Groan

That's the sound of me re-acquainting myself with a bunch of muscles I haven't used in a while. Why?? Work. There was not much around this week. No painting & decorating gigs. No other construction work (at least none for sub-contractors)even with my site cert back. The agency had a choice of two casual vacancies. Potato planting or two weeks of orchard work.

I've done potato planting before and wasn't impressed. It's not quite as bad as swede-topping but it sure runs close. So I said yes to the orchard work.

Idiot.

The orchard work comprises planting apple trees. Baby ones to be true. But they still need a hole dug for each tree that's a metre across and a spit deep. (A spit is the length of a spade's blade). There are two hectares (about 8 acres) needing to be planted with trees. My arms are fine - I'm used to manual labour. My legs are fine, I run and I walk a lot. My back though... my back is killing me. And it's only Wednesday. There's another 7 days of this.. . anybody wanna give me a massage??

Ze

BtVS

• Chapter 3 of Cookie Cutter by SammyFLuv (BuffynFaith.Net).
  
  
• Chapter 33 of Faith In Family by georagetaz (BuffynFaith.Net).
  
  
• Alive by Tim (Rebelrsr's Website).
  
  
• Part 9 of It's An Unlikely World by halfofone (Of Labrys & Kings).
  
  Criminal Minds
  
• Part 3 of Lies My Parents Told Me by gilligankane (Women in Kevlar).
  
  CSI
  
• A Bug's Life by Ann (Sassy).
  
  Gossip Girl
  
• Social climber. Masochist. Whore. by shopfront (Saffic).
  
  (Kim Harrison's) The Hollows
  
• Part 14 of This Little Spell of Mine by Threshin (ivy_rachel).
  
  
• Part 15 of This Little Spell of Mine by Threshin (ivy_rachel).
  
  South of Nowhere
  
• A Love Deep As Ours Is Never (Really) Forgotten by Catarina (South of Nowhere Fiction).
  
  Voyager
  
• Arrow of Eros by Outwin601 (Captain Katie's Logs).
  
  Xena:Warrior Princess
  
• No Good Deed by IseQween (Bard's Corner).