What a year!

[Will C]

I’m not posting for sympathy I don’t need it, I’m posting to share an experience that may help others or create a few laughs!

 

I will start mid June last year, home life hadn’t been great for a while, then I was told 3 times in a week if you don’t like it you can leave and I don’t want this anymore. The last time I replied with I think your right and it was done. 
 

I brought my now ex wife out of our small woodland where we lived off grid ( with some help from family helping with the mortgage side of things)

 

I genuinely thought I wanted to stay on the Isle of Wight that had been home for 14 years, then after a trip up to east Anglia to weld my cousin’s truck up for mot which led to a offer I jumped on. 
I was offered a space to stay for a month to have a break, I couldn’t afford to have a break so I searched on here and spoke to to great people. 
Firstly Larry @Talking Elm Tree Services in Norwich who said he had a few days a week he could give a climber, I was set so I headed up for a month ish. (If you ever get the chance to meet or work with Larry, him and his team are a great bunch who work well with great humour. 
secondly I met Mike who runs The Norfolk Arborist. Who also needed a climber a couple of days a week. Again Mike and his team are a top notch team who do some cracking work.
 

then an idea was floated that maybe I should move back to this part of the country partly because I met a fantastic woman who gets me as we or on the same level of nuts!

I was duly offered a place to stay until I sold my place on the island and brought somewhere else. 
 

As I started to move (7 trips for me and 1 artic low loader!) my truck shat it’s self big time on the A12 towing a loaded trailer! I rebuilt it but had to have so much head work done it uped the compression enough to blow the rings out, the truck was out and I was broke!

shortly after this I tore my rotor cuff big style, I was out, the first few days I couldn’t evan put a t shirt on! Unfortunately I let Mike down with no notice on a big job. 

It took me best part of 6 weeks to anything like recover in this time I looked at other self employed options then a job came up as a fitter and tractor driver, I took it mainly to allow myself time to recover and partly because I wasn’t sure what to do next!

 

since then  my relationship with my lass is good, not bad considering we only went for a pint!

 

Last week we brought a house together after both coming through a divorce with a similar back story and I’m still working at the job split between spanner work and tractor driving doing mainly highways verge mowing and hedge cutting

It’s a funny world, just when life covers you in shit the sun is shining on the other side!

 

I miss the trees but life is good. Thankyou to all here, flicking through this place kept my mind occupied in the dark days, I will still drop in but not so much at the moment. 
 

Cheers Will. 

 

[Stubby]

10 minutes ago, Will C said:

I’m not posting for sympathy I don’t need it, I’m posting to share an experience that may help others or create a few laughs!

 

I will start mid June last year, home life hadn’t been great for a while, then I was told 3 times in a week if you don’t like it you can leave and I don’t want this anymore. The last time I replied with I think your right and it was done. 
 

I brought my now ex wife out of our small woodland where we lived off grid ( with some help from family helping with the mortgage side of things)

 

I genuinely thought I wanted to stay on the Isle of Wight that had been home for 14 years, then after a trip up to east Anglia to weld my cousin’s truck up for mot which led to a offer I jumped on. 
I was offered a space to stay for a month to have a break, I couldn’t afford to have a break so I searched on here and spoke to to great people. 
Firstly Larry @Talking Elm Tree Services in Norwich who said he had a few days a week he could give a climber, I was set so I headed up for a month ish. (If you ever get the chance to meet or work with Larry, him and his team are a great bunch who work well with great humour. 
secondly I met Mike who runs The Norfolk Arborist. Who also needed a climber a couple of days a week. Again Mike and his team are a top notch team who do some cracking work.
 

then an idea was floated that maybe I should move back to this part of the country partly because I met a fantastic woman who gets me as we or on the same level of nuts!

I was duly offered a place to stay until I sold my place on the island and brought somewhere else. 
 

As I started to move (7 trips for me and 1 artic low loader!) my truck shat it’s self big time on the A12 towing a loaded trailer! I rebuilt it but had to have so much head work done it uped the compression enough to blow the rings out, the truck was out and I was broke!

shortly after this I tore my rotor cuff big style, I was out, the first few days I couldn’t evan put a t shirt on! Unfortunately I let Mike down with no notice on a big job. 

It took me best part of 6 weeks to anything like recover in this time I looked at other self employed options then a job came up as a fitter and tractor driver, I took it mainly to allow myself time to recover and partly because I wasn’t sure what to do next!

 

since then  my relationship with my lass is good, not bad considering we only went for a pint!

 

Last week we brought a house together after both coming through a divorce with a similar back story and I’m still working at the job split between spanner work and tractor driving doing mainly highways verge mowing and hedge cutting

It’s a funny world, just when life covers you in shit the sun is shining on the other side!

 

I miss the trees but life is good. Thankyou to all here, flicking through this place kept my mind occupied in the dark days, I will still drop in but not so much at the moment. 
 

Cheers Will. 

 

Good story Will . ( I have been in a similar situation mate ) Hope your life continuous to shine .  

[Dan Maynard]

Nice air conditioned tractor cab sounds like a great place to be right now!

[Steven P]

Some people would have looked at the lot you were being dealt and moaned, given up... some would look at it like you have as an opportunity and the universe giving you a hint... sounds like things are only going to get better and better.

[Steve Bullman]

Well done for getting through, and welcome to east anglia!

[Will C]

9 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Well done for getting through, and welcome to east anglia!

Cheers, I’m on the Norfolk/lincs/cambs border. 

[AHPP]

4 minutes ago, Will C said:

I’m on the Norfolk/lincs/cambs border

Whether you wanted sympathy or not, you have mine. 

[sime42]

Good to have you back Will. That's a life affirming story. Glad it's all worked out for you. 

[Steve Bullman]

2 hours ago, Will C said:

Cheers, I’m on the Norfolk/lincs/cambs border. 

That’s basically up tut north 

[Mark J]

Keep ahad, Will.