Thank God I'm Unemployed!
I don't have time for a job44 total reviews
Comment from trumby
This sounds like a normal day on a form. People who live in the city have no idea what goes on with farm life.
Women all want to marry a "country man", but they don't realize that a "hard-working country man", really is a "hard-working country man." even when he lives on a hobby farm.
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2015
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This sounds like a normal day on a form. People who live in the city have no idea what goes on with farm life.
Women all want to marry a "country man", but they don't realize that a "hard-working country man", really is a "hard-working country man." even when he lives on a hobby farm.
Comment Written 29-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2015
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Thank you! You must have been poking around somewhere unusual to stumble across this old piece...
It's amazing that there's always something to do and the list of to-do's always seems to be longer than the list of done's!
Steve
Comment from Sarariman
It's a good poem and I liked some of the rhymes. I'm not into poetry, liking only Kipling, which perhaps says something about this one.
Do I get two cents now, huh?
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reply by the author on 15-Jun-2013
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It's a good poem and I liked some of the rhymes. I'm not into poetry, liking only Kipling, which perhaps says something about this one.
Do I get two cents now, huh?
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Comment Written 15-Jun-2013
reply by the author on 15-Jun-2013
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Yes, you can collect your two member cents - you probably deserve more for digging into the archives to find this poem which I wrote some time ago. I too am a lover of Kipling - if you go back even further in my portfolio you may find a poem called Lafferty's Last Ride which is set in Kipling's era and deals with the life of a British redcoat fighting in India and Africa....
Steve
Comment from Elaine Christie
This didn't need to be explained for I had it sussed! It did flow just the way you wanted it too! I loved it and it made me smile all the way through, now why would anyone think you have nothing to do! lol
reply by the author on 03-Apr-2013
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This didn't need to be explained for I had it sussed! It did flow just the way you wanted it too! I loved it and it made me smile all the way through, now why would anyone think you have nothing to do! lol
Comment Written 01-Apr-2013
reply by the author on 03-Apr-2013
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Thanks, Elaine and welcome to fanStory. I look forward to reading some of your work.
Steve
Comment from Walu Feral
Hahahahahaha! G'day mate, once again you have hit the right note with my sense of humor. I am curently in the philipines visiting the missus and daughter so I have been a bit tardy with reviewing, but I am back online now and got to read this little gem. Well played bother. Cheers Fez.
reply by the author on 10-Mar-2013
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Hahahahahaha! G'day mate, once again you have hit the right note with my sense of humor. I am curently in the philipines visiting the missus and daughter so I have been a bit tardy with reviewing, but I am back online now and got to read this little gem. Well played bother. Cheers Fez.
Comment Written 07-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 10-Mar-2013
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Thanks, Fez.
Lovely people in the Phillipines...
Steve
Comment from Sally Carter
Wonderful! But how the heck did you find time to write this gem???
The kind of poem that I love. Funny but sacrificing nothing of quality in word choices and meter. So many places I laughed, I don't know where to begin.
I love SWMBO. Head the phrase but never seen it turned into an acronym.
Chooks in the soup, tanker/...banker, trimming the goats' hooves, chasing the cow, scraping up the chicken poo. It's all superb.
So this kind of life is fun? Steve, you must be much, much younger than me. But it's sure as heck fun to read about.
Thanks for the pleasure of the read.
Sal
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Wonderful! But how the heck did you find time to write this gem???
The kind of poem that I love. Funny but sacrificing nothing of quality in word choices and meter. So many places I laughed, I don't know where to begin.
I love SWMBO. Head the phrase but never seen it turned into an acronym.
Chooks in the soup, tanker/...banker, trimming the goats' hooves, chasing the cow, scraping up the chicken poo. It's all superb.
So this kind of life is fun? Steve, you must be much, much younger than me. But it's sure as heck fun to read about.
Thanks for the pleasure of the read.
Sal
Comment Written 07-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Truth to tell it only took about 15 minutes. Then I put it away for a few days thinking it must be rubbish. Added one more verse and didn't need to change anything else before posting, except to find a fortuitous poster.
SWMBO comes from H Rider Haggard via Rumpole of the Bailey. She has appeared previously in my poems - even got a starring role in one.
Seriously the real list is much longer than this and Social Welfare keep demanding that I go out looking for jobs - I actually have a part-time one at the moment as a census collector.
