Yesterday was Race For Life Day! I’d been training for this for…….. Oh wait, I didn’t! BIG mistake. We signed up as a team of 3 – me, my friend (L) and her cousin (S). Well, it turns out those two are a hell of a lot fitter than I am! Me, L, hubby & little man turned up around an hour before the race started, parked up and then waited for S to arrive. It was so busy with a heck of a lot of people taking part and all their spectators. 96.9 Viking FM radio station were also there, spurring everyone …
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Learning to drive
When I was 18 I started learning to drive. I was petrified at first, but I wanted to be more independent, and it’s something that all my friends were doing. My first driving lesson was OK – I say OK, well apart from the fact I nearly drove into an oncoming bus, but we’ll let that one pass! As that was a few years ago now (nearly 10!), I can’t remember exactly how many driving lessons I had, but I think it was somewhere around 10. I did a couple of mock theories too and passed those. Then I took …
When you feel depressed
When you’re feeling depressed… …do you feel paranoid, like everything everybody says to is out to hurt you, even though they’re only joking (you hope)? When you’re feeling depressed… …do you just wish the world would stop turning, go away, leave you alone, you just want to be on your own? When you’re feeling depressed… …do you just want to go to sleep, hide away, and wake up when it’s all over, when you feel better? When you’re feeling depressed… …do you start to hate everyone around you, snap at even the tiniest little thing, and then realise it’s not …
What’s in a name?
What is in a name? Since before we even found out I was pregnant, we always had our girls name chosen – though a friend has since named their baby girl with the same first name so we will have to rethink if we ever have a girl, though I absolutely love it so we may have to keep it as a middle name! Once we knew little man was a boy, we struggled with deciding on a first name. We just could not agree. If hubby chose one, I didn’t like it; if I chose one, he didn’t like …