The National Trust and me.....

I'm in this little video. One brief shot of me face and then it's all down to how well you know my hands and legs to spot the other appearances.

I'd give anything...... No I'd give everything to not have the back pain and be in a financially secure place to go back to doing this kind of thing again. (The back problem is nothing to do with the best 3 and a bit years of my working life.....)

You may be thinking that it can't be like this everyday but those people in the video with me are some of the best people I've ever met. Even a shit day with this lot was better than the best days anywhere else...... I mean..... How often do you get to be friends with ponies and then the ponies follow you for no reason at all in your job? I know that hasnth happen in any job I've had since.

Working for the National Trust firstly as a volunteer and then as a paid ranger made me appreciate life in a way that I didn't quite understand before. I'm no longer materialistic. I don't care what people think of how I look or what I say. What I say has feeling and meaning attached to it and is not there to impress anyone.

I miss those people and those places so much. My aim in life used to be to just get to the next day with as little stress as possible. Now all I can do is gaze into the future and hope that one day soon my back in good enough to manage the journey to these places so I can visit my friends and see what they are up to.

One day soon.......

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2018 so far.

Well it seems that all my old blog posts have vanished, so lets start from the start eh? Well not the very start, that's a little far back....

Lets go back to January 2015, the end of January 2015 to be exact...

I had scraped myself off of the bottom of the barrel and started to get my life back on track. The breakdown was behind me and life looked to be going in the right direction. I arrived at my new digs in Rhossili ready to re start my life as a volunteer for the National Trust. By the end of 2017 I had graduated from Volunteer to Paid ranger on the Save our Magnificent Meadow project and everything was kind of OK. My contract with the trust had ended and I was looking for work again this time in Cardiff.

With the help of my Amazing Girlfriend and Friends I had a great place to live and was content delivering Pizza for a well known company. That fell through when the insurance they had clashed with my own insurance. So again no job. But I persisted and got a job working for a Sports Grounds Company. Just 3 months into that I hurt my back. A lovely bulge on my L5/S1 and a lot of pain everywhere else meant that I couldn't work and after 3 month off sick we separated ways in an amicable fashion. Not financially beneficial but the door is open to go back once my back is sorted.

And once I have received my new Birth Certificate as here in the UK you need to prove your a citizen with either a valid passport or birth certificate. Neither of which I have it turns out. My passport ran out last month and who knows where my birth certificate is? I have ordered a new birth certificate and am awaiting that to arrive.

Add into that multiple trips to the vets with the cats totalling over £1200, persistent car issues and just dealing with the feeling of sinking depression everyday and i'm doing surprisingly well. That is all down to the amazing lady called Liz. She is my girlfriend, best friend and without her I would have completely lost the plot, again.

Anyway...... That's the introduction done. Briefly, there is a lot more detail I could put in there but you don't have that long, no one does, What you will see here on a semi regular basis are posts about cats, cars, art projects, and anything else that I feel the need to write about.

So please do follow if you want to read more about the life of a guy who has and is dealing with all that life throws at him in a somewhat stable and coherent manor......

Social media links as follows.......

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