Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
Oh yes, it does!
Not only was I wrong in thinking I was done with paperwork for a while (or “paperwork”, I suppose, seeing it is actually on a flash drive) but the task I was given has a distinct tang of citrus about it.
New job – sort out the database. I use the term loosely. It’s nearly 500 addresses. Four hundred are in alphabetical order by forename and the other 100 have merely been written in as we obtained them. I used it last week and found that we had 48 emails returned as undeliverable.
I have removed some, corrected others and after wasting several hours I now have a list of addresses that are probably accurate. They are, however, still sorted in a most peculiar way…
On a more interesting note we have done bark rubbings, picked apples, seen the new Polish bantams (hatched from our own hatching eggs by a local school in July) and carried on the preparations for the Education Tent at Flintham Ploughing Match (though we’re monitoring rainfall in case it gets rained off).
We also have a mystery on our hands, having had three birds delivered on Saturday and only having two in the run by Monday. We’re either looking for fox with opposable thumbs, a bantam with a shovel or a Chicken Rustler. Chicken Rustling is uncommon round here, but as the other two are close to impossible I’m having to follow Conan Doyle ( “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”) and put up a Wanted poster.
Julia with camera-shy Polish bantam
Hope you get your chicken back!
It’s probably off sailing with Lord Lucan on the Mary Celeste…
Horrible admin task. You might like the photos in this one: http://derrickjknight.com/2014/09/18/a-ploughing-contest/
Yes, I did like them. I have mixed feelings about horses as my dad was cornered by one when working on a farm and my grandfather was nearly killed when one of his gun horses kicked him in the chest in 1917. I like to see them but I prefer to work with machines. 😉
Thanks, Quercus. I imagine this was not the Flintham one you referred to
No, but they are generally held within a few weeks of each other and sometimes only a few miles apart.
You may have learned that we lived in Newark from ’87 to ’06
I knew you’d been round the area because of your Averham theatre post and the racing. 😉
🙂