I'm nearly two weeks late in writing this because World Baton Twirling Day was on 10th April and today is the 21st. Wooops. If I said I'd been super busy then that would be totally true and is truly the reason why I haven't posted in a little while. Well that and I've been away [...]
Reality shows. Love them or hate them, you can't deny that they do (well most of them!) capture the publics imagination. There are new ideas for reality shows all the time, only some get created and aired and only a handful of them are 'successful'. I'm certainly no expert on television, or what makes a [...]
Here's a fact about me that you might not know - I used to be a baton twirler. And not only that, I was a National, European and World Championship winning baton twirler. And then I was a National, European and World Championship winning baton twirling coach. And it takes a lot of love, dedication [...]
This coming week is the school half term holidays across much of England and Wales. And this is a week that always holds a special place in my heart. That's because for 26 years on the trot I spent the week in Torbay, Devon at the National Baton Twirling Association national championships. The last two [...]
I'm back! Yay! And I've had the most fabulous 11 days in Canada. What a truly fabulous place it is. I've got so much to write about from my trip that I'm splitting it down into a three part series. Today, part 1 is about the Invictus Games that were on in Toronto. I didn't [...]
Whenever I used to say to anyone that I was a 'twirler', I often got comments such as "oh you mean like majorettes?" or, "does that mean you do carnivals and stuff?". Well actually, no, it doesn't mean that. And I spent my whole twirling career trying to explain what baton twirling really meant. When [...]
