Why I hate August.

August signals the beginning of the insanely busy period of my year. August, September, October………. for those three months of the year I am lucky to find a spare moment to scratch myself.

Training season is is full swing for the RFS. This month I am spending 3  weekends away doing RFS stuff. One weekend at a community education forum in Goulburn, one weekend doing a communications course in Dubbo and one weekend attending the Region West exercise at Lake Burrendong. Next month we have two fund raising jobs taking up two weekends, a four wheel driving course, open day and the start of an advanced firefighter course accounting for all but one of my weekends and October is filling up fast with two weekends accounted for already! Not to mention our normal brigade training, preperation for the start of the fire season, and our AGM.

September also sees the wind up of winter sports, which coincidentally also means starting to prepare for summer sports. So there will be enrolment days to assist at for Little Athletics and getting back into the swing of adding in extra weekday activities to our routine and the pool will reopen sometime in there so we will be fitting in pool time too.

And it would seem that half our damn family have birthdays in September/October. There are 6 of them (not counting exes or scumbags). One is PSLS and one is CJ’s. Oh and we mustn’t forget out big ten year wedding anniversary this year – also in September!

Last year, I think we ended up with two free weekends over the whole 3 month period.

This year is looking much the same.

I’m tired just thinking about it!