As much as I talk about my life and adventures, you might not know me that well! I share a lot of my life on Twitter and Insta but I love a good personal blog post to get to know the blogger. Old school blog days used to be full of these sort of posts so let’s take it back 5 years and get to know me! Especially if you’re new here, Hi, welcome!
I grew up in Suffolk.
Although I’ve lived in five places in the last 5 years, I’m actually from Newmarket in Suffolk. It’s quite a quiet town but it’s famous for it’s horse racing. It was always a good place to grow up to have friends in, you could spend the whole day on your bike and go from one end of town to another. There are some decent restaurants there but not so much on the shop front. Good if you fancy a day out of the city! My family and school friends still live there so we visit all the time.
I’ve always wanted to be a journalist since the age of 13.
And now I’m the editor of a magazine?! It’s crazy how time has flown and I’m finally back in my journalism roots. But I distinctly remember being 13 buying endless Woolworths refill pads and writing my ideas and thoughts down. I just went with my gut, had work experience at a paper and kept going with it. I did Print-Based Media at college and then went on to do Journalism at university. I started a blog, became a Northamptonshire lifestyle blog and since then I’ve done a lot of online marketing and digital work but now I’m back writing and reporting which is great to use all my skills.
It took me 5 tests, 2 years and 5000 miles to pass my driving test.
So, I may be a little slow at passing my test. However I’m pleased to say I can drive now and I think quite well infact. It was incredibly frustrating to not drive especially once I moved out of London because it was so annoying relying on lifts or trains all the time. Now I’ve had two cars and am driving a Nissan Juke that I LOVE. I’ve already driven 7000 miles since August and had a C1 since passing last November so I’ve been busy on the mileage front! Unfortunately I just seemed to find it hard to pass the test. I would know exactly what to do and just lose it when it came to the examination. (I’m definitely more an academic than a practical person.)
I don’t have a thousand friends and that’s ok!
A thousand friends is obviously an exaggeration but I’m just not that popular. Ever since school I just never got on with people. I’m not sure why, but if I wasn’t being bullied or fell out with people, I just didn’t keep a group for a long time. In year 11 there was a big old group of us which was amazing but as things do, we all went separate ways. At uni, I created a lovely little gang that I keep in touch with and some of them I see every month or so. However, making friends when you’re in your twenties is so hard and so it’s something I’m consciously trying to do more.
You don’t realise who else is feeling lonely and just going out for dinner or chatting online helps build those relationships! There are so many people who come into your life, act like your best friend then give up on you pretty quickly and I’m not interested in that anymore. I’d rather have a good handful of friends who I can talk to every now and then and hang out with every few months than have ‘my girls’ and it not really mean anything apart from looking good on insta.
I know what I want.
Sometimes this is a bit of a issue but I’m very driven and if there’s something I want, there’s not much that’s going to change my mind. I can make decisions very quickly and I will impulse buy most things. I wouldn’t say I overspend or anything but like when I wanted my cars. I knew exactly what I wanted, test drove and bought within the same weekend. When it came to buying our house, I knew it was the one instantly. I think I frustrate Dan sometimes with my lack of thought on some things but if you want it, why waste time!
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