IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE WHEN WE BOTHER TO CHECK; my last post about FIFO - honest!
'Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone ' So sang Joni Mitchel in ' Big yellow taxi'. In a similar vein, the Greek philosopher of Stoicism, Epictitus said , 'He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has'. I think it's safe to say that one of life's truisms is that we rarely appreciate what we have until we've been deprived of it. And I've been thinking about this quite a lot of late, now that I'm all husbanded up again. I feel like a latter day George Bailey or Ebenezer Scrooge, having had a mirror held up to my life to show me what is important; and like Dorothy too, everything I needed was in my own backyard all along (actually this metaphor doesn't hold up - after all, DH wasn't in the back yard, but up in the Pilbara, but bear with me dear reader). Of course the separation wasn't of my choosing -...