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Introduction

My name is Hannah, I'm 20 years old and I live in Gloucester with my Fiancée (Who'll be known here as DragonBoy) and two crazy ass hamsters.

I suppose primarily I'm an Animal Behaviourist, If I'm not then I've pretty much wasted 3 years of my life and £18,000 on my BSc Degree in Animal Behaviour and Welfare that hopefully I will be graduating from this summer!


Since all work and no play makes jack a dull boy faceless a dull Girl I have a lot of hobbies.

I knit, I've been knitting for around 3 years now and have made pretty much everything from hats and Scarves to a jumper for myself recently. Current projects include lots and lots of hats for Charity. I hope to have some free patterns available on this blog before too long as well.

I also sew, spin yarn and reclaim yarn from Jumpers and T-Shirts when I have the time. I hope to have a large craft focus in this blog in the future. I'd also *love* to get into dyeing as well and maybe I will soon xD

I'm also interested in keeping fit and I'm trying to loose weight. I'm a very very slow looser, from the start of 2010 I've lost around 20lbs. I still have a long way to go, and I've not really been on plan all of that time either. I'm hoping that a change in my home life, which is occurring practically this week will help me to shed the last 20-40-60-?? that I would like to loose.

Though I don't try and dwell on it I do have a long term condition called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). This condition which is also known in some places as ME or Fibro basically causes large amounts of pain on a daily basis. It's not uncommon for me at the end of a day to just sit and *ache* all over, it also comes with large amounts of joint sensitivity and brain fog in my case. I try to do my best, but if there's posts talking about how I've just slept for 12+ hours don't be alarmed!

I'm also an amateur photographer, with a high focus on animal based work and recording my day to day life. They say a blog is "made" by the pictures that are there so I hope that I can keep it interesting though that!

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