A Travel Blog To A Garden: A Place to Work

I’m probably in the minority of people who genuinely enjoys my job. I like my customers and I like helping to maintain a garden that someone has often spent a decade or two of their retirement time cultivating, curating and maintaining, but I’m seldom alone. And I could never make the flowers bloom or bulbs sprout half as well if it weren’t for the permanent staff members who maintain the garden between my visits. I’ve developed and understanding over the years and for the sake of comedy the various animals of my customer’s gardens fall into the following categories.

Rating The Staff

Supervisor

Cats, they will observe in a generally disapproving way, before leaving you to your work. You work ultimately for them and although they won’t give you any feedback they certainly make you feel like you need to do a better job. And of course they’ll sometimes eat your colleagues.

Managers

Chickens, they will manage your weeds from a neat pile to all over the lawn. Much like with real managers they sometimes improve your day, but often they simply get in the way of the job at hand.

More Competent Colleagues/ Unpaid interns

All the birds of the trees and bees caring out deeds. Honestly they’re the real workers. Turning over a compost heap is all well and good but there wouldn’t be any compost without the excellently hired demeritorious, you will occasionally have the issue of your colleges eating each other, but the turn over rate ensure that most gardens remain fully staffed.

Assistant

Dogs. Well meaning, but often need a lot more training, depending on the job they’ll at least make for an easier workday simply because they bring a delightful enthusiasm with them. Often given the position through nepotism.

We even had one garden where two Sheltand ponies were allowed in on occasions, I would label them as assistance as well, excellent for mowing grass especially between the bulbs, but the finish was rarely even and they worked best when left for the day rather than the customary hourly rate.

I hope this mildly amused you dear reader. If your looking for something a little less silly (not much mind), and a little more scientific check out my articles. I’m pretty proud of them. Blog posts like these are manly here to make sure the algorithm known I’m alive.