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Learning Japanese as an adult is impressive in my book.

When it comes to ascribing oneself qualities such as manliness I feel it's for other people to judge, it smacks of insecurity or perhaps alcohol to bang on about it.

I guess you're illustrating my point, a kind of reverse snobbery about being a manual worker. I'm sure you're a thrilling and stimulating conversationalist, I am as well for elderly widows who like a harmless flirt and chat after I've done the job.

I understand how, as manual outdoors workers, it's good to tell ourselves how great it is and that we couldn't survive an office life because we're non conforming sons (and daughters) of nature. But you could if you had to and what's more it has its compensations, I'll list a few. Being in the...

I've worked in an office, dealing with clients on phones, selling, taking orders, ensuring deliveries go out, dealing with mistakes. It's hard work, different for sure, but you're knackered at the end of the day.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/doddle Dick van Dyke would have used it in Mary Poppins. Still in current usage, but a bit archaic for the yoof.

Yes, if you have a decent chipper and a groundy, it's sometimes easier to strip it on the way up, stopping every now and then to let the man on the ground catch up, or rappel down to help the guy. Seems slower than a straight fell but, like the tortoise and the hare, less raking, easier work...