Gardening Leave
shoulder_of_orion
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After returning to work after a period of "Gardening Leave", I thought I would post my observations on the topic:
1) why is it called that?? I didn't do a jot of gardening. I did try to do some gardening in the summer and bought a load of plants but they all died because I didn't water them. So I am not a gardener I've decided. Anyway, I did do a lot of eating so it should be called "eating leave". I rediscovered lunch, rather than a rushed sandwich or microwaved bowl of soup slurped over computer screen I would take time to actually cook lunch from raw ingredients.
2) I hardly spent anytime reading the commuting forums on Bike radar. Funny that. They're simply not as amusing when somebody is not paying me to read them. I hardly had the time. Apart from project managing a new bathroom and spending loads of time with my children I had far too many things to do and there simply were not enough hours in the day to waste my precious time lounging on the internet.
3) Pootling. I had never understood that there was a cycling pace apart from nuclear. Whether commuting or on a training ride, I would always go at full racing speed. However on gardening leave there was little point in going nuclear so I would pootle. I did a lot of short trips and there was no need to wear lcyra etc and I would not want to get all sweaty in my civvies. I began to enjoy my pootles and the "Game" was a distant memory.
I enjoyed my period of gardening leave but now everything has gone back to the way it was and I am glad to be back in the game!
1) why is it called that?? I didn't do a jot of gardening. I did try to do some gardening in the summer and bought a load of plants but they all died because I didn't water them. So I am not a gardener I've decided. Anyway, I did do a lot of eating so it should be called "eating leave". I rediscovered lunch, rather than a rushed sandwich or microwaved bowl of soup slurped over computer screen I would take time to actually cook lunch from raw ingredients.
2) I hardly spent anytime reading the commuting forums on Bike radar. Funny that. They're simply not as amusing when somebody is not paying me to read them. I hardly had the time. Apart from project managing a new bathroom and spending loads of time with my children I had far too many things to do and there simply were not enough hours in the day to waste my precious time lounging on the internet.
3) Pootling. I had never understood that there was a cycling pace apart from nuclear. Whether commuting or on a training ride, I would always go at full racing speed. However on gardening leave there was little point in going nuclear so I would pootle. I did a lot of short trips and there was no need to wear lcyra etc and I would not want to get all sweaty in my civvies. I began to enjoy my pootles and the "Game" was a distant memory.
I enjoyed my period of gardening leave but now everything has gone back to the way it was and I am glad to be back in the game!
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Not funny at all these days regardless of being paid to read them.