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This Is Me, Upfront and Personal!

So! This blog has been up and running for a while now, and I think it's only fair that I tell you a bit about myself.

I am a 46 year old Mum to one teenage regular son and a nine year old furry son called Stan, who is  of the Cocker Spaniel variety. I also share my life with my extremely patient partner  Richard who constantly turns a blind eye to my reading addiction, even though he doesn't share the addiction with me!!!

I worked for Radio 2 as a Broadcast Assistant for 28 years, (believe it or not, I was a month shy of my 17th birthday when I started !) working on many of the fantastic shows. Who wouldn't like to meet Michael Buble or Gary Barlow over Breakfast, or share such brilliant creativity and laughter with their colleagues?  But when the carrot of voluntary redundancy was dangled under my nose two years ago, I decided to take a leap of faith, and leave the fur-lined rut that I was residing in, and I left. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, and I was plagued with the fear of "what am I going to do now?" I was extremely lucky and within a month I had another job which I stuck at for 18 months before coming to the conclusion that it wasn't for me, and so at Christmas, I decided to leave.

I was determined to take the month of January off...who wants to work in January? It's a month of no promises, nothing to look forward to and dark dreary mornings. So I went to the gym three times a week (no longer having the excuse that I can't work out as I don't have the time), spent a lot of time reading and had lovely lunches in Carluccio's with Richard. Then January turned to February, and  I didn't want to work because it was my son's birthday at the start of the month, and I hate working on his birthday, then it was Valentine's Day, and we were going out for a romantic dinner, and I didn't want to have to get up and go to work the next morning, and then it was half term. February has now turned to March, and the panic has set in!! I need to get a job!! So that's where I'm at now!

I've also bought into the idea that everyone has at least one novel in them, and so I've decided to channel mine and so far, I've got over 10,000 words down on paper, but I don't feel confident enough yet when people ask me what I do to reply "Oh, I'm a writer."

It would be lovely to hear your thoughts on books, or anything in general so please feel free to leave a comment below.

Happy reading fellow bookworms!!!



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