h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cheers dear I'm actually glad to be back.

One of things I'm finding difficult post uni is the fact that I can't experiment the way I used too. I simply can't afford to buy the metal to make models and silver & gold are too expensive to try designs you aren't 99% confident about.

...then again, I haven't made metalwork in months. Not making makes me miserable, making makes me happy, but I just can't seem to kick myself back into work because I know that my style has to change and I can't work out where to begin. I need to find inspiration, which is one of the reasons I'm back. I thought reading some guide entries might help.

Funny fact about my uni experience. During my masters, we had someone come in and give us a lecture about story telling and when he found out I was from Blairgowrie we talked about some of the myths. I googled this subject and my guide entry is still the first that pops up That definitely began my thoughts of returning.

(You may have also noticed, 7 years hasn't stopped me babbling!)

Your entry came up first for me, too, even though I'm on the Left Coast of the states. The hedge in your entry doesn't sound like a hedge so much as a vegetative wall! Gotta add that area to my bucket list, there's so much history and geography there. Afraid Cargill's Leap is a couple of decades past me, even if it could still be done.

Perthshire's definitely worth a look around, it's beautiful and that's coming from someone who's lived there 20 years and doesn't notice it as much!

Cargill's Leap...definitely cannot be done. In fact a couple of years ago a bunch of idiots I went to school with tried it, the guy I knew fell and broke his legs, his older brother went into the water save him and drowned after getting swept down stream.

The guy I knew bullied me throughout school and was fine, his brother was apparently the black sheep of the family in that he was nice. Poor bloke didn't deserve to drown because of the idiocy of his brother.

Sounds familiar...one of my brother's friends from high school was his family's black sheep because he didn't want any part of the family "business", then had the bad luck to be with his brother when he got busted for being a member of that Detroit "famiglia", and ended up going to prison, too. Just for being in his brother's car.

That sucks and not that being imprisoned is in any way good, but it still beats death.

If you want to employ a commercial metallurgist, I'm right here! Getting close to being a full-time jobseeker...

And I'd love to explore your hedge.

B

I'm not even going to pass comment on that!

Don't worry, if it wasn't for the fact that I work for my parents I really wouldn't have a job! The idea was to leave uni, work for them part time to get enough money to buy metal and be self employed making jewellery and putting it in a cabinet at work to begin with and sell on etsy...

I'd like to teach jewellery too, I think I'd be a good teachers - I worked during my Masters as Designer in Residence and the students said I was good - but I'd need to go back and do my PhD and I'm too scared to do it. I still hate standing up and doing presentation and have no clue what subject within the jewellery world that I would base it on!

It's one of the many things whirring round my head making me go mental.

Speaking of work, I need get ready and head off. Laters!