a bookie's life fer me

I'm now almost a fully-qualified bookie (a well I could but hope :-) )

I have had two wee sessions in the shop now and none till next week I'm getting very few hours. But at least I'm not laying about so much and I'm still attending quite a few interviews!! I may even get into hospitality before I leave civilisation for the outback here and go fruit picking in a few weeks time. The betting here is Totalisation so I'm learning in finer detail some of the betting that I didn't know beforehand. I also have to learn to understand Kiwi accents as here they can place bets verbally without having anything written down - so that is taking me a wee bit of getting used to!

Not much else has been happening it is now so much like Scotland here I feel right at home - the rain is pelting, you can't see very far out of the window and last night was so cold and wet when I walked home that I thought there would be frost this morning. No such luck, you don't really get frost out here. They really don't know what they are missing these Kiwi's :-)

This is only a short note!