38 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes and 33 seconds...

Olympic rehearsals are stepping up a gear this week.  We have now finished rehearsals at the Dagenham site which means this Thursday we move to the Olympic stadium.  Yes the Olympic Stadium! I can't wait. 


To add to the excitement, our Olympic tickets to see the Dressage arrived in the post. 


Just 38 days to go until the greatest show on earth!  

Baby Benjamin

Here are a couple of photos of my new baby nephew.  


We went over to Sheffield last Tuesday and spent a lovely few hours sitting outside in my half sisters garden, drinking tea and chatting.

Lovely lovely.

Counting sheep

I’m so tired. I try to go to sleep and then can’t. I really do not understand this ridiculous pattern I have once again managed to get myself in to.

I don’t really know why my body decides to do this to me? I got home today, started shaking and managed to sleep for a couple of hours. I’m now walking round the house in a sort of daze. I have dance in less than an hour and I am trying to summon the energy to go to the three classes.

Now I’m not even sure I want to post this entry. I hate how self pitying it sounds.

Urg. 

Goodbye April, Hello May.

Are we really in May already? When I was little, time seemed to go ever so slowly. Christmas Eve seemed like the longest day, if anything time seemed to go extra slowly. The 6 week summer holidays we used to get in school seemed to last forever.  Now 6 weeks goes by in a second and quite honestly I hardly have time to stop and think about it.

I had a panic this week because I somehow lost my diary.  Now when I told some of my friends that I had lost it, the response was “Well it’s only a diary, just buy a new one” The thing is, it may only just be a diary, but that diary has everything in it. I write all that I need to do for each day, week and month in it. I was completely lost without it. My weeks seem to have become quite busy and the only way I can keep track of what I’m doing is to write it all down. Anyway...thankfully (after a week of stress) it was found, returned to me and I can breathe a sigh of relief.

During April I got the opportunity to work on a fantastic new show called ‘Fat Brenda: My Flamin’ Story’ which was premiered at Harrogate Theatre. Written by the lovely Joe Parkinson and played by the wonderful Steve Huison. It was a pleasure to be just a small part of such an amazing show.  Watch out for it!

I can hardly believe I am now in my fourth week of dance rehearsals for the Olympic Opening Ceremony.  It has been so exciting to be a part of so far. I tried on my costume yesterday which I must admit is pretty epic.

The days are getting longer and lighter which makes me happy. I always feel much better when the weather is nice. I hope it gets warm and sunny soon. 

:)

"Happiness isn’t a person, place or thing. Relatively speaking, it’s not found in anything other than yourself. But we forget that and we bury it within others to hold, store and keep thinking they’ll always have it when we want it back. And when we’re sad, we blame them for our loss. But it’s always there, you just have to choose to be happy."

This evening

I spent tonight making a little card for my grandparents. I love drawing, I find it very relaxing...I think I need to find the time to do it more often. Anyway, I thought I would share this picture. Sorry it's a bit blurry (blame my iphone) 
I drew a puppy, hope you like him!

A Spofforth Sunset...

Driving into my village yesterday, I had to stop and take a picture of the sunset over Spofforth Castle.  Beautiful isn't it.

The days are getting lighter, this makes me happy.