Date: 5/24/2008

No frills, lifes a beach!

Well thought i'd write something possibly meaningless to most, but this is me, my past, and maybe some of the reasons, of why i am me, i grew up in a loving family, i count myself lucky there, i was the 3rd child of 4, the only girl, it was hard to contend with 3 brothers at times. I grew up on an average council estate, and went to an average school. My father worked in a car building plant till the 80's resession hit, when he was made redundant in 86, i was 10 at this point. My mum, since she'd had us children, had been a housewife. At the age of 8 i'd begun riding horses which was my passion, i worked at a local riding school from dawn to dusk, for a free ride at the end of each weekend day, my family lived below the poverty line, like most unemployed families at this time. I was my daddy's little girl, but at the age of 11 my father was diagnosised with bowel cancer, which spread quickly to his liver and other major organs, for the next two years i watched my father waste away and die.At 13yo my world imploded. But i learnt a valuable lesson not to waste life and the chances it gives, also not to worry about the little things in life that truly don't matter. I carried on growing up with the heartache of losing my father, to be honest i think i must have been in my early twenties when i finally got over it. At the age of 18 i started fulltime work, and saved up to buy a horse of my very own, after spending 10yrs looking after everyone elses it was like a dream come true, ive still got my best mate of 15yrs Rob(for pic c wapsite). He still means so much to me, i dread the day i lose him. I got into the bikes when i was around 23, i bought a cg125, and did my cbt. I waited years before i bought the bike i always wanted, the cbr600. Ive never been lucky in love, never wanted to feel the hurt i felt, when i lost my father, so i stayed clear of anything major but ive enjoyed my single life thou, it's made me very independant, but ive had to be...


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