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this is a very vivid and a very well told account of your life as an oil rig work. you and your friends, colleagues but your life on the line everytime you go off-shore and on to the rigs to mine the oil. we take foregranted of the dangers as well as the hardships that you and your friends and colleagues face on a daily basis. we do not use oil just a source of energy but as a product in many of the items that we use on a day to day basis. i salute you and your friends and colleagues for your bravery.

kat

Hi Kat, First of all I would like to thank you for your comments on that story. It was a recent documentry I saw on TV that prompted me to write it, and as soon as I staretd I instantly remembered all the faces of my deceast colleuges. We were all a lot younger in those days, all chasing the big money, the risks involved never entered our heads at the time. It is only now when I am older that I have the chance to look back on it, a chance they will never have. Well at least their memory will now be recognised with the help of that story.
Smudger.

smudger you are very good writer and i will not forget the sacrifices of your colleagues and friends.

kat

Thanks Kat, The work that we all did is still going on even today, its just a newer generation thats doing it, I suppose the safety has been improved since our time. I would never have thought for one minute that I would end my working career in the ambuulance service, but then again I never thought that I would be sent aborad to work in oil industry, its a fuuny old world
Smudger.

smudger you have had a very varied career from being in the royal navy, then as an oil rig worker and an working in the ambulance service.

kat

Hi Kat, I think looking back on it all, the best part was being a welding instructor as I think that was the most rewarding, all be it I worked myself out of work!! Ah! hind sight is great Eh?
Smudger.

i agree smudger hindsight is great there are lot of things that i would love to have done differently if i had the chance.

kat

Hi Kat, Ive just finished off that long article about Moscow & Azerbaijan, it took ages. Yes if I had more hindsight I would be a lot better for it. Still I can look back on it all now with no regrets. Its just a pity that I cant do what I want any more, and have to curtail it to my ability, Hey! but is was fun
Smudger.

smudger you would make a very good professional writer.

kat

Hi Kat, thats as you are the second person who have said that! The only problem is that none of my stories are long enough I did do 39 pages once, then ran out of steam for example that last one about Baku is only about 3 or 4 pages
Smudger.

smudger when i tried to a writer's course, i think it provided addresses for magazines to write short stories. magazines like reader's digest, and there is another one but i cannot remember the name but it's published in scotland all accept short stories.

kat

Hi Kat, Maybe I should dig around on the net, and see what I can find out. The short story side is a better idea really, as you say no harm in me looking around Eh!
Smudger.