A Jack of All Trades:
Aspiring astrophysicist, mathematician, gymnast, singer, fencer, car parts press operator, tutor, pianist, telephone customer service officer, harmonica player, technical writer, traveller, sailor, au pair, guitarist, office secretary, flautist, trekker, IT consultant, songwriter, runner, author, teacher, actor, banjo player, preacher, rower, receptionist, ukulist ukuleleist ukist ukulele player, school builder and blogger.
On a search for the one thing I can master…
My, you have so many skills!! 😉
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Haha! Thanks! 😀
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I LOVE your tagline!
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Haha, thanks! And thanks for stopping by! 🙂
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Thanks for the follow! Have been to your site a few times now and have signed up to follow you too! Love your pix and your posts!~
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Thanks! 🙂
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Jack of all trades indeed! Haha. Looking forward to reading your posts!! 🙂
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I’m hoping to add more. It’s a work in progress. Thanks for calling in! 🙂
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Our paths will definitely cross on this search for the holy grail, H … Though you post-date me by roughly half a century, you are I are kindred spirits. You poor bastard ! [grin]
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🙂 “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.”
And I seriously doubt you are as far ahead of me as you think you are.
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Could be right – could be the gravatar …
But I did turn 71 on the 8th inst.
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On your estimation, that would make me 21. I’d take it, but I don’t think anyone would believe me…
Make it a quarter of a century and we’re pretty much there.
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OK, I’m prepared to haggle. Quarter of a century it is !!
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I’m over here from M-R’s blog. Pleased to meet ya! I’m giving you a follow because as you say, I might learn new stuff. New stuff is always welcome. Come vist – the door is always unlocked.
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You’re a geek AND a traveller? Well, that’s an easy Follow to reciprocate! Nice to meet you!
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🙂 Queen o’ Geeks…..
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Also visiting from M-R’s place and well done with replicating the boxes. I wouldn’t even attempt it. Interesting you are having your anniversary in two weeks and couldn’t wait. I’m having mine in two days and couldn’t wait to do the post to celebrate. Look forward to reading some more of your posts. Cheers Irene
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Oh, well, if you’ve come from M-R’s then come on in!
I could imagine not being able to hold in a post for another few days. We have to write when we need to write, right? In my case, I was about to lose my nerve (too much thinking about what others might think) so thought I’d better get it up there pronto.
Thanks for dropping in, Irene! 🙂
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Thank you for following! Us Geeks and Do-it-alls have to stick together!
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Oh, but I know THAT feeling 🙂
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I love your posts and I am awarding you the Lovely Blogger award. It’s an easy one and I hope you’ll take time to complete it. I’d really be interested in learning 7 new facts about you and I think the rest of the blogosphere would too! Info is on my Awards Page along with the award for you to copy and put on your own site.
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Hello Master of Something. M-R sent me to wish you Happy Birthday. 🙂 Happy Birthday 🙂 Whew, alright ….now that I’ve done that, Happy B’day from a fellow October B’day person. I gotta say, I love your list of trades.
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Aw, thanks, Iris! And Happy Birthday to you for the other day!
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Happy Belated Birthday. Thanks for visiting my site and for commenting “from over there from Maggie’s blog.” There are more blogger Zombie fans than I ever imagined. Got to think up a group thought for all of us. And of course there’s a blog coming! I like your Jack of All Trades blog site. Looking forward to reading some posts.
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Thanks Christine! I’m looking forward to catching up with your stories.
PS You might want to search for zombie on my blog – there’s a very useful recipe for when the zombie apocalypse comes (inspired by Maggie, I might add). 😀
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Hi, I’ve followed you here via HeyJude! I’m sure with that list of accomplishments you’ll find something you do well. You certainly won’t be a “Scott No Friends” anyway!
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Oh, hi!! Well, you know, any friend of Jude’s… 🙂 Thanks for coming over. See you at your place soon.
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1) Despite all our communication last night, I never said “Thank you” for the Follow on The Last Half. Thank you! I am so pleased to have a such an accomplished, smart
-arseperson join us all over there : )4) I REALLY like the way your menu looks and works! Attractive, user-friendly.
