Mobile Lakes
1 April 2008
From the title of this post, you are probably imagining vast pools of shimmering water, trundling along the highways and byways of the land on over-stressed wheels.
Sorry to disappoint.
It’s just a reference to a conversation I was having with my godson (a term I use without a capital on account of being an Athiest) about the remnants of water that used to be the mere or lake of Kentmere. The land being reclaimed for agriculture. It is also a nice title for a trial mobile posting by iPhone from Cumbria!
He (my godson) is at that time of life when “careers advice” seems to get increasingly requested and appropriate responses are required. It’s a tricky one. You don’t want to foist your aspirations and desires upon another, but clearly considered opinion can be very helpful indeed.
At this time of year, the heavy thump of the Single Farm Payment “eurocracy” is prevalent on the doormat. Each client’s package bringing with it some 110 pages of explanetary text, complete with attendant sure promise of fines and possible imprisonment, should you be unfortunate enough to make a mistake, or not pick-up and rectify their mistakes.
Bearing the above in-mind, it is (now) hillarious to think back to one’s own “careers advice” (or more accurately) the lack of it. Where, upon finding yourself half way through your A level coursework, you are casually informed that your chosen subjects are completely at odds to your desired pathway through life.
It was therefore amusing to be questioned about cartography as a career, when this was an area I though I could achieve with the rather disjointed group of subjects I had at my disposal. Funnier still, that I found myself at a college studying Surveying – only to discover that it wasn’t that type of surveying at all. It was agricultural Chartered surveying! So, OK, this is how and why I am now inflicted with the nonsensical ravings of Brussels and the Single Payment Scheme.
I don’t get back to the Lakes half as much as I should, and my godson shall be more enlightened.
From David’s iPhone
(edited with photos taken on my iPhone)
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