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Garfield Esq		#1 Posted : 14 January 2013 22:18:38(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Hitting a low at present. Brick wall syndrome. Bemused. Bewidered. Any ideas on how to cheer myself up?
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damelcfc		#2 Posted : 15 January 2013 08:03:51(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Start drinking again if your on the wagon for January and book a holiday to look forward to.
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KieranD		#3 Posted : 15 January 2013 08:33:44(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Become a Safety Champion, leading improvements in a context with scope for your talents - if you don't, how should others follow you into bemusement and bewilderment? PM me with your email address if you'd like to receive a copy of a practical (free) guide of cost-free practical ways to refresh your professional practice with vision and energy - and without drugs of any kind, including alcohol or nicotine.
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JJ Prendergast		#4 Posted : 15 January 2013 08:37:22(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Yes, very fed up. However a mortgage to pay, kids to feed etc etc Could think of far better things to do with my life ....
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walker		#5 Posted : 15 January 2013 08:45:32(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Garfield Gets us all from time to time Worse at this time of the year - cold short daylight hours which you, being in the far north, have in spades. Holiday somewhere warm does it for me. Her indoors & myself always have our main holiday in jan/feb Next week a nice cold beer will be my main priority.
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Steveeckersley		#6 Posted : 15 January 2013 09:26:49(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		Nice simple method to get out of the rut of H&S - RETIRE! Just like I am 5 weeks time! Good luck Guys!
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walker		#7 Posted : 15 January 2013 09:30:49(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Steveeckersley wrote: Nice simple method to get out of the rut of H&S - RETIRE! Just like I am 5 weeks time! Good luck Guys! Thats it -go on! : rub our noses in it
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ExDeeps		#8 Posted : 15 January 2013 09:34:53(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Garfield, Looking at where you are have you considered you might be suffering from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder - I think). I realised just under a year ago that I was always very low in Jan/Feb and so bought one of those trendy, hippy medicine SAD light boxes. I now use it while chomping down my breakfastand I am honestly impressed with the results, speaking as a sceptical non believer in all that chrystals, yogic meditation happy clappy stuff..... Jim
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chris42		#9 Posted : 15 January 2013 10:17:04(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		“Brick wall syndrome” seems more like you are not having problems with H&S but with other people. Perhaps it is SAD from above, but “Safety Avoidance Disorder”. Go hug a tree, it will not do any good, but the men in white coats may come and take you away for a little holiday.
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SW		#10 Posted : 15 January 2013 13:23:37(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Yes I feel the same as you. I think it is my mid life crisis - just hit 41 (Mentally 20, physically 60!) and thinking that I really need to get a shuffle on and try and get a job closer to home (But nothing in S Wales or very little) Although job is secure for the next 6 months I won't hold out much hope after that. I do like my job though. Now in two minds about changing career and studying something else but unsure what as nothing is tickling my fancy. Just feel so "blurrghh" at the moment so may try one of those light box things previously mentioned. Then lots of lager if that fails.
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Ian Harper		#11 Posted : 15 January 2013 15:49:15(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		I bought a small holding and got into farming. You think safety is bad, the AML2 pig movement order and associated legislation made me get back into safety pretty quick. I have to local bee inspector visit as well and its against the law for me to have a compost heap. Labelling for honey, right ink for date stamping eggs, blah, blah blah.
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Victor Meldrew		#12 Posted : 15 January 2013 16:49:27(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Blimey Ian - sounds awful - it appears that similar to H&S, its 'job creation'.
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Ian Harper		#13 Posted : 15 January 2013 22:17:06(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		On the positive side I can buy proper creosote!
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walker		#14 Posted : 16 January 2013 08:18:56(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		ianharper wrote: I bought a small holding and got into farming. You think safety is bad, the AML2 pig movement order and associated legislation made me get back into safety pretty quick. I have to local bee inspector visit as well and its against the law for me to have a compost heap. Labelling for honey, right ink for date stamping eggs, blah, blah blah. Bet this doesn't happen in France! I'd be facinated to hear the reasons for bees/compost conflicts
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John J		#15 Posted : 16 January 2013 08:45:46(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		There isn't one bees regularly nest in compost heaps. However, regulations require compost heaps to have a licence and an environmental risk assessment if the compost heap is within 250 metres of a dwelling or workplace. The penalty for failing to get a licence is a £5,000 fine. It's not really enforced and as most councils encourage composting it's a bit of a mix up.
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Ian Harper		#16 Posted : 16 January 2013 18:03:18(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		Can't have a compost heap as potato peelings and veg waste might come into contact with meats in the kitchen and be eaten by the free range chickens. If I don't have free range chickens I can compost or not compost items that have been in the kitchen. Fear of disease spread and a European thing so I imagine the French are enforcing it robustly as well.
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Ron Hunter		#17 Posted : 16 January 2013 22:45:32(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Garfield: I doubt if these Forums would be prescribed as a cure! Steveeckerlsey: You lucky, lucky man!
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Ian Harper		#18 Posted : 17 January 2013 08:10:02(UTC)
Rank: Forum user		Garfield, don't laugh, you could volunteer for IOSH? Meet new people, get about a bit?
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