a look and work slowly. In some ways having to think quietly for myself was better than having help.

I was very grateful for the help on the last day and the borrow of the socket set. I think though that it rather shocked some of the blokes seeing us lugging great chunks of ali onto site.

Given how knackered my body is at the mo, it was a real boost to morale.

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Good for thier souls RAS, nothing like a bit of experience of equality and competence at work to make the world take you seriously is there!!! Good on you!!!

RAS

fuddle wrote: »

Mental health is so important in ensuring we can act on the innate survival instinct.

If our mental health is out of kilter then I feel the ability to deal with whatever is needed will be hit with it.

So agree fuddle; there have been challenging times in the past and it was sometimes difficult to cope with the basics let alone any additional problems. Seriously lacked resilience sometimes.

jk0

Yeah, it's amazing what you can move if you take it apart. All my wooden office furniture was thrown out by my employers Reading College about twenty years ago. I took it all apart and fitted it in my car.

It's still going strong now, and looks gorgeous. Shocking what people discard, isn't it?

Frugalsod

greenbee wrote: »

It used to be pretty much standard in a lot of public services to get massive promotions/rises in the last year or so to boost pensions.

Career average is probably more appropriate with rising retirement ages, as it allows you to reduce the pace towards the end of your working life without putting your entire pension at risk.

Yes but an average salary scheme puts paid to boosting the pension at the expense of all the other workers in the scheme who would effectively be subsidising those who get a big boost at the end of their careers.

Average salary schemes are fairer all round.

GreyQueen

:T Well done, RAS, I have had a freebie greenhouse to dismanted in a hurry from a stranger's garden and re-assemble at my parents' place before and it's a bit OMG!!! Where do I start?! Help!!

But if you can move beyond that hopeless panic, you really can achieve things. The trick with ME, which I've had for the best part of 30 years now, is pacing. So I do a little and then rest. This is an excellent carry-through habit for almost anything in life, although my native temperament is a crazy enthusiasm and wanting to go at life like a bull at a gate.

But, with patience, low cunning, an ability to think around the corners and a small tool kit, you'd be amazed what you can achieve. The trick is having the guts to start.

I once found part of a pushbike abandoned. It had one wheel with no tyre, no saddle. I took it apart with a few basic tools. I carried the bike down to my friendly neighbourhood bike shop to get them to knock the chain off so I could get the derallier. I reduced that bike to its component parts, carried it across the region on the blinking bus and carbooted it as spares - made £50. Have done many similar things over they years, which is one of the reasons I smile wryly if told am lucky to have savings - I work at being that kind of lucky. :rotfl:

jk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuDuu662jlI#t=51