Success in Sussex – also known as a bathful of blubber

Wow, what a success story to report! 

We were all quite nervous last night, waiting to be weighed and measured, but needn’t have been at all.  Sadly one of our group, Julie, couldn’t make it, but between the remaining six of us, we had lost the equivalent weight of a six year old child!  Is that amazing or what?  Russell explained something about fat weighing half as much as water and so the equivalent volume we had lost would fill a bath with blubber.  Now that is a disgusting thought, but hey, better to have it in the bath than in the body.  A psychologist would probably say that visualising all that horrible fat being washed down the plug hole is a metaphor for us washing it all out of our bodies – I’m sure there must be something deep and meaningful about it anyway!

In terms of size, the six of us had lost 52 inches which is astounding.  The total is made up the inch losses from bust, waist, hips and one thigh from all of us.  To be honest none of us understood why we only count one thigh, as we all have two of them and as none of us are now unbalanced and wobbly, so we must have lost the same off each thigh.  But them’s the rules apparently.

Personally I was extremely pleased with my own results – a loss of nearly 9lbs and 10.5 inches – just the one thigh though!  Considering I really didn’t get into this properly for the first few weeks as I struggled too long with trying to drink two litres of water a day, I’m amazed.

And all this without a diet, without getting into that awful mental condition that goes with dieting and without being starving hungry or exhausted all the time.

I honestly don’t think I could have done it without Russell and the rest of the group.  The support and encouragement from them all has been wonderful.  We’ve been treated like the thinking, intelligent women we all are, not patronised or spoken to like we’re children, and that respect has been mutual.  Russell is a natural at this and I think we’ve all become very fond of him.

So hat’s off to Russell, Pete Cohen and Freedom Leisure.  This has been a truly rewarding experience and one that we all intend to continue – we’re waiting for Russell to confirm the time for us all to meet next week for a catch up and exercise class.

It’s d-day today – or should I say w-day

Unbelievably eight weeks has passed already and today is the last day on our Pete Cohen course.  It really seems amazing that is has been eight weeks since I began this journey, but boy what a lot I’ve learned.

Last Monday we had a great session, with everyone very positive and having had a good week.  The exercise session was hard but achievable - I wouldn’t expect anything else from Russell now. Now  I’ve had a very positive week, did my 30 minutes of walking or an excercise session every day and kept caffeine and alcohol free for every day bar one – I had some wine with my lunch yesterday as I was treated to a lovely lunch at the Griffin in Fletching for Mothers Day.  It was lovely drinking the wine but more than ever I realised I love wine for its flavours not its inebriative effects.  Just two glasses made me feel totally squiffy and by 9pm I had a dreadful headache.  I really didn’t expect there to be such an obvious link between such a little alcohol and a bad head!  But I survived and will try to keep clear of alcohol for the rest of Lent.

I know I’ve lost some weight but it will be interesting to see how much – and how many inches.  Russell has warned us not to expect too much as all our excercise will have built muscle, which weighs more than fat for the same volume.  My muscle tone has improved considerably and I’ve noticed that I ache less after horse riding and can trot and canter for longer periods before I get tired.  I’ve also noticed that I seem to have a better lung capacity when I’m singing – I sing in a couple of choirs as I find it very good for de-stressing.

I’m very keen to continue with the whole Pete Cohen plan, as do all the other girls on the course.  Some would happily sign up again for the whole 8 week course, which says a lot for how good it is.  We’re all planning to continue meeting every Monday up at Freedom Leisure Uckfield and Russell is going to put on an exercise class just for us.  We thought we’d chat together for 15 minutes and then have a 45 minute session, varying resistance exercise with some spinning or other forms of exercise that we’ve wanted to try but were all nervous of going into established classes with lots of fit, skinny women to make us feel inadequate!

So tonight we’ll find out what Russell can organise for us AND we’ll all be weighed and measured to see what we’ve actually done to physically change in the 7 weeks we’ve followed Pete’s plan.  Psychologically we’ve all come a long way – huge amounts of positivity, more self-confidence and self-belief that we can change our bad habits.  As Russell predicted, just the change in what we wear to exercise in reflects a very different feeling – from baggy, shapeless t-shirts, to figure-hugging tops and leggings.

I’ll lot on tomorrow for my final blog to report the full results.

Ahh, the bliss of routine

After the half term week when I totally lost all sense of routine, it was back to school for the kids and catch up time for me.

My gut feel that the loss of routine is a general problem was borne out at our meeting last Monday when our three teachers also admitted that things had gone a bit pear-shaped for them.  Whether it was the simple act of not drinking enough water or the opposite of drinking too much wine at various celebrations, we had all suffered.

But as ever Russell’s permanent good humour and unfailing positive approach made us all feel better about our slip ups and we vowed to improve in the coming week.