Fun? Maybe, but I cold do with more mun to go with the fun.
Younger than you - yes, but only a year or two - we are both baby boomers I believe.
I am starting to get together a few poems relating to our move to this place in the country and will look to getting it published as a series in a magazine or something - tentative title 'Round the Block' Lifestyle Block, that is, even though that is a bit grand for our tiny plot.
Can I assume your move is all done and dusted? Hope everything went as well as expected.
Steve
Comment from Cornelius2000
Too much of that list sounds too familiar! Being unemployed by virtue of retirement, I too have a SWMBO list, and have been working on it today. So when I brought you poem up and started reading, my smile of recognition grew and grew. Great fun.
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Too much of that list sounds too familiar! Being unemployed by virtue of retirement, I too have a SWMBO list, and have been working on it today. So when I brought you poem up and started reading, my smile of recognition grew and grew. Great fun.
Comment Written 07-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Thank you.
The list only ever grows longer. Fixed the pump today, but then also had to fix the chainsaw (new addition to the list) and having fixed it means getting firewood is back near the top....
Steve
Comment from Hollyhock
I took a break from lambing to review this and I'm so glad I did. This is so clever and funny and TRUE! I don't know how I ever found time to go out to work, particularly since living on the farm. You have everything sussed, all the well-meaning, the procrastinating, the shrinking hours, and the occasional kick up the backside that we all need!
I was going to say I liked the stanza about the fuel refill the best but in the end I just could not choose, every stanza made me smile. Very well done.
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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I took a break from lambing to review this and I'm so glad I did. This is so clever and funny and TRUE! I don't know how I ever found time to go out to work, particularly since living on the farm. You have everything sussed, all the well-meaning, the procrastinating, the shrinking hours, and the occasional kick up the backside that we all need!
I was going to say I liked the stanza about the fuel refill the best but in the end I just could not choose, every stanza made me smile. Very well done.
Comment Written 07-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Thanks, Andrea - I have had a lot of smiles of recognition, mostly from farming folk.
You had me wondering about the fuel refill.... I was actually talking about water. We are in serious drought here and the $400 was for a small tanker (about 4000 gal) of water. Glimmer of hope on the horizon is a tropical cyclone (Sandra) possibly drifting our way. We don't actually get cyclones here but we do sometimes cop decent rain from ex-cyclones after they have degraded to tropical depressions - never wished for one before and we hated the things when we were in Queensland, but it would be nice if this one brought a few inches of rain this weekend.
Steve
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Sorry for the error. We have had so much rain here it never occurred to me that you would be BUYING same. The [pem is still fantastic!
Comment from dogontherocks
Yes sir Steve. You made me laugh again so I give you my last six star gift to celebrate your pen. Have I told you before that I love your sense of humor?
Well done
Dave
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Yes sir Steve. You made me laugh again so I give you my last six star gift to celebrate your pen. Have I told you before that I love your sense of humor?
Well done
Dave
Comment Written 06-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Yes, I think you may have said that once or twice but I will never tire of hearing it!
Thank you.
Steve
Comment from Debbie7
This is so funny. I loved the rhymes.I was reading it fast and totally cracking up. Haha - She who must be obeyed. Very enjoyable, Debbie
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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This is so funny. I loved the rhymes.I was reading it fast and totally cracking up. Haha - She who must be obeyed. Very enjoyable, Debbie
Comment Written 06-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2013
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Thanks, Debbie. She Who Must be Obeyed is a borrowed phrase )from a great British book/ TV series called Rumpole of the Bailey. They borrowed it humorously from H Rider Haggard who used it seriously about an African Queen in his novel 'She'.
There you go - something trivial and completely worthless to brighten your day.
Steve
Comment from Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
This could be mistaken for an Aussie bloke whingeing, Steve. I'm afraid I have to admit I could identify with a lot of these firm jobs. Great rhyming. Giddy
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2013
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This could be mistaken for an Aussie bloke whingeing, Steve. I'm afraid I have to admit I could identify with a lot of these firm jobs. Great rhyming. Giddy
Comment Written 06-Mar-2013
reply by the author on 15-Mar-2013
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Thanks, Giddy.
I thought it was Poms that were supposed to be whingers...
Steve