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on Apr 26 in General by

My job may have some pretty significant disadvantages (none of which I’m really able to go into here), but you’d be very hard pressed to find an alternative that offers quite the same level of perks.

Trust me, I’ve tried.

The main advantage of course is that I only have to work three days a week. This both gives me the opportunity to be a part time stay-at-home dad, and also the time to engage in whatever obsession I happen to be consumed with at the time. There’s no way I’d be able to hike, blog, garden, build chicken coops, take photographs and play the ukulele if I was a nine to five Monday to Friday workaday Joe. Not and sleep as well at any rate.

But that’s not the only advantage to my job. While working I spend most of my time driving round the wilds of Halifax visiting my patients in their own homes. Therefore in their infinite wisdom the NHS have designated me an “essential car user”. Which basically mean that they give me a free car. Hurrah!

Well, ok they don’t. But they do contribute a rather nice proportion towards the cost of a lease car. Bloody marvelous!

At three years old my previous lease car, a 1.4 VW Polo, was getting a little long in the tooth and so on Friday I went to Castleford to pick up my brand spanking new VW Golf 2.0 TDI.

And very nice it is too.

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I even went for the slightly upgraded model, mainly because that means I can plug my ipod directly into the radio rather than have to mess about with FM transmitters.

Of course we’d never be able to afford a brand new car if we had to pay for it ourselves. To be honest even the subsidized lease payments for it are going to be a bit of a stretch. But our other car, a bruised and battered Skoda fabia is well past it’s best and the intention is that the Golf is going to assume the role of family car, with the Skoda relegated to runabout.

It’s all very exciting.

In other news, I bought a new pair of swimming shorts yesterday. This wouldn’t be worth mentioning if it wasn’t for this:

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I’m pretty sure these shorts are the first item of clothing I’ve bought smaller than an XL since I was in my teens. Hell, I was pretty chuffed with myself when I moved down to XL from XXL.

Things are pretty good in the Hughes household at the moment.

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