PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH

[skihorse]

A new thread for the gabbers.

Hopefully we will find out during the course of this thread whether dear cheggers has laid a baybee or two yet!

witts today funnily enough i have a bloody nostril. My nhs book says snozz bleeds tis common.

One set of chums I think will think cos we is diffed that there is no point including us in stuff. Just a feeling I have, happy to be proved wrong but we will wait and see.

Is it not home time yet?

ski your next job could be Jezzer Kyles understudy? Non?

What do you wanna do in your ideal job/ life scenario?

Uni is fab for getting you somewhere - but I fink is easy to forget how much of a pain writing assingments is... etc. I'd only wanna do it with a clear goal in mind...

I say this also cos when I iz depressed wiv werk - i toy with idea of going back to uni to study something 'I love' just cos it would be 'fascinating' - then I realise I iz being silly - and am just looking for escape from current situation.. Not saying dat iz you... but dat iz me...

alorithms = algorithms obviously. Oooh what a lovely boy's name = Algernon! (wasn't he a Rupert the Bear character?)

Anyway, I haz done my bit for corporate merrycar and am going home via my ponie and apparently there is a newly arrived parcel of preggo clothes waiting for me.

Btw, speaking of which - isabella oliver maternity is doing a 50% off on selected lines. I haz resisted temptation. So far.

Algie Pug!!

iggy Looking back at my uni career from where I am now, it is quite clear that I was stark, staring mad. I should've got help. As it was I literally walked out one day - I put everything that would fit in my car... and I drove away. (The rest went in a skip).

I just feel I never achieved my academic potential and now that I'm mentally in a good place I'd like another chance. But indeed, to do what? To push myself it'd be maths/physcis, for an easy ride I'd go back and do equine science! I'd also love to do one of those sports science & nutrition degrees for the fun of it - but where's the future? Massaging William Fox-Pitt's arsecheeks?

iggy Ideal life scenario? Walk out of my front door, dive for mussels, cook them on the aga. Slaughter a chicken or two. Home ejumakate the kidz. I went to school with this girl (shared a room with her sister actually): www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/feb/21/scotland Now she is living a life I'd love... apart from the whole "nowhere to ride your horse" thing.

"easy ride" badoom tish!

The canteen at work is not yet selling ice lollies. The freezer is bare

ski do a degree in animal behaviour. Then you can combine psychology and science and poniez.

ski I noes where you can do animal behaviour...

I must echo piggy though, I keep considering doing an MA and then realise that I actually just want the initials and could not be fecked with the study malarkey. So I decided to spend the money on a baybee instead. Being a mum is my only clear goal in life at the mo. I might try to pick up more qualies after the family shizz is dealt with, when I want to barge my way to the top and put in the hours that go with it.

There is plenty I would want to retrain from scratch to do - if I have the funds.

So, yeah, what do you actually want to be when you grow up? No point studying for studies sake when you're factoring in all the money shiz. Perhaps you could research your options while on maternity leave, then put in the required time back at work to not owe them a fortune, then make the leap?

forgot to say loved obem this week. The polo yard/arctic driving momma was top. My pals would have heart failure just thinking about going near a hoss when with bump let alone looking after a yard full and climbing thru fencing and mixing feed! Loved the opening, oh i shouldnt be touching this and shiz!

ski I actually think Animal Behaviour would be a v. good one! Good suggestion cunty - but if you wanna do maths/ physics - then go for it - you can always be an academic! Or you can do teacher training... there are also clearly lots of things that a maths/ physics degree would be good for... but maybe think about where you want it to lead you - and work back to which degrees you could do to get you there?

I would like to ride poniez

house sale verbally agreed!

I wanna be a pathologist!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yey caspar!!!!!

Fanks cunty! (nice smelly job you're after)

I wanna be a stage/set/costume designer.

Or an animal behaviourist (will be so if ski actually does this)

But I'll keep me crippled body at a desk instead

In many cases, dead people are much more interesting than alive people

Sure you don't want to be an interior designer? Nice use of clean, white space demonstrated a couple of posts ago...

I wanna be a paperback writer.

ski MrP went back to uni in his 30s. he was Corporate Man in the 90s, then chucked it in after his divorce from his first [spit] wife [spit], got a loan and did a PhD. Now a brainy professor-type.

I would say you have to be really clear on your goals at the end of it all before doing something mental like that. When I met him he was a destitute student living in a bedsit, so it can be quite a tough thing to go through. (Didn't stop me chucking in my job, moving into said bedsit, and marrying him! I love that our marriage certificate gives his occupation as Student.)

I think you possibly want a lifestyle change, which may not necessarily take the form of doing a degree. Why don't you try renting a run-down place in the country - there's loads around here!

Well done curls! You on the champers yet?

I'm not sure a sarcastic interior designer has much earning potential

Pony lovely idea, but again - doesn't pay the bills does it?

