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Spent Christmas in Gran Canaria. Reflections. The people here enjoy the best climate in the world. Always between 18 and 26c degrees. They still have huge extended family gatherings in restaurants, babies and ga_ ga geriatrics included. The waiters here kiss children, especially the handicapped. Couple of kids, one with severe autism, and one with Downs, are treated like royalty in my hotel. It's not a show. Its part of their culture. Brilliant imo. The young teenagers gather in large groups and enjoy food and wine. At their age, my generation used to get legless, aggress

Made a rustic meat and potato pie with the leftover smoked shin beef

Ain’t life all a bit like that now though mate ?…..my first motor at 17 was an old Ford D series tipper, I wasn’t allowed to drive it until 18 but I did, no tacho, no VOSA, just avoid the odd ministry check and off you go and earn your living. Then it was Luton vans, that went with VOSA checks etc with a team of nerds looking to rinse you for a few quid and treating you like Pablo Escobar for having 100 kg too much on your arse end…..this is after having got a 70 quid parking ticket or two that day and paying congestion charge or whatever. Then it’s IR35 and everything done on an acc

Roast rolled Breast of Lamb. Cheers Arry

Watched my ole fella bust a gut till he couldn't anymore, spent his last years with a knackered body and eventually a knackered mind, fcuk working till mid seventies. I'll graft away till my youngest is on her feet then I'm packing it in, get myself a little mongrel lurcher as a companion for mooching and fishing and I'll be as happy as a pig in shite. Don't care about money, I'll just get better at being poor.

Chatting with the Mrs,and decided that we will be going to Tenerife for next Xmas,and not have to lift a finger.....kids can have money and blow it in the January sales when we get back ...Im sick of the shite weather and prices at xmas over here

Cheers, D.

The trouble is, works no f***ing fun anymore…..as they have phased out readies and replaced it with rules, regulations, paperwork, pointy nosed nerds and smug uni grads who have a f***ing heart attack at the sight of a twenty pound note it’s just not any fun…..there’s f**k all in it to make it enjoyable. People Don’t deal with people any more, they deal with “a team” made up of utter pricks who happened to be kicking round the organisation doing f**k all and got collared for the job, nobody’s word is their f***ing bond, nobody knows how to behave like proper chaps…..it’s just all so f***i

Size difference between a smaller bunker boat and your average tanker. Bunker boat/barges basically are Mobile gas/lube stations. They carry barges similar to our ,with various lube oils and fuel ab basically just pull up to the ships and give them what they need. They work directly with foreign deck crews and apparently each nationality has its own quirks so apparently With Russians you better know how to cuss someone out and be assertive and not be a baby back bitch because to will try and fight is they think your weak and try to tell them what to do The Indians, nice but language

This is the only bitch I have now but I haven’t done nowt with her.She’s been on a couple of digs and mixed in ok

Don’t you think though that the whole country is now run around these “non job” industry’s like the HSE and all the various bodies just like it ? Im not saying people should work in squalor or risk their life but what happened to just retaining your people by treating them right ?……you don’t need a bloke on 50 large a year driving round telling people how to wash their hands and charging you 700 quid for the honour. That 700 quid is real money out of real work, it ain’t growing on trees…..and that seems to be the way now, various government agency’s just helping themselves at will.

A lot of truth being spoken on this thread gents. It seems that I'm not the only one seeing the world around me turn to rat shit .

Yep, when you visit these places you realise we are living like pigs half the time mate.

Hope everyone has had a good Christmas

That’s the dog that’s going over her mate,I had to give him back to the lad I got him off when I split from the ex

I started slinging a chainsaw for my old man when I was a child cutting right of way for telephone lines.Spent my twenties working 2 full time jobs eating amphetamines.Spent my thirties building myself a small business.Now I'm forty.I work an average of 2 days a week and hunt or fish the other 5 lol.I guess im semi retired.I hope to never fully retire.Just work my 2 days a week till the end.Yall older gentlemen still grinding away have my upmost respect.

Going away for Xmas in 2 years time mate, will be the Mrs 50th on 19th Devember, said to all the family if you want to come we'll be booking early next year to give everyone chance to pay over 2 years...not sure where yet, but like you done with the hassle! We've done Xmas eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day and have friends staying here for New Years Eve.. plus both cottages booked over Xmas, change over today and change over on New Year's Day... its non stop, we've loved having everyone, and like hosting ..but I'm about done now!

When I had thermal for scanning I was amazed how far away rabbits were making for the hedges even with the wind in our favour... Thermal definitely adds another dynamic I enjoyed finding partridge and was amazing how much you see that you can't pick up with the lamp..

Good Job I don't rely on the coin off the bunnies I'd be drawing my dole daily

Yes,really enjoyed it. Took a trip to the botanical garden where there are giant Canarian lizards and an amazing array of tropical flowers and trees. Also went to a marine park with fish,amphibians,reptiles and species of plants and trees from all over the world. Brilliant days out.

I bleed for you guys in shit jobs. And I've done everyone including a spell on the bins. I'm not being male menopausal honestly, or Victor Meldrew,but things have got really bad in the employment world and in the UK in general. It f****n enrages me to see piss in plastic bottles by the side of major roads..truckers brew. Nowhere to stop,have a shower or a decent meal, without some without some office shite hawk tracking their every fart. Thank f**k I'm out of it and retired. There needs to be a complete re _set, so people realise how dependent they are on working people.

