Apparently, as the song would have you believe, ‘it’s the most wonderful time of the year’... but with no racing anywhere, I’m pretty convinced it isn’t. All the niceties of early nights in, chilling by the fire and feeding up a little more than I normally would is nice – but I’m already wishing spring would arrive so the racing world will awake from its winter hibernation.
I’m currently back on the tools, which is something I wasn’t able to do once the 2021 season got going. With the condensed back-to-back style schedule, there was simply no way I could hold down a second vocation but now I’m enjoying a bit of the real-world lifestyle. I use the word ‘enjoying’ pretty loosely. Of course, when it’s freezing cold outside and you are covered in muck and dust, I wonder why I bother – but I do get a good feeling after a day of graft. I’m also really lucky that any additional manual work I do isn’t really necessary, and I don’t have the stress of having to go in day in, day out. I pick and choose who I work for, which means all my bosses are always my mates... which always helps.
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