About

I’m wondering whether it’s possible to write a section about myself that doesn’t sound terribly cliché or annoying? I don’t particularly want it to be either so I’ll do my best, but I was dreading writing this bit so much I was seriously considering skipping it and introducing you to my dog instead…in my opinion a far more interesting yet less complex being that is pretty much always happy unless she’s told she can’t have anything else to eat or to get off the sofa!

Anyway, I’m distracting myself from the unavoidable task of telling you a little bit about myself, so that there’s some context as to why I’ve ended up reasonably drastically changing my life, which has bought me to starting this blog.

I’m a thirty something year old, can I still call myself a girl? No probably not, women then, who has spent the last God knows how long trying to figure out who I am and what I’m all about. (I’ll let you in on a secret…I still have no idea!)

My passion has always lay in childcare, having been a nursery nurse from the age of 18 and then becoming a childminder from 2015 until mid 2023. I have however, dabbled in other jobs, but it didn’t take long for me to realise they really weren’t going to make me feel very fulfilled, on either a daily basis or a more long term one, so I always found myself reverting back to childcare. I have written a blog entry that goes into things a bit deeper, as to why I left a career I loved, you can read about that here.

I’m also particularly passionate about women’s football. I learnt to play almost as soon as I could walk and it never phased me having to play with the boys, which is a good thing really because I didn’t have much choice back in the early 90’s! My Dad will always joke that he avoided the freezing Sunday morning sidelines with my two older brothers, just to have a daughter who loved the game instead. What he then negates to tell people is that he grew to love it and became my teams assistant manager. (So don’t feel too sorry for him!)

That passion, along with my ability to be pretty head strong, has given me the confidence to stand up and support the push for equality in the women’s game and beyond. Be it in women’s sports, business, jobs and general society. I mean what real reason is there for us women to not live equally to men at this point? Believe me there is no genuine and legitimate answer to that, I’ve searched for it, it doesn’t exist.

Environmental issues also sit as close to my heart as possible, it should sit that close for all of us that inhabit this Earth to be honest and it baffles me as to why it doesn’t? I have made a lot of lifestyle changes along with my husband, to try and lessen our impact on the planet, although I do not claim to be perfect, not anywhere near. I mean we live in a van for a start, a diesel van! And again this is something I will write about in a blog post.

I am damned if I will sit back and let human kind ruin this planet any more than we already have (not without putting up a fight at least). And it’s important not to forget, our planet Earth has come back from the brink of destruction on many occasions in it’s history, it will be humans that don’t survive, not the planet.

I’m hoping that this page, my blog posts and the rest of it, can be a bit of an eye opener and support for others that might have wondered what it’s like to live a life free from paying the mortgage or rent, or doing a 9-5 job. Not that any of that is necessarily the ‘wrong’ way to live, I just recognise that it isn’t the right way for everyone. So as this is all fairy new to me, I felt it the best time to start so that people can see and read about the reality of it all and well, lets just see what happens I guess!