It is the way I’ve been trying lately to get mine to work (the current categorizing was a pre-step) but I’ve been failing, going at it all wrong. Your astrophysicist-mathematician mind probably did it in the time it took you to upload the images and cut’n’paste the links.
Whereas I need more twerking time, or to swallow my pride to ask for help and/or search forums–so stubborn! Tired of those WP.org and paid-site folk hogging up the airtime any time I look sump’in up with non-vanilla solves that do squat for we po’ ‘n’ low WP.com free-only folk.
Oops–Did I just egocentrically rant all over YOUR lovely About page?
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I must tell you that the front menu setup idea was stolen from M-R. With permission, I might add. She posted instructions, if you want to give it a crack (she’d be tickled pink). Here: http://margaretrosestringer.com/2014/07/18/the-story-behind-my-portfolio-navigation/
Mind you, she doesn’t use it herself any more. I don’t know if it’s because I
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Kissing your feet. (So grateful you are a FEMALE athlete. Sexist? Only where Athlete’s Lips are concerned.)
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It was NOT stolen: I was thrilled to death when you decided to use the idea, as you know very well !!! [M-R wags finger]
And I have told you privately why I don’t use it any more; that is not for broadcast.
U R being difficult. I can see I’m going to have to dock your wages …
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You can’t. I hid the tip jar in a secret location.
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Oh how LIKE you ! That explains why I broke all my nails running my hands along the tops of shelves and stuff when I was looking for it the other morning. 😦
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You can’t take the tips from me. (With apologies to Joss Whedon.)
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For heaven’s sake, H ! – I had to look thagt up in bloody Google ! And when I found it I was so exhausted that I couldn’t be bothered finding out why we can’t take the sky from him. You’re not following him on [gasp !] Twitter, are you …?
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What self-respecting geek would not??
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Was reading your response to Sue over at Travel Tales of Life’s quiz. LOVE your answers! Off to check out more of your stuff! Cheers!
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Oh, thanks so much, Lynn!
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I’m also in search of something I’m really good at. Have yet to find it …
I’m coming here from «Adjusting my Background» … I’m not good at blogging either, but I do it anyways, in spite of what others might think of it.
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I think there’s a few of us out there, really. That’s a good place to come from. 😉 Glad you came over.
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You aspire to be a car parts press operator. Tell me more! Seriously though, thanks for following ZimmerBitch.
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The “aspiring” is supposed to attach itself only to “astrophysicist”. All the other things I’ve actually done. Yes, including pressing out car parts. Must admit the man in the recruiting office did look at me funny when I filled in my highest qualification as “Bachelor of Science, Monash University”. But a job’s a job, right?
Ditto. Well, I mean thanks for following me, not ZimmerBitch. That would be weird. But who am I to judge?
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Hehe; Ford or Holden?
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Ford. 🙂 Luckily I was only there for a month. I’ve never regretted it, though. Gave me an insight into the jobs some people do for their whole lives.
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I almost had a job like that once. My father fixed me up with a job in Naval Stores (and was incredibly pissed off when I declined it). The thought of clocking in every day on one of those big green machines was just too much. Then I realised that my dad had been doing that all his working life.
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You literally just summed up my life ! – I’ve never found MY thing and just assumed i was faulty LOL ! yes to your blog!
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Thanks! 😀 I think you’ll find there’s a few of us out there. 🙂
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Hey Heather, It’s great to meet you! You’re like 10 talented women rolled into one! After reading all the things you’ve mastered, I had to try my hand at making my own list. The funniest memory was that I washed house trailers as a teenager to earn some college money, but I can’t say I mastered it. 🙂 Thanks for dropping by our blog via Sue’s refugee post. So looking forward to reading more of your posts. All the best, Terri
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Oh, I haven’t mastered any of them. Which is kind of the point. Still looking for the one thing I can master. 🙂
You washed house trailers? (I assume that translates into ‘caravans’ for we alternative English speakers.) That’s a fun fact! Did you have a hose, a ladder or are you exceptionally tall?
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Wonderful to meet you. Your skills (growing skills?) are impressive, but I’m surprised you didn’t place blogging at the top. You seem to be mastering the blog world…well, masterly.
