REGRETS #1

Time for a series I guess.

I do this when I have nothing to gripe about or interesting things to share.

Chatting with Tony and Richard last weekend we agreed that it's no good going through life regretting about the choices you've made in careers, living conditions and wealth acquisition. No, relationships, friends and family are far more important and therein lies true wealth.

Last night while watching an episode of The Sopranos I thought about some of the things that I would have liked to have done (and may still do).

Here is the first of them:

Drive a ride-on mower.

I've never driven one of these. The largest lawn area I have ever owned was at our Christchurch house and I used to use a motor mower which took a couple of hours as there were several different lawn areas. I once floated the idea past The Old Girl - I guess you've heard that expression "flew like a lead balloon".

When working under stress at various jobs I would gaze out of the window imagining what it would be like to have a job driving a ride-on lawnmower.

The simplicity of it and the clearly defined work area really appealed then and it still does now.

Maybe one day ........