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I am under pressure with the tax return and also important drawings which must be drawn. Therefore I am posting cartoons which had not, until this moment of desperation, met the exacting standards I usually require for drawings to be posted on this weblog.
For some reason I have spent much of the morning on the phone to Orange. My mobile telephone has never worked properly in the 2 years I have had it and for reasons I cannot fathom I chose this morning to contact them. Idiot.
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We have a ladder like this in church for reaching the high up bits. We are also blessed with a fearless Verger to climb it. The man on your ladder obviously hasn’t done any kind of risk assessment, or there would be at least one person at the bottom to steady the ladder. Either that, or he’s assessed the risk and decided it’s worth taking in order to observe distant civilisations and other daring ladder-climbers
We once had a Church Warden who was a retired Fireman. Which meant he was the only person brave enough to enter that place what only few have ever entered since time began… The Church Loft.
Aren’t ladders now being banned by the health and safety executive? Personally I have always preferred stilts to ladders, so much more control, although I suppose not always practical if you need to get up really high!
Dave – the problems you are having concentrating on your tax documents are now a matter of international concern. We don’t expect cartoonists and creative types to be good with paperwork. We don’t expect them to be awfully good at self care. I don’t believe the two are unrelated. If you become too efficient in matters of family finance or personal grooming then your creative juices will dry up.
On the other hand the date is approaching. Turn your computer off. Hide your drawing pens. One last push, Dave, one last push. Get that sucker done!
“for reasons I cannot fathom I chose this morning to contact them”.
Dave, it’s called procrastination. It’s a gift. My flat is never so clean and clothes never so ironed as just before a deadline.
Is this cartoon a cutting critique of the ascetic hermits who retreat from life on pillars?
If so it has come about 1600 years too late.
I have the good fortune of poverty, which means that taxes are no terror for me. No matter how I add things up, I always get it all back.
Dave
Re the mobile phone
This could be a perfectly understandable displacement activity. On the other hand, there does come a “tipping point” with these things when you finally realise that it has gone on long enough and that you are actually paying for a service which they aren’t providing …
Sorry – found myself ranting there!!
If you can sort out the phone, then the tax will be a piece of cake!
This reminds me of ‘war of the worlds’ – except the martians were tripods..
There’s an even better word than ‘procrastination’ for the Orange phone stuff happening today, Jack the Lass. It’s called ‘displacement activity’. You slip into another task (possibly a mundanely unpleasant one, like soaking a bit of laundry) rather than the more daunting one that you should be doing. I’m an absolute master at it. Congratulations, Dave, contacting Orange voluntarily is doing it with style!
I’m doing the last-minute-tax-return-tango round the office too, by the way. Steps are tricky, but OK once you get the hang of them: filing cabinet to shelf with box files, back again, spin over to the photocopier, then a triumphant airpunch when another column is successfully filled in.
And I’m poor too, and painfully honest, so why DO I worry so, and put it off…?? Heaven alone knows.
