Vote For The Burning Ring O' Fire!

Hey Y'all.. It is I Uppie... sorry bout the southern accent.. but I'm trying to change my image.. and be more user friendly if y'all know what I mean.. I went to Wellington for a Trans Tasman Food Union Seminar.. where I got to shake the Prime Ministers hand... this was ok but y'all know I'm not a schmoozer... for the past week I have been in Rotorua... which is the tourist capital of New Zealand attending the Dairy Workers Union congress... this is where all the site delegates from across the country get together for a week to discuss and vote on policy, rules and the money side of the Union and to listen to various speakers... one of those was again the Prime Minister... I am already on the National Executive of the Union and next year the role of President comes up for grabbs... I will prolly end up as Vice President.. it depends how and who runs for the top job... I have been campaigning for this position for the last two years... did I mention I'm not a schmoozer... shite ... well I have been for this but in an honest way... I also watched Walk The Line a movie about the early life of Johnny Cash it was very good... well worth watching... I even watched the director dirge where he comments on the movie... loved it... anyway gotta take a kid to work
ciao all

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Good evening to you all ... as you will know.. or as you will soon know another year has passed by and it is ball time again... it's buy the dress .. do the make up.. buy a suit... shave... hair styles etc etc.. here they are... as I post they are leaving the house.. well two have the second girls boyfriend is late.... weell not late yet... but if he is not here soon they will be... grrrrr... cherrs all Uppie

"excuse me while I extract my thumb from his mouth..."???

So much has been happening lately it's hard to know where to start... firstly I have been away in Rotorua for three days working, as a member of our Unions Claims Committee on the claims we are putting forward for this years negotiations... people pretty much submit claims telling us what they think we should ask for and we go through them, toss most aside then formulate the ones we think have merit into a negotiable format.. it always amazes me how naieve, selfish and downright stupid most people are... In the midst of all this I had to deal with an ageing dog, she had lost the ability to walk though was not in any pain... I took her to the vet and his advice was to put her down... which was the right thing to do... but I lugged the dog back home for one last week so that the rest of the family could get used to the fact that this was it for the dog... it was really tough to set the execution day and then take her to town and carry out the sentence... It cost three hundred dollars to turn her into a small cardboard box of ashes... (the family insisted on cremation).. I had offered to shoot her for free... saddly and this is a comment on human nature... we were burgled in the week following the dogs demise... someone... obviously who knew... snuck into the house inbetween me leaving for work and the rest of them getting up for school and such like and rifled the wifes purse taking money and credit cards.... we now have a new dog... it's a miniture fox terrier we have named "Sarge" he is sitting in my lap as I type slobbering on the keyboard... excuse me while I extract my thumb from his mouth... it's amazing how the new puppie has changed the family dynamic and has cheered people up and got them relating to each other.... it even makes the poo's and wee's bearable... though I almost have him toilet trained.. as for the rest of life in general.. well I used to read about the vagries of old age and think to myself how can that be possible.. but now I am living the dream so to speak.. I did not think old age started at 40 but there you go... good luck to you all and good life.. Uppie your chat god... aged