Hannah Elizabeth

It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I write today's post. On Tuesday 9th July 2019, my family and I lost one of our puppies. Tilly had been deteriorating for the past couple of weeks and it started with her becoming paralysed in her back legs. She was still happy and being her normal self however in the last few days she became very unwell and we made the decision to put her to sleep. Unfortunately it wasn't the best experience as all her veins had collapsed so after multiple attempts, she was given pain relief and a paralytic drug before being injected into her heart and kidney. I had hoped I would get to see her one last time before she passed but obviously, she is in a better place now and needed to go sooner. She leaves behind my poor Holly, her sister and litter mate. They have been together for all but 24 hours at a time on a handful of occasions so I'm not entirely sure how she'll cope but we are giving her lots of extra love and attention at th...

The Wonder Circus was a completely last-minute decision on the way back from a day trip to Skegness. To be quite honest, I was exhausted and didn’t have very high expectations, so I was very shocked to enjoy it – almost – from start to finish. We ended up paying the extra pound to sit front row ring side and I don’t necessarily think it was needed. I think because it was so quiet, we would have had a good view anyway and for some of the acts, sitting further away would have actually been beneficial. The tent is climatized meaning that despite the humid and hot weather, inside felt cool and a nice temperature. The seats were very hard and uncomfortable, and they were packed very closely together. I’m pretty short and I struggled to sit without my knees having to be at weird angles. Luckily, the show was very quiet and with no one seated behind us, we pushed our seats all the way back, so we could at least somewhat, extend our legs for the 2 hour duration of the show. With the incre...

Shooting badly, my midwifery OSCE and a day trip to Skegness! Click here to watch the vlog or see below. My super busy week began with a couple of sessions of archery. I had a lovely week of essay writing split by a few breaks of archery. The sessions were relatively quiet so there was just 3 of us at the pub for lunch but it was by a canal and actually really lovely. I was strangely calm about my essay and instead of the usual 8 full days plus getting my dad to check, I spent just 3 full days and didn't have anyone check as my dad was unfortunately on holiday. We shall see what the results say in 3 weeks time! The next session, I made quite a few changes to my bow so it wasn't quite working out. In fact, it hasn't really worked out since I first started shooting with my bow but I've decided I'm just going to have fun rather than try to get good. Anyway, I made the poundage heavier, switched arrows, started using a click, adjusted my tab and I'm sure ...