Sometimes you make the bad cut

Come autumn it's time to clean up the garden a little.

It's a good time and it extends all the way through until mid winter. At the end of this time the garden is very very tidy ready for the new growth of spring.

This tidying up involves quite a fair amount of pruning.

Often I am pruning trees that still have fruit on them such as this mandarin. You can see that I had to cut out diseased and infested growth. The Citrus leafminer and black aphids have gone crazy in the late summer growing season and the best thing to do is just take them off.

And here is my metaphor.

Often, in life when I prune sometimes I take things out that I wish I had kept. So as you can see in tidying up my Mandarin for next season I have made a bad cut and sacrificed one of the fruit that was sitting on the tree.

I wish I hadn't done that. Such is life. But sometimes when I make a mistake you I need to plough on. Spilt milk. Sometimes I lose friends in the same way as I lost that mandarin. That's always a sad thing for me. Sometimes it's only a close call - let off with a warning.

Roll away the stone

https://youtu.be/0W9JsskFVSo

A good Easter to my Orthodox friends who have the same story as my other Christian friends and family - it seems to be just a matter of dates.

Dreams of being back in an old job

My greatest fear
Had a dream a few weeks ago that I was back in an old job working for Cryovac - talking to local food businesses and selling them their extended shelf life packaging requirements. That was one of the best jobs I ever had.

But it was different in my dream. I sucked at the job. I didn't turn up on time to any meetings, I didn't follow up any the things I said I would, and everybody just groaned to have to deal with me. I don't really think it was like that when I was there for real.

My greatest hope
I had a dream last night where I was coming off of an injury and due to restart work in a marketing and research business that I had worked for very briefly in 2012. A bunch of hacks that surprise me with their survival. This is not Square Holes- they're great.

The bunch of hacks - the manager was a not very good (call him Peter), mindless work, and the clients were not very nice. And the manager thought I was hopeless. In real life, Peter had sacked me - which saved me finding a solution of how to get out. 

In the dream, the dynamic soon became very clear. Peter hated me, however his clients loved me. The project leader was immediately talking to me about the job and waving Peter away.

The dream wound up with me saying something like "Well, Peter doesn't want to work with me but you do. That sounds like a problem that you have to deal with. I really want to work with you as well. I suppose I just leave that situation with you".

And then I woke up.

Two dreams - one that demonstrated my greatest fears and the other that demonstrated my greatest hope. I am pleased to report that (aside from an ill-fated foray in 2015) my real life situations are far closer to the second.