Thread: What do you like ?

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

After tomorrow I am hoping to be able to start thinking about taking up more hobbies again,although to start with have ordered a nice long hot summer to just laze & enjoy,at 63 & after working at the local vets for 40 years I am retiring & a day later at 66 hubby is joining me..... I am going to do an odd Saturday morning to help cover sickness & hols but that is it.
I too have had all sorts of animals here,started with dogs & moggie but when daughter came along gerbils,guinea pigs,rabbits & goldfish joined us & in the middle of it all a horse too now with child well & truly fledged we are left with our five MC's to keep us company & am really looking forward to having more quality time with them,we do show two of them & have made lots of friends doing that,have made friends with forum members & have met up with them & now looking forward to going & staying with one of them plus another coming to visit us again {guess what we talk about a lot of the time} used to do a lot of knitting but when you are getting called back into work all times of the day & night for emergencies plus run a home everything else seems to drop by the wayside,not that I haven't enjoyed my work but have to say that the last couple of years have been a lot easier as our out of hours work has been taken over by another surgery,it is rather nice knowing that you won't be got out of a snug warm pit at 2am on a blowy wet freezing night but going to be even nicer not having to have an alarm clock running our life . I do like walking so hoping to do more of that {as long as there is a coffee shop on route} hubby has his allotment & no doubt will spend even longer trying to make us live the good life. Daughter lives up on the Welsh/Shropshire border & except for the week we helped move her up there the weather has always been anti towards us so this year if forecast is good we are going to put all cats in car {she has a big cat pen} & just head off so we can do & see the things that are that much nicer when the sun shines on you......
Watch this space who is to say what will happen in the next year,I find at this stage of life you can't think the world is your oyster but hopefully we will still discover a small pearl or two along the next step of our route but as long as it includes a MC furry or two,three,four,five I will be a happy contented person......x

Aw you seem to have earned your retirement jckkerrison and I hope it is a happy one for you x. 40 years in the vets is truly wonderful and I bet you have seen some sorry cases as well as some miraculous ones. Can imagine getting up at all the wee hours to tend to sick animals, now its time to relax in your bed !! lol You certainly have had your share of animals. Am I reading right you have a mare in foal ? I can testify to how hard work that can be !! lol But superb when baby is born.

I can concur with the coffee shop stops with the walking, there is nothing better that to stop for a cuppa on a nice walk ! lol Is the allotment your hubby has nearby ? Should I be calling you Barbara and Tom !! lol

I hope the weather allows you to have your road trip this summer, I am holding out hope against hope that we have a decent summer this year so I can spend more time at the horses, not always riding (cos thats only 5%, 95% is looking after them lol). Your daughter lives in a lovely part of the country but I understand that the weather can be erratic, a little weather system of its own ! lol Does your daughter have MC's to ?

So does showing take you out and about alot ? I have only been to one cat show, that is where I saw a MC for the first time. It certainly left an impression thats for sure. Must make a point of going to more it was definitely somewhere I could spend a whole day without realising where the time went to !

So come on spill where you have booked your time in the sun !

You are definately the proof of the pudding that friends can be found on forums and though our animals and I am so pleased to hear that you have found friends this way. It just goes to show how you can meet like minded people through the internet that years ago you would never have had the chance to talk to and to meet.

Thanks so much for posting it has been so interesting to read about a bit of your life and how hard you have worked for all babies that have come into your life x