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Well, thank you very much. I’m sorry it’s taken me a little while to greet you properly but as you’ve already discovered, life is a little bit extra challenging at present!
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I think I better just “follow” your blog, or I’ll never leave it. I’ve already spent waaaay longer than I intended this a.m. So now I’m following; and I’m going to say ‘good bye for the moment’ . . . . in a moment . . . Love a lot of the concepts, here – navigation tools, discussions, learning stuff, things like that. And, 3 boys! What fun! Reminds me of how much I’ve unexpectedly really loved the mom-part of life. I blog about whooping crane families (yes, really!) . . . for now.
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Thanks for dropping in and staying longer than expected! Popping on over to your blog now to check out those cranes. And as a Wind in the Willows fan, how could I resist a blog with ‘badger’ in the title? 🙂
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I bet that happens to a lot of people here – the “staying longer than expected!” It’s a compliment, you know.. And as far as resisting “a blog with a ‘badger’ in the title?” – good point! How could you? And I’m glad of it! Thanks, too, for making the association with The Wind in the Willows . . . I hadn’t. . . I should have!
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Yes! That’s just happening to me. Stumbled across this blog an hour or two ago and I’m hooked! Reading post after post and now here I am knee deep in the wonderful “about” page loving and laughing with the comments.
I’m pulling up a chair, filling a mug and staying right here. Forever!
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You’re very kind. 😊
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Hi, I like your blog and the way you write. I’ve just turned 18 and I truly like the fact of not begin able, like you, to find a single thing I’d love to do. That’s the blog I’ve recently opened https://breathingthoughtsblog.wordpress.com hoping you’ll learn new staff from it. I would be grateful if you let me know about what you think or if you have some tips.
Thanks, Luisa.
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I so love the title of your blog Heather.…perhaps life is better lived when you are a jack of many trades than a master of one. Never a dull moment. For example, your first one, astrophysicist, got me thinking. My love of astrophysics started outside of the classroom, after I had failed to master that science as a student. Once the grades no longer mattered, I could just say ‘Wow’ reading all the books and attending ‘Science Cafes’ in New York as a ‘Physics Groupie’. I’ll never be a master astrophysicist, but I will always smile when I think of seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson, dressed as Morpheus, lecture on the ‘Physics of the Matrix’. I was in heaven.
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Oh, Lisa! You gave me a hot flush with that last bit of your comment! Neil deGrasse Tyson, dressed as Morpheus, explaining the ‘Physics of the Matrix’??? Oh, my goodness! I’d give anything to have been there! 😀
Yes, as much as a part of me would love to be really, really good at something, just one thing, another part of me rationally realises that not having a singular talent or skill has meant I’ve tried all sorts of things that perhaps I may not have done otherwise. Life is never boring, that’s for sure. 🙂
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Trying to master the ukulele too… one day, one day…
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Excellent. I’ll never master it – I’m too lazy to work at it – but it’s still fun to muck about on it.
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Same here…
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Whoaahh..now you’re an interesting individual. 🙂 So many talents and hobbies! cool!
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Great to meet you and I’m looking forward to exploring your blog further. I just read your comment about Lorne and Erskine Falls which really resonated with me and drew me here. Cheers!
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Thanks, Miriam. Great to meet you too! 🙂
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Awesome! 🙂
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What a fun blog! Looking forward to the “yet” turning to “now” 😀
Blessings,
Dajena ❤
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It’s a bit belated, but thank you. 🙂 I’m just a tiny bit concerned that if I do ever reach the “now”, I’ll get bored. 😉
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Hah! I knew I´m going to find you one day 😀 With all those skills you can only be The Doctor … But which one? Thanks for your nice blog, you´ve just got a new follower 🙂 Best regards, Davina
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Oh, if only. But I do drive a blue car called the CARDIS. (true) Thanks for dropping by Davina. 🙂
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I love your photo and description.
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Very impressed with your blog and how you show your personality in anyway you can.
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Thank you for that lovely feedback.
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Thank you!
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You had me at ukulele. 😉
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Mine’s had a broken string for ages and I haven’t had time to replace it. I miss my ukulele.
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