10 facts about ME - My readers don't know.

I thought it was time to share a little more about myself. So, I decided I would give you the chance to get to know me a little better by sharing 10 facts about myself.

1. When I was a kid I used to be a tomboy. I loved football and even played the sport with the boys.
2. I love to perform, I am currently in the Pendle Youth Choir, but if I ever got a chance to perform professionally I would do it in a heartbeat, because it is so liberating.
3. Being different has been my greatest strength, because it has allowed me to achieve new things and gain new opportunities such as this blog and flying to Germany to meet my family for the German Grand Prix last year. It was the perfect family memory.
4. I nearly went to live in America, but I said NO. My life could have been a very different one right now.
5. My favourite film of all time is The Brooke Ellison Story (click the title to see a summary and discussion of this film), because it is a story about liberation - any women can achieve anything regardless of the circumstance. It also represents the strength of mothers across the world. I love my mamma.
6. I was told that I would not walk and now I walk and I am two months from completing my degree in Education (Special Educational Needs). I have to say I am proud each and every day I wake up and achieve something new.
7. Writing is my adrenaline, it helps me deal with all the challenges life has thrown at me. If I am sad, happy, angry or upset, I write my way through it.
8. When I was a kid, I had a crush on Chandler Bing,  played by Matthew Perry in Friends.
9. When I was a young kid, I wanted to be just like my Pops - an accountant. (I call my Dad, Pops always have done, always will).
10. I used to have a phobia to dogs, even though I now have 2 dogs, Ruby and Bella, they are pugs.

Do you know any of these facts previously? Would you like to share a fact about yourself?

The Right to Love

It has taken me a while to write this post but here goes. I was recently watching The Imitation Game I was enchanted by this brilliant portrayal of a man who lived a life of shadows. Alan Turing was the World War Two Codebreaker who was persecuted for being gay. To not be able to love someone because it was illegal must have created paradigm shifting levels of heartbreak inside, but to find your true love at 14 for it to be taken away from you, must go beyond any imagination conceivable. I am glad that I now know his story, because everyone deserves love in their lives from whomever they choose.

Sign the petition below to honour Alan's legacy and lets take the burden away from the other 49000 men who were prosecuted for being gay.


https://www.change.org/p/british-government-pardon-all-of-the-estimated-49-000-men-who-like-alan-turing-were-convicted-of-consenting-same-sex-relations-under-the-british-gross-indecency-law-only-repealed-in-2003-and-also-all-the-other-men-convicted-under-other-uk-anti-gay