Chester is offered a Job in Canada

Serendipity or fate, call what you will but Chester has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Whilst at Fort Steele a restored a town and fort dating from 1864 Chester met Norm a kind of weird looking character – you know the kind of look that you get when you emerge from the wilderness 3 mths later with nothing but a toilet roll - the long haired, fought with a bear and survived look.

Anyway Chester got chatting with Norm and they got on like a house on fire. Conversation got serious and before too long they started talking GOLD! Norm is a national gold panning champion and wanted Chester to try his hand – “we need guys like you up here, there’s gold in them mountains Chester. I got some grit, you find me some gold.” Chester was a natural and found 5 pieces of gold in his first pan. Norm was astounded – “took me years to move that pan like you do. You sure got a way with grit.”

Anyway to cut a long story short, Chester signed the contract and lease to pan for gold in “Long Forgotten Valley”, which apparently he has exclusively for the next 100 years – a good investment for the kids (?). $5000 dollars later he was last seen up in them valleys shaking his pan like a man possessed.

UPDATE: Chester’s poor navigational skills have landed him in a spot of bother. Instead of Long Forgotten Valley he ended up in the strangely named Argos Valley – the guys up there got wind and dealt with him swiftly. That’s the way out here – no muckin’.