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I worked a fourteen hour day yesterday – doing hog roasts at two separate events. The first one was a gathering of the “Essex Hogs Chapter” of the Harley Davidson biker’s club and i managed to get the van bogged just outside the farm where it was happening!

The boss had told me the job was in a village called Matching Tye, about thirty five miles from the depot.  But when i went to pick up the van and the pig yesterday morning it turned out it wasn’t in Matching Tye at all. After a bit of confusion we worked out it was in a village called Much Hadham, a different place altogether – and about ten miles further away. The boss had printed out directions from Google – which, of course, are no use when you’re driving, as you can’t keep stopping to read the next step of the directions. And the last few stages of the route were missing off the bottom anyway! … Read more »

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I’m starting to feel like my time in Afghanistan is coming to an end – for now, at least. I’m off to England for another month’s break in about ten days and i’m contemplating not coming back to Kabul.

I’m not a city person and i feel like i’ve had enough of city life – especially a city a thousand miles away from the nearest beach, with the worst climate outside of Canberra, and where i have very little freedom.

There’s also some doubt about funding for my job after the end of April. My continued employment depends on my organisation signing a contract with a big international organisation for a particular project – and we’ve had no end of trouble with that particular organisation in the past. So it’s pretty certain that when i leave here, in a week and a half, i won’t know if there’s going to be a job for me when i come back. If i come back…

So i’m going to take all my stuff with me just in case.

I’ve applied for a couple of other jobs – in countries with coasts – but my ability to match their selection criteria is borderline, to say the least.

I reckon i’ll know for sure after i’ve been in England for a week or two…

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