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So at the beginning of May we should have travelled to the Isle of Wight to complete a 50km ultra-challenge in aid of Sarcoma UK. Me, Pete and my brother Mike were doing this for Sarcoma UK and my friend Sandra was doing it for a charity close to her heart. Obviously the pandemic hasContinue reading “Ultra-Challenge”

I know my blog is normally about sobriety and I’ve not blogged for ages, but wanted to do so today. I’ve been so busy in my role as a Procurement Manager for Northern Care Alliance – (Salford Royal NHS and Pennine Acute NHS Trust). I’m not on the front line, BUT we are business criticalContinue reading “How can you help our NHS colleagues?”

To all the very kind people who helped us to raise over £750 for Sarcoma UK a huge huge thank you ❤ I’m in bed utterly exhausted but very happy to yet again be surrounded by such lovely community spirited, generous people. I’m a very lucky girl! Couple of pictures from today 😘 Xx

It’s been a while since I blogged and it’s been absolutely crazy!! A few things I’ve been doing: Work, It’s crazy full stop, I say to Pete every day, wow work was dead manic today. I’ve said this every day for 2 years – so maybe this is my job, crazy manic madness! Run club,Continue reading “Craziness!”

I’ve said it before that writing this blog is a great way of working through my thoughts and feelings, a type of therapy. This type of working through feelings is still all new to me, I never dealt with the feelings before, I just drank to numb them and block them out. Almost 4 yearsContinue reading “My Dad…..”

So I’m always banging on about my shiny new life and rightly so. It’s pretty amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world. ❤ However…I’m still normal …I still get stressed and over commit like I used to, only now I can cope with it so much better. I used to get stressed andContinue reading “Stress!”

Hi All. Ive been super busy and quiet, sorry! How is everyone? How is Dry January going? (if you are partaking) I’d love to hear how you are getting on and shall be sharing this blog post on my ‘all shiny and new’ Facebook page. Let’s have a chat, share ideas, tell us your challengesContinue reading “Dry January”

So you thought it was a good idea and thought you’d be fine, but now you might be getting twitchy, anxious, bored and narky. Your mind might be wondering – ‘Could I just have one drink?’ It would take away the boredom right?So, I thought I’d be nice and come up with some suggestions toContinue reading “”Help Me I’m Doing Dry January!””

Dont they haunt you!? I know memories are supposed to be a wonderful thing but that’s only if the memories are in fact wonderful and joyous. If you were a drunken prick like me, with daily pricklike behaviour and almost daily blackouts from excessive boozing, the memories are not so good. Facebook memories are ofContinue reading “Memories”

I hope you have had a wonderful festive season and looking forward to whatever normality has in store for you, I’ve spent the whole day in PJ’s eating copious amounts of food after doing 2 park runs this morning! Definitely not normality – but thats OK, my body needed a rest and some food andContinue reading “Happy New Year”