1) Get to Edinburgh for the Comedy Fringe – Comedy is a massive passion of mine, so hopefully for my birthday in August I’ll be mixing with the best of them at the fringe. Fingers crossed on this one!
2) Dive at least once a month – I haven’t been regularly in the water for some time due to ankles and ears and their associated problems, so I have hunted down a new dive club and hope to get diving more often. It’s just a pain it’s an hour drive and then a few more to the sea – oh well!
3) Visit Barbados once more – Well, as it happens I’m going, it’s an open invite to all to come along – you can see the details here so I won’t bang on too much. They say 5 times and you are a local on the Island, I’m getting there!
4) Perform 1 stand up routine to more people than my family – Watch this space…
5) Grow my business – I had to have one sensible one in there! Plenty of plans already in motion here!
6) Visit at least 1 think visibility and 1 a4u expo and actually sit in some sessions – Hopefully see you all at some sessions throughout the year.
7) Move out of my parents house – Sorry Dad, I’m already looking at places! Just need to decide where in the country I want to be, with friends all over it’s a hard decision!
8.) Change at least 1 persons life – Although I do loan out through KIVA, sometimes you need to help in a more hands on way. I loved volunteering at hospital radio, so I’m going to find a project near by where I can hopefully help make a difference. An hour a week is not a lot to give I don’t think.
9) Lose weight (come on – it had to be there) – Yeah yeah, I know – but I do need to shed a few pounds for the sake of my dodgy knees. Too much time sat at a desk and not enough moving is not a healthy way to live, so hopefully I can find a sport that doesn’t impact on my knees too badly nor make me look ridiculous!
10) Find some love in my life – Tinker, whilst giving cuddles at night, just isn’t a great conversationalist! Watch out boys, I’m looking for love!
11) Visit Friends More – I have friends all over, I have made promises to visit Swansea, Plymouth, London, Oxford, Newcastle and more – bring on the driving tunes!
12) Aptly I’ll finish on 12. I want to learn a new word each day! There must be an app for that?

January
Car Crash
Random filming with Josh in a loft with Coronation Street Porn
Alexandra Burke

February
Ciaran had a special birthday
A gift from the Ducks
Monkey moved out
Went to see Mark Watson

March
Tinker joined Twitter
Bought a new car
Knee Xrays
A special engagement
Plymtwest

April
The Royal Wedding
Terri’s Birthday
EFR and Rescue Diver Course (attempt one)
Badly sprained ankle and chipped bone in my foot
Got hit by a reduced turkey leg
More random moors filming with Josh
Cakes from Gem

May
got dodgy knee confirmation
went to visit Krystle and others
Tinker turned 2
Watched alot of Dexter
My favourite bowl died

June
Zak came to visit
I turned blonde
#bigwedding
size 12 dress
got bitten, alot
Went out with the English teachers
Attempt 2 at Rescue Diver (bad ears)
one of mystery, cornish lands, 3 yr old squirrel killers, lobster pots, ferry’s, sheet plastic, spiders and nails…
Zak turned 2
Jacob turned 1
Handed my notice in

July
4th July BBQ at maggies
Sausages and Cider
Google+
Shit in a bin (not me)
Joined the mobile internet revolution
Packed
Sent Tinker and my belongings home early

August
A night in a pop up play tent
Surprise brownies
Had a birthday
Car died a few times
BBQ
Left work
Jason Manford
Peter Andre / worst hangover ever
Hotel room flannels
Court case

September
Business launch
Dentist
Northern sleepover
Facebook Timeline
whiteboard

October
Peter Kay
Powercut
Cheesecake
Matt Cardle
£3.99 meal
Big knives in Manchester with Josh

November
Business cards
Webinars
Sheffield Meet Up
Babies born (not mine)
WWE Sheffield
Mick Foley Stand Up Tour
Towel Origami
The Piracy

December
Christmas Cards
Grandma’s 80th
Snow
Decorations
Girly sleepovers
Wakefield Curries
Rumble Sales
Christmas
Generous friends and clients
Affiliate Getaway Launched
Christmas crap
The Rams

Here’s to an equally eventful 2012!

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Almost 24 hours later and over 5000 homes are still without power!

I’m currently working from my Nan’s house, trying to get something productive done and to charge my phone!

More info here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-15285462
http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local-news/matlock_power_cut_latest_1_3865623

A month on and I haven’t looked back!!!

Things are going really well with the business, old friends are peeping out of the woodwork and I have been up and down the country so much I’m yet to really annoy the parents! Fabulous!

Here is to the next few months!

Hannah x

- I left Existem AM after 3 years
- I moved back in with my parents to Derbyshire
- I turned 26

Most importantly…

- I launched my very own business!