Same as me,punched my guts out since leaving school and planned to be semi retired at 50, mortgage free and be able to pick and choose 2/3 days a week for beer money...the rest of my days will hopefully be filled with fishing,mooching and travelling around exploring parts of the UK/Europe in a motorhome with my better half...Im almost there at 45 Im no stranger to graft,can turn my hand to most things...but Im not working away till my 60/70s like some mug...to be f****d physically or only to waste away a few yrs later and be the richest man in the graveyard ..you

Retired at 51 twenty years ago. Came home from abroad and got a couple of allotments and some hens, ducks and quail. Spend a lot of my time out with the dogs or at the allotments. Why on earth work till your an old man and to old to enjoy what’s left of your life ? Cheers.

That's right matey, if you relied on the weather, you'd never get out , never kept me in

I have known too many men that approached retirement with dread. A sad state of affairs but understandable as these were men who from early adulthood had done nothing but graft. No 9 -5, 5 days a week. Working all hours to provide for others. The white working class hetrosexual so often ridiculed and even despised by the modern left wing media. I'm counting the days. One major thing to do first, buy a property in a rural location and then that's me done.

I'm quite fortunate got a couple nice pieces of land that hold good numbers of rabbit, and I only take them with lurchers and ferrets and never feel the need for to play the numbers game

Piece o piss round there

I’ve just bought a house with a few acres so gunna get some livestock

Common sense has gone out the work place (so has a lot of little perks lads had )now it's some university kid with a degree on a power trip with no first hand experience of the job just what they learned in a class room running things that's why I don't do site work feck that and all that comes with it

It's all down to greed peopl getting cion for the bunny's taking loads of guys on and hitting same spots for money spoils everything no thinking of next season

I have never ever seen it as bad around here for rabbit numbers another reason i wont contemplate getting another lurcher. Like has been said disease must be the main factor though i have noticed a big rise in buzzard numbers also the technoligy used now days by shooters at night must be having an impact on numbers were rabbits that had become lamp shy now their is no need to put a lamp on them to get a shot off in darkness.

Glad you enjoyed it mate week before Christmas I spent a week in Costa Teguise in Lanzarote as you say decent climate and people just getting on with enjoying life, it was even warm enough for a swim in the sea you’ve just got to get away from this place sometimes it drags you down with the shit weather and never ending bad news in the media.

Sounds like my sort of ideal day,I am currently sitting on a plane,short flight to Toronto then NYE in NYC.

One thing rabbits just cannot handle, is the wet AND the cold,...combined...... They can take one or the other,...but continuous soaking, day in, day out,...never being able to get dry and warm,.. weakens them terribly....

I think that your depiction of me is a tad unjust. I don't like bullying, even if there's the Atlantic between you. I'm sure the guy can stand up for himself, but as a neutral observer, I am entitled to an opinion on a post. If I'm in the darkie protection brigade you are in Klu klux clan ...nazi division.

Chicken, leek and pancetta pasta tonight, bit of garlic bread

The seasons are all to f**k...the only thing thats consistent is the constant rain...we dont have proper winters/seasons now...the animals and their habits shows us that

I've lucky enough to gave been retired nearly twenty years. I still wake up every morning and think __thank f**k no work today. It wasn't the work that I resented, it was the people. Organisations bring out the worst in people. Crawlers especially. Low life shit with zero sense of dignity or self worth.

Parents aren’t all they are cracked up to be Dodge,but as long as we are the best we can be for our own children then we broke the mould and our consciences are clear,you have a great 2024 ahead of you,be lucky.

I believe we should always look after our own dodge,want her away from the hospitals as soon as..you dont last in them....but yes,shes ok,as far as mother in laws go,my mrs had a rough upbringing but forgave her parents along time ago, unfortunately the same cant be said for her sister...rang her xmas day to tell her about her mums accident....and her words was...'just stick her in a home' I dont have time to deal with it all went down like a fart in a phone box...you can choose your mates....but not your family unfortunately

Great to read is that, my own dad is a waste of time he hasn't even met my two boys almost 7 n 5 and then my mum choosen to spend Christmas day with her boyfriend but offered the kids could could go up for a couple of hours on boxing day so I thought bolloxs to that i want my kids to be around family and experience the atmosphere n Christmas spirit it doesn't matter if a family is big or small plus my sister was doing her own thing with her kids n husband so although I wanted nothing more than to have my boys at Christmas I had no choice but to do what's right for them which was to let my ex h

I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining. Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up. I've been poor , and I really don't like it.

Worked till was 66 self employed last few years as no f****r wants you then. Gardening, Maintenance, Machine driving and work on farms Laying hedges etc and even then customers didn't want me to give up working for them. Retired now and loving it Ferreting, Fishing, Foraging, Metal detecting, Gardening and any thing else I fancy. The only trouble is your body is a bit f****d after years of manual work. Also right now I'm sucked off to the stump with rain and bloody wind Lol. They reckon if you have no interests when you retire life expectancy is just 3 years. Cheers Arry

I think it’s one of those things that’s fantastic if you want to and really sad if you have to. Its nice to have a purpose and to keep your brain ticking over

Turned out bang on lads. Great flavour and it was moist, unlike any turkey I have had before. Homemade gravy with the juices and giblets. Felt like it's all been worth it already. Then to top it off one of the hens is now laying full sized eggs too, Merry Christmas!

I’m 62 and still grafting any old grafters on here ?

You sound refreshed,decent food,sun,and a relaxed environment,glad you enjoyed the break.

Alas I have 2 and still no bunnies