I do want a lifestyle change but at the same time I need to flex my brain so I need to figure out which direction it has to be in. Academia is very appealing though as per your hubby.

cunty I could see you doing that! (pathologist I mean)

Animal Behaviour/Equine Science would be fun but I'm not sure it really leads anywhere. E.g., at my uni the equines (haw-haw) were told that there were up to 4 positions a year which came available for them - and all equine graduates across the country. Not good odds. Of the girls I'm still in touch with, one is an estate agent, one works for the MOD and the third works in a bar in Pennsylvania. I do (as an engineer) more horsey stuff than any of them.

iggy tbh I don't have much experience on the essay front as most of my coursework was maths/programming based so only had to bang out the odd essay on engineering principles and the like which was a piece of piss.

I think part of the problem is that I feel like I need someone to say "you can do this" - but after the momental fuck-ups demonstrated during my previous education I doubt I'd have any backers... except my nuclear physicist (and previous Tory candidate) uncle!

How do you figure out what it is you need/want to do though? Eeny-meeny-miny-mo ?

ski veterinary physiotherapy? Masses of earning potential with race horses, speshul dogs etc.

pony I ordered pizza to celebrate. We actually took a lower figure than we wanted, but will be worth it if it all goes through in good time before bubs arrives. Now to find a decent rental that will take pets and a baby... not going to be easy based on research thus far. Hey ho. I love my house, but we've been trying to sell for so long that it's got to the just "get rid" stage. I bet I miss it and all the things i've done to make it my own when I'm in the next Casper home.

curly I may well order a prospectus from your lot for a browse... As for the house that's wonderful news! I've heard a lot of deals are falling through I'm wondering if it might be worth you putting on a little extra pressure to exchange asap! Is there any way like in Scotland for example that you can insist they "show you the money" now rather than later - you know, don't let them fuck you over for 5 months whilst they try and get a mortgage agreed.

I don't miss my house at all. I sold it within 2 weeks of putting it on the market and I just "wanted rid". Because I was unhappy there towards the end I don't feel bad about it at all.

ski we're pushing for an exchange 2-3 weeks before completion, so we can feel safe when entering to the rental agreement. Our agent has already got proof of their mortgage approval - and they are first time buyers. So it's chain free at both ends and there's no reason why we can't complete in six weeks {ideal world and all that!) I do feel uneasy about this being an Englandshire sale cause I love the Scottish system where you can't pull our for the Hell of it half way down the line. I could be celebrating properly now if I was up there.

I'll send you some info in other place before I get outed.

Hello, all, would love to say lots to catch up with y'all, but I am fucking shagged. (Can I say that here without people tutting?) I have done a 9-5 day in the office with 1 and a half hours parked on the M4 at each end. Only half an hour for lunch. Now my brain aches. What people don't appreciate is, like anything, flying is so easy when you know how. 16 weeks pregnant though, is no time to be trying to start a new job. Gah, I hate offices!

So briefly; Switty chin up girl, (I'm not the huggy type.) Hopefully it will all just turn out to be the first thing in a lifetime of things children do to scare us shitless.

Rots tis me! I need to get a new pic. I look fat in that one . Yar, like I don't look fat now!

Pony twas at Tilstock. Looking at their website now though, OH's mate is off their chart - both height and weight!

Cas congrats! Now panic at all the packing (Baaaad memories of trying to pack up our rented house single handedly having just had a C section and OH couldn't help because he was busy trying to make sure new house had electricity and water! None of that this time round, thank you!)

Ski gawd knows what you could do. But while riding neddies is nice, it sure don't pay much. Perhaps better to find a job that earns you stack loads of cash and do less of it, thus having lots of time to play with ponies? I am sure something maths-y would fit that bill, but my cousin and a friend both do equine physio and seem to make a pretty pay packet. And get to gossip about ponies all day.

Okidoke. Off to slump now.

Curly Very wise and all sounds positive! When I sold up in Belgium they have a very similar situation to Scotland - the first paper is signed asap (that week) then there are 4 months to complete. If either party backs out they must pay a 10% forfeit. I just wanted their signature becuase I could see prices dropping and knew even if they backed out I'd still get my 10% which would've offset a drop (one hopes!). Seriously, no regrets about selling - note for self for future: Do not buy detatched cottage in sub-alpine climate - I paid over 7k in heating bills yet perversely was always fucking cold.

pandy I'm not sure about the horses. I trained as a barefoot trimmer and it was really hard physical work - plus clients are arseholes which is probably a given.

I might just be having a hormonal wobble. Today I'm applying for a job in Norway which is different to what I do now but that I'm very capable of doing.

Was everyone more tired than me last night then? Where have you all gone?

Ski are you some kind of serial traveller? My brother has permanently itchy feet and has lived in about 10 different countries all over the world - is currently avoiding the mafia in Moscow, but has lived in the Netherlands too. near Utrecht - he says he doesn't like England. OTOH, I love it, and much prefer my foreign countries is short bursts!

Foot trimming is very hard work though, much harder than standing up to treat your horses. My cousin broke her back in 5 places in a slow rotational fall before she started her physio training, but it doesn't seem to wear her out (mind you, she is bonkers, so you probably couldn't tell anyway.) I am exhausted after just putting studs in my horse's shoes. Couldn't imagine working in that position. (Sudden weird and unwanted image of Ski bending over popped into my head. What did you go and do that for? )