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Who am I? Is this the same as the question to which the answer is 42? In my case the answer could be 65, but the question is the same.
I am male, English, married with 2 children, who've both left home (amicably). We have 2 grandsons,  1 cat  and 1 car. I am a redundant, now retired, farm worker, sorry agricultural craftsman by default, not design. These are the facts, so to the history.
I was born in Kent in 1942, (it was quite noisy then, so I'm told) I was raised in the village of Hawkinge and after an unremarkable education at The Harvey Grammar School, where I fluked 5 'O' levels  I gained an apprenticeship with the Handley Page aircraft company in Cricklewood, N.W. London and later, Radlett, St Albans. A shy 16 year old country boy, dumped in the big city, I was totally miserable and, though I stuck with it, I grossly under achieved and finished with no additional qualifications. I was very glad to return home with the offer of a job with Skyways Coach Air at Lympne, Ashford airport where I spent 6 very happy years. I married Thelma  during this time and gained a huge family of in-laws, including a mother-in-law who thought the sun shone from my rear. It couldn't last! Well the marriage did but the job didn't. I found myself assembling folding seats for a motor caravan firm in Folkestone. What a nightmare! No wonder the motor industry in this country was crippled by strikes. No-one should have to suffer such boredom. I stayed a year, often skiving off after lunch because I couldn't face another minute at that bench.
Then the in-laws came to my rescue. Thelma's eldest brother was foreman at Swanton farm, and offered me a temporary job as tractor driver / fitter and though I'd often derided agricultural engineers,  (Big 'Ammer--Blunt Chisel) I leapt at the chance, thinking it might be a bit of a giggle 'til something better came along.
That was over thirty years ago, now I've been made redundant! As it turned out, not such a bad thing now I've become accustomed to early retirement.
Hobbies? They come and go. Amateur radio, call sign G4MIX, I was very keen, I liked C.W. (morse code) and tried building and modifying equipment. I had to because I couldn't afford the fancy shop bought gear (lousy wages). Now I just use 2 metres and 70cm F.M. to keep in touch with friends. I'm also secretary of the Hilderstone Radio & Electronics Club, a job that was sort of thrust on me but one that I've come to enjoy (mainly). It's quite a change from the manual labour of agriculture anyway!
I have bought a little motorbike (re-born rocker  ) so now I cruise the local highways and byways, but no longer terrorize anybody at all.
I had a bit of a fling with photography, I bought a cheap, Russian S.L.R. and thought I was David Bailly for a while. I still have the camera, a bag full of lenses and filters and some of the artistic pretentions but I couldn't afford the processing (lousy wages). Now I have this computer thing ( thanks to my son ) and a digital camera so I,ve a hard drive full of pictures of my garden
For the last few years I've returned to my love of flying. As a boy I enjoyed model aircraft and have dabbled off and on all my life. I currently have four or five radio controlled models in various states of repair but mending them is half the fun, so I'm told, and you can only fly one at a time. I've also taught my Grandson to fly but he's more interested in R/C off road cars.
So that's me, I may have answered my original question,but only a tiny part of it. Perhaps my watered down Christianity, or my confused thoughts on telepathy and the un-tapped resources of the brain or my enjoyment of comic sci-fi or just what someone described as my robust laughter  say more about me than a silly potted history of a very ordinary life.
Or perhaps the answer is 42! Now what was the question??
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Oct 4, 2003
In my teens and early twenties I had a few strange  experiences which I could only explain as either extremely complex co-incidences or telepathy . I'd almost forgotton how it felt to share, on a fairly random basis, someone elses thoughts and emotions . I was surprised to find very little comment about this phenomenom in the Guide.
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Jul 11, 2000
I'm a bit ambivalent about harvest. I should dread the thought of working 14 hours a day, hate the excruciating boredom of driving up and down, up and down and curse the possibility of mechanical breakdown that will have me getting hot and dirty. Yet, somehow I can't help getting caught up in the excitement of it all. It's the culmination of our years work. It can be ruined by the weather. A field that has looked terrific all year, can be a bitter disappointment, another may exceed your wildest expectations. At the end, though, you feel as though you've wiped the slate clean, ready for a better effort next season.
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Senior moments
Jun 16, 2000
As the years pass inexorably by, I find that those small lapses of concentration become more frequent and more embarrassing. My latest on-going problem is with web-site suffixes. I'm always confusing .com with .co.uk and sites that should be .org turn out to be .net. The last straw was when I was telling everyone about my first try at my own site, I got MY suffix wrong. So my web-site is:- www.qsl.net/g4mix. What a plonker!!!!
Back to Work
May 22, 2000
Here we go then. After 8 weeks of freedom, limited only by minor mobility problems, I'm back on the old treadmill. It could have been worse, at least I've been riding in the air conditioned, sound proofed, air sprung seated comfort of the old John Deere. I've caught up with all my mates on ham radio, listened to a couple of plays on the BBC,Oh and I've planted about 25 hectares of potatoes.
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Skills
Feb 16, 2000
I heard a report earlier in the week about how good people are at their work. It seems that if you think you are good at what you do you are probably not but conversely, if you think you are not particularly skilful you probably are. The problem I have with this is, that once you have read this report, you may be influenced to think the opposite of what you thought before you read the report and suddenly become more (or less) good at what you do!
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