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Where are you happiest?

Maybe on my jetty as the sun sets over the river and the only company are pelicans and cormorants. Otherwise, in ten feet of water looking at a crayfish and thinking of recipes.

What’s your idea of hell?

An office where employees are trying to make the meeting last to knock-off time.

 


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Comments

Paul Penman
Friday, 09 August 2019 13:11
What a man. We could all learn something from him.

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