It was 9.54am when I awoke fully from my slumber, alone in bed. The room was beginning to heat up rapidly. If the weather forecast was correct, it was going to be a very hot day, which meant humid too....
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I’d left school at eighteen years of age, to find employment with a small and family owned and run accountancy firm. Each year, the company would take on two school-leavers and guide them to qualify as accountants. With their new...
Let me begin by painting a picture. With fifteen minutes until the lunch bell rang, I was in the girls toilets at school, completely naked, standing on tiptoes, arms stretched above my head, wrists bound by school ties, and securely...
Extreme weather in weather in England is rare but when it strikes, it grinds the country to a standstill, we are simply ill-equipped to cope. The weather forecast was for the country to be hit by something, the press had...
It had been a normal, ordinary day. Early summer, pleasantly warm but by no means hot. Wearing a mid-thigh summer dress and open-toed shoes, I’d walked the twenty-five minutes across open fields, into town and to work. Having only worked...
11.30 am and I began to stir, sun streaming through the curtains, the bedroom warming up by the minute. It was day two of my two-week stay with twins, Cassie and Zach. During our first night, the three of us...
Having learned to swim when I was eight years old, I then joined my local swimming club. Soon, I was swimming competitively, splitting time between study and competition. The older I became, so my swimming progressed, all the way to...
It was only a few days earlier, where my focus was to complete the last of my GCSE school exams, recover from a thigh strain and prepare for the upcoming National Swimming Championships. Friends were either, study partners or those...
Finally, the day had arrived where I could be a normal teenage girl. For years, my dream or focus was to maximise my ability as a swimmer. The lure of an Olympic medal and good school results were the driving...