thanks, Patrick and others for comment.
[Bill outside Melbourne sees weird life at St Andrews market!]
In my old age I have come to thank workers like Bess who expected kids to work also.
My wife and I just last night were wondering how today's young will ever develop
good work habits unless they see results from their own first experiences of hard work.
Learning the piano or other instrument takes much hard repetitive work.
Can you learn another language without the same?
Growing your own food has the beauty of the work bringing flavours to your own table.
I am ashamed of my reliance on supermarkets and eating out, but too lazy to reform.
My wife as a speech therapist gets her young (dyslexic) clients doing hard repetitive work, which slowly brings achievement,
and she says how even the teenagers who come to her seem never to have had to work hard at anything.
Sound like ageing curmudgeons, don't we!
Looking back on my own schooling I reckon no teacher quite saw in me the lack of good work habits…failed at any rate to turn me into the worker I should have become…
On 10/01/2013, at 6:04 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Max thanks for these pics -I expect we all get gulled now and then -I feel
> for Auntie Bess her tough world -and I suppose the awful jobs now when you
> go to visit uncle Max is to take those flea bitten dogs out for a walk
> Cheers P
>
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