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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Backinwellies on June 26, 2013, 09:14:02 pm
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How many hats did you wear today?
I've lost count ............. includes cleaner, vet, mother, farmer, friend, counsellor, exam marker, gardener, cook, launderer, .... about time I put wife hat on and ring my OH!
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I'm just wearing my holiday-maker hat atm, although I did have my chauffer hat on for part of the day.
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livestock mangers hat , then chef , then chauffer, Computer Repair Technician, tourist guide ::)
Milk maid :roflanim: dog walker then Chef again for the BBQ ohh and barman
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Poo picker ( hen houses and yard from dogs and cat tray ) then dog walker- chef and waitress for breakfasts then caterer for lunch boxes - rally driver ( getting to work along A1 ) theatre nurse and intensive care nurse- pharmacist( all animal ) - Samaritan ( some people just need to let it all out )
Rally driver on second section ( going home )
Lady of leasure for an hour :love: then gardener
Chauffeur and mother. Football coach. launderer ( does ironing for 2 hours come under that! ) waitress again
Dog groomer and trainer then story teller ( kids bedtime )
Finally lady of leisure being waitress on by OH
Easy day today :D
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Mostly cleaner - pity I'm so rubbish at it (three days in, I'm still cleaning my kitchen - easily distracted)
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I had my ladies that lunch hat on lol! Went for a lovely walk along the canal into town with my sister and we went to pub for lunch! Plenty to do before then though! - walking dogs, letting poulty out, turning pony and goats out, mucking out, getting son ready for school, dropping him off at school....then I was freeeee! lol
Helen
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Look like rain hat today :raining: amoungst all the others ...... better get animal husbandry tech hat on quick before it starts!
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I find my first hat is poo picking one and animal feeding hat, then its cleaning and loads of little DIY jobs......errrrrrrr, I am so bad at NOT reading labels, I bought some foam filler and just sprayed it in a hole we had made to inspect a void....blinking stuff went all over my husbands top and my hands are now sticking to the keys...so I shall now spend a while getting it all off......later its the laundry hat and the business one and of course the dog walking and the logging hat and finally the chef hat and always the TAS hat....Oh and
Mostly cleaner - pity I'm so rubbish at it (three days in, I'm still cleaning my kitchen - easily distracted)
Ditto Helen :wave:
not forgetting the cake and coffee hat!!
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Cake and coffee hat................... my favourite hat...... must dust it off
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One hat less for me today , the lollipop lady hat is in storage for the summer holidays :excited: but as you all know that means today its :raining:
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Well, that takes some separating of a blurred me but here goes for yesterday as the latest complete day ;)
Animal keeper - first rounds
Teacher/broadcaster - show sent (second attempt) through audio files to be considered/edited for next webcast
Foal's bum scratcher - well qualified and experienced one!
Highland pony breeder - breeding related checks of mares served, due etc and stallion
Groundsperson - ragwort pulling in empty paddock, weeding in orchard/veg garden
Author - completed short story and posted to recipient. Began edit of 20 complete chapters of novel, began 21st, in a very small way just to get going
Novice panicking hen keeper - loose chick, escaping hen, disastrous move of broody, hen and remaining eggs as one tried to hatch, subsequently rejected and died despite multiple attempts with the hen, rest of eggs abandoned (later checked and 3 dead in various stages of development, rest dud eggs)
Sales rep - egg sales at the door
Therapist - ditto
Book-keeper - ditto
Researcher - online variety
Last minute customer and her chauffeur - dash to shops/library when out of milk and with 4 books due back that day, library half hour from closing and tyres soft after nearly a week since previous use ::)
Animal keeper (last rounds & egg hunt/collection)
Sole resident office assistant, cook, laundress and dishwasher (minimal roles)
Insomniac
Housekeeper/cleaner got the day off, she's very part time
Best I can do - I have other roles but not yesterday, flippin chooks took over and not in a good way :chook:
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landlord, gardener, personal shopper, midwife (new foal) mother, taxi driver, hospital escort, secretary, milkmaid, goose herder :excited:
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Domestic goddess ( cleaned the house) :-J
Poultry keeper ( let out, fed, watered, cleaned out chickens ) :chook:
Entertainment manager ( throwing the toy for the dog) :roflanim:
Tour Gide ( showing friends round our new house & garden) :excited:
Shop keeper ( managed to sell some herb & veg plants and some eggs) :excited:
Gardener ( I hate weeding)
Head chef ( cooked tea , supervised while OH made pudding )
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I only wear one hat, have to for I've become a bit photosensitive in my dotage and easily get sun burnt .. it's made in Vietnam & is called a Pith Hat .
I can do anything whilst wearing it but because I'm zapped most folk try to take the pith out of me when I wear it . :roflanim:
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Today is a rain hat...... :gloomy:
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Grumpy sleepy head hat when woken TOO GODDAMNED early this morning :rant:
Livestock feeder
Water trough filler
Gardener
Beekeeper
Driver
Osteopath
Secretary
Photographer
IT consultant
Product researcher
Pigs herdsman (slapmarking)
Dinner lady