Bright Digital Minds launched on Tuesday 6th September 2011 after lot’s of late nights and long days with the lovely site designer Zak. Set up to help all the small to medium businesses out there manage their social media and blogs, something that should be done, but is quite often shoved to the bottom of the list due to time and resource constraints.
Specialising in training and consultancy along with hands on management, Bright Digital Minds offer a cost-effective outsourced solution to help grow your brand and increase your brand advocates online.

Official blurb over, I am loving being my own boss! I can spend time with my lovely nephew without having to be on a lunch break, I can nip out to the shop to get a paper and best of all – I can wake up at 9am and not worry!

Watch this space, I’ll be bringing you all updates as things move along! If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch!

x

So, I’m now 25, moving speedily towards 26 and I’m the owner of 1.5 cats (see previous posts for more on that). I live exactly 273 miles away from home and it seems like all of my nearest and dearest are getting married or popping out babies (or both)! Me I’m still trundling along in my singledom waiting for my Prince Charming – as I think most girls do to a certain extent! Damn you Disney!

And so – the reason for my blog post, the thing some of you may have guessed by now. I’m leaving EAM, leaving Plymouth and heading home! That’s right campers! After almost 3 years here – I decided that it was time for me to pack up my troubles in my old kit bag, and run off back to Mummy and Daddy Swift. Since I moved here I became an Auntie and have missed the first few years of many of my closest friends, childrens lives. I have missed weddings and divorces, illnesses and most of all my family.

I’m doing something that to be honest I have been quite snobbish about in the past. I said I would never move home, never go back to the small town I grew up in, but at least for the time being, that’s where I’ll be. Luckily/Unluckily for me, I had a car crash earlier this year which meant i had some cash hanging around, it also made me reconsider life. Although the crash was by no means bad, it was enough to shake me.

Work you might ask? As gutted as I am to be leaving EAM, after 3 years, it’d be hard not to be a little upset – let’s face it. I have to go! So I’m being brave/stupid and moving without any work to go to. I have a little cash set aside to pay my way, and hopefully my lovely parents will not charge me too much in rent! (I know you read this Dad, so take the hint )

All I will say for now is;

- Thanks for reading
- Keep in touch
- Watch this space!

Hannah xxx

Let’s start with the usual suspects;
Gmail
Email
Twitter
Facebook
Google+
eBay

Now to the less obvious…
iGeology
Volcano Report
Scuba Exam Lite
Earthquake!
Speak It
Bajan Lingo
Urban Dictionary
New Scientist
QR Droid
SCUBA Log
Science Facts
Caribbean Foods
Mixology

I am a total science/scuba geek!

I would give you a link to them all – but that is far too easy! So go, scoot, find the pretties!

Over and out

xxx

p.s – I have only had this phone for a small amount of time – so all recommendations are welcome!

There were – 4 types of mash, beans or green beans, 3 types of gravy and SEVEN TYPES OF SAUSAGE!!! Never mind the extensive selection of over 21 ciders!

Cider List
Brimblecombe Rum Conditioned 10.0% A.B.V.
Brimblecombe 2004 Vintage 10.0%
Countryman Gold 7.0%
Green Valley Strong Traditional Medium 6.8%
Brimblecombe Blackcurrant 6.5%
Brimblecombe Medium Farmhouse 6.5%
Brimblecombe Dry Farmhouse 6.5%
Countryman Medium 6.5%
Countryman Dry 6.5%
Grays Sweet 6.5%
Grays Medium 6.5%
Grays Dry 6.5%
Grays Sweet 6.5%
Grays Medium 6.5%
Grays Dry 6.5%
Hunts Sweet 6.0%
Hunts Medium 6.0%
Hunts Dry 6.0%
Green Valley Traditional Sweet 5.5%
Green Valley Traditional Medium 5.5%
Green Valley Traditional Dry 5.5%
Cornish Orchards Medium 4.5%
Skinners Press Gang 4.5%
Winkleigh Devon Cider 4.5%
Green Valley Strawberry 4.0%
Gernit Sniffler Mary Tavy %?

Sausage List
Spicy Spanish
Black Pudding & Bacon
Honey Roast
Butchers Banger
Beer & Beef
Pork Cider
Vegetarian
Plus a few secret varieties

What can I say – I was more than slightly tiddled after a few ciders, and then spent the weekend craving more sausages! I’m off to find the local butcher who supplied the sausages – Moostone Farm in Wembury to order a box of meat from them! Can life get any better than a box of meat turning up on your door – no, I thought not!

Big thanks to Terri, Martyn, Dean, Paula, Tom, Tracey and Richard for making the day so ‘eventful’ and just brilliant!