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APC · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 09:35 PM

Hi there, I'm APC and I think that nature is bare safe. I have just started working for a local borough council in a seasonal post as a countryside warden and I help manage a dozen or so sites with a small group of other wardens. I have recently finished college, going there because I couldn't cope with being an insurance whore ever ever again and now hopefully I am destined to make the countryside proper good for wildlife, while trying to raise awareness of nature in local people. At present, I am optimistic but anticipate become bitter, twisted and hopefully spiteful within a year. My 5 year plan is to have high blood pressure, a bald head and a stomach ulcer.

My main interest lies in reptiles, partially because there's only 6 natives to learn about, but also because I think reptiles are also bare safe. I also like mushrooms, possibly because of the apparent secretiveness of them, i.e. the majority of them only show themselves for a few months of the year. I have little knowledge of fungi but hope to pick up bits and bobs about them as I progress.

Apart from nature, I like hard acid techno (DJ'ing and listening), cooking, reading all sorts of books (currently reading "Humble Pie", by Gordon Ramsay, last book I read was a book on street gangs), DM boots and surfing. And dramatic weather. I proper like it when it's lashing it down and proper hardcore galeforce winds and freezing cold and stuff.

Brockwile!

agrumpycow · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 09:44 PM

What an intro! Welcome to the site APC, hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

goosey · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 09:58 PM

Hello Brockwile - I feel very boring after reading your intro. Keep up the good work you are doing , we need people like you to maintain and improve the countryside for wildlife and future generations. I hope you don't become too disenchanted and manage to keep your hair for a while yet! Welcome to WAB

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APC · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 10:29 PM

Hello you lot! I think I'm gonna have to wear a swimming cap to stop me pulling my hair out but then I'm blatantly gonna get a sweaty head and a weird tanline. With all that sweat it's asking for a fungal infection, perhaps I can breed candida on my scalp or something, then cultivate it on a petri dish and then send pics to the ID section to see if anyone can help me with my new mould.

Perks of job so far (after a week): turning up at my base, at the top of a cliff, looking down on the beach and the sea. Seeing old ladies with crinkly faces in bonnets walking their dogs and imagining them making jams, preserves and cake. Walking round all my sites and thinking I have one hell of a responsibility. Hour long lunch (if I'm at the base, I can use the microwave and bang me out a proper nang curry). Walking round a site where there was a big cat sighting the other day. Learning tonnes every day.

Bad bits of job: picking up other peoples oooo that they have lazily thrown down, even though they have bucket sized pockets. A minority of dog walkers. Rampaging hoardes of casuals with terrible fringes, awful tracksuit bottoms and excruciating faces.

Dogghound · #5 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 12:59 PM

sounds like quite a wild job lol, welcome to the forum

Deer Stalker · #6 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 04:58 PM

Hi APC.

astral highway · #7 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 05:51 PM

Hi APC, I'm new on this forum and just read your post. Please tell me what 'bare safe' means?

[/quote] I'm APC and I think that nature is bare safe.[/quote]

... and also 'Brockwile.'

[/quote]Brockwile![/quote]

Sorry but I just have no idea what these terms mean.

Thanks

Astral