Monthly Archives: November 2009

Bart the builder

Bart the builder


Working last week as a landscaper was quiet fun! i needed to get out of the office cause i was getting bored and fed up sitting behind a desk all day & too long! even though i have plenty to do. Tomorrow and wednesday ill still be helping but on thursday and friday i’ll be in the office again finishing & continuing projects. i should work once or twice a week for phil to get out more and then the rest of the week in the office! great idea, ill ask haha!

first day! picking up stones (chips they call them here i believe).
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and then this is what we made
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ben ik de enige die nog noooit van boom chirurgen (tree surgeons) gehoord heeft?
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then after a day of hard work phil and i went to some random shop to get some cookies. and look what i found (again, since they had them in norway this summer too.) i bought it even though it was 7 degrees outside or so :p. its a bit of a family thing. they’ll understand.
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and i tought myself on saturday how to drive a mini dumper & mini digger :D . ah…. i forgot to mention. the first day me and lachy (je zegt lacky) went out in the field and i had to drive a quad bike. it was very cool cause it was a big field and there where no animal obstacles ;) .
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waiting for raab who is sitting in the mini digger. when the mini dumper got full i had to drive around the house and ‘dump’ the dirt in the trash. very fun & new experience.

saturday i worked till 1 and had vaulting after. vaulting wasnt too bad. i feel like i need more horse training. training in the gym is going really well though. feeling myself improve. now i need to use it on the horse and just keep training.

saturday night we had a real fun night out. when i go out i like to enjoy the good music. it hasnt been that great the last times we where out. i had a lot of fun but i just missed the good music. this weekend is was alot better and i enjoyed myself so much more. so we have to remember that place.. haha.

sleepy time for bartcardi
hope everyone is ok.:)

groetekes

2 month anniversary!

2 month anniversary!

balloons

a toast! the 7th of august i left my country proud and stout! 2 months later im still alive and ready for some more!

this month will end the 2 months of not earning any money. tomorrow i will help phil out on a job. i have no idea what i will have to do but it involves some muscle power which is good! he will probably need my help a couple of days (lets hope so!) and then i’m hoping to finish a website which will provide me of some more money! thumbs up for me cause i’m already spending it in my mind haha.

last week one german left and another one arrived! wenn dein deutsch gut ist kannst du alischa’s blog auch reden! niet dat mijn duits zo goed is hoor :p. i had to google it up a little bit.

i believe this was on thursday. i found some sparklers (sterretjes :D !) and if you put your shutter speed really slow on a professional camera you get something like this. je weet wel de klik die je hoort als je een foto maakt? als je je camera lang open laat staan dan krijg je dit. dus vanaf het moment dat je klikt op de knop van de camera en dan een seconde of 8 later laat sluiten: _MG_1620_MG_1625_MG_1623_MG_1624_MG_1621_MG_1626

we need some more practice but its a nice first try!

friday the water pressure was decreasing… phil went to have a look if there was something wrong with the water pipes. what seemed to be was that another landscaping company tried to build a pond and hit the main water pipe of this area.. (easiest way to build a pond obviously) so the next day we where out of water. and no its not that nice not having a shower after vaulting.. during the day it was ok. but around 10 at night the horses missed there water as wel. so we where running around with buckets of water, giving the horses there daily needs. then at 11 or so, a big truck with a tank of water (16000 liter) filled up every tank. then on sunday i had a nice warm shower again! the end. haha. too bad though because we wanted to have a fun night out on saturday which now we didnt. we did watch a movie instead and it was alright.

training vanavond maar niet zo’n zin.
in verband met spierpijn van gister,
geen goed begin.
rijmen vanavond een nieuw gewin.
daar maar mee trainen,
voor dat toekomstig lekkerding.

proost

Disappeared !

Disappeared !

So, where were we….

last two weeks ive been pretty busy doing work for phil, and starting up with other projects. My website is online for the one who’s interested! www.thedutchdesigner.com. So spread the word! haha. Training hasn’t been great last 2 weeks. dont remember what happened two weeks ago.. but last week Neil was over! I had so much fun. Could do it over and over again. i’ve got some photo’s of saturdays halloween but i think Neil agrees on me by not putting them online haha. So if you want to see them….. fly over haaaa!

hope family and friends are doing good! next week some more photos. cant be bothered putting some online right now to be honest :p. training in a couple of minutes. a proper one!

groetjes vanuit schotland,
McFly