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.