Geneological Rambling

Quotes of the moment:
"You are to bring us a shrubbery!"
- Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.

"What we want is bonsai!"
- Translation of Japanese dubbing.

Sigh... Hmmm. What to do now, eh? I had the next four months planned around my Army selection stuff. I'm planning (fingers crossed) to keep on doing most of the fitness stuff, since I want to stop being a fat pie anyway. I'll probably drop most of the running though, since I no longer have a time to achieve, and stick to cycling. I'm also going to get a proper job, which I didn't before so that it wouldn't be interrupted by going off on visits to regiments etc, as well as the selection tests. Perhaps something in the Stansted baggage handling line? I hear it's the fashionable thing: Timmy B and Paddy, well known trend-setters, have both partaken in this hedonistic employment!

In the longer term, I'm not convinced about a life as a normal civil engineer... It might get too routine, what with the lack of 6 month tours to lovely hotspots! Unless I manage to join some wonderful one-off specialty building design firm, I might, after a few years, go with one of my possible plans for if I failed to make it onto the promotion list for becoming a general(!): teaching.

Zut alors! Mai oui! I wouldn't be so foolish as to go all the way into it though. I'd stick to D&T, I reckon. Very little homework/prep to mark, and you get to make interesting stuff occasionally! How rare! I might seem lacking in imagination for only thinking of family careers:

Soldiering: Father, Two uncles, grandfather.
Teaching: Father, Aunt.
Civil Engineering: One uncle, Great uncle plus his son plus his son. Also one uncle in surveying and one in mechanical engineering.

But...
Medicine:
(Nurses): Mother, Two aunts, Grandmother
(Doctors): One first cousin, plus Grandfather, his brother and his brothers two sons, and two of one of their sons.

So Vicky's worse than me! Even Sarah, who's currently thinking of Art College, would be following my other grandmother... Methinks picking a family job runs in the family! To put it another way, some things are quite obviously inherited...

Apologies for the irrelevance of all of that(and especially if you've heard it before), but I thought it was kind of funny, really, how predictable my family is!