And improve we did.  For myself I was able to re-instigate my morning 30 minute walk with my dog after dropping my youngest off at school.  I embraced my new tool “no caffeine or sweet things” and really enjoyed drinking my herbal and redbush tea.  I cut out my glass of wine with my evening meal too, although must confess to drinking two glasses of Prosecco at a party on Saturday evening in Brighton.  But those two glasses were less than I would normally have imbibed at a party, so I still finished the evening feeling quite self-satisfied. 

That self-satisfaction disappeared completely by Sunday morning.  After a very disturbed night caring for my daughter who had a temperature of 102.8 I finally woke feeling like I’d been hit by a bus.  The aftermath of those two glasses felt more like I’d drunk two bottles!  Curiously my husband felt just as bad after only two half pints of beer, so maybe we’d caught my daughter’s bug.  Whatever it was, we ended up cancelling Sunday lunch with my mum and stayed in bed until 3pm – something I haven’t ever done before.  Son number two felt unwell too, so we were a right poorly bunch.

Come Monday I felt better although the children weren’t and my daughter’s high temperature was joined by her asthma flaring up, so she stayed home for the day along with Son Number Two whose neck was full of swollen glands.  Still it was a beautiful day so I still got my half hours walk but for the first time this year it was in the sunshine instead of the rain.  Even the children admitted to enjoying it!

On Monday night we had our sixth meeting up at Freedom Leisure with Russell – it’s hard to believe we’ve only got another two to go.  The time really has zoomed by and we’ve really started to gel as a group.  We were down to just four of us though as three are off in the Isle of Wight on school journey.  Somehow I doubt they’ll be able to keep to the rules during what will be a very stressful week, but at least it seems that the weather has turned nice for them.

Those of us who made it had a variety of stories to tell.  Poor Mary has been pretty unwell with a horrible tummy bug, which explained her absence last week.  She told us how she has started to incorporate some of Pete’s tools into her work as a school nurse, advising children who are overweight to use the simple tools of eating slowly, stop eating when you’re not hungry anymore and drink more water.  It makes such sense and hopefully will be as helpful to the children as it is to us adults.  If’ only we’d learned that when young we wouldn’t be having to do the course now.  I’m of the generation that was told to eat up because there were starving children in Biafra.  My usual riposte that I would package up my sprouts and send them to Africa never had the effect I wanted, but the principle of having to clear my plate has stuck for forty years.

Eva has been doing incredibly well on the course and her weight loss is quite visible.  What with her cycling, extra gym sessions and even a water aerobics session this week, her exercise regime has made a huge change and is a great example to us all.  Her continual positivity and certainty that she will reach her goal is fabulous to see.

Julie didn’t make it last week either as her parents were visiting from Scotland, but this week she returned to regale us with stories of roast dinners cooked for her!  That said, she has also visibly lost weight and finds drinking all that water very easy.

Our discussion this week covered so many topics but at the forefront was alcohol – why we drink it, why we like it and what damage it can do.  We all had personal experiences of loved ones with alcohol problems and it does seem amazing that the government spends so much money on anti-smoking activity and legislation but seems to do nothing about the alcohol problem which probably causes more social and economic costs than anything. 

Mary said that the official figure is that 92% of fights resulting in hospitalization are alcohol related or exacerbated.  Smokers might give themselves lung cancer but they don’t beat up people on the streets or abuse hospital staff whilst they are wrecking their livers.   We all felt that alcohol has just got too cheap and discounting it at supermarkets should not be allowed.

After our “let’s change the world” discussion, it was down to the studio for another of Russell’s torture exercise sessions!  Last week he changed things around and toughened things up considerably – in fact I couldn’t walk properly for a couple of days afterwards.  This week was no different.

We had eight stations on the circuit, all of them involving both legs and arms, and this time had to do 60 seconds at each of them.  We then had a short break and did the whole thing again.  The hardest station for me was the step – I have short legs so going up 5 levels was really hard.  I was absolutely exhausted afterwards – after two broken nights’ sleep my energy levels were already pretty depleted but that emptied them.  We all felt the same I think – but on a positive note recognised that we wouldn’t have been able to do one circuit at that intensity five weeks ago, let alone the two circuits we all managed. 

On the way back to the car my knees kept giving way!  But I had a nice relaxing bath when I got home so at least I’m not crippled today.  And today the sun is shining again – that always makes me feel better.

So I now need to take myself in hand and be a lot stricter in terms of cutting out the sugary foods and keeping my alcohol intake down, especially after all that preaching earlier.  That, combined with the exercise and extra fluid, will make a huge difference and I now have a new, more immediate goal ahead of  me – my husband and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in April and I’ve planned a big party.  It’s a great excuse for a lovely new dress and I intend for that dress to be at least two sizes smaller than it would have been this time last year!  So, I’ve got my work cut out for me.  Onward and Upwards!

Routine goes to pot in half term

Oh dear, I’ve not had a good week. And it’s been much too long since I wrote my last post. Sorry!

But I’ve learned some good lessons. Everything that Pete Cohen says about habits is true and learning new ones is the key to making this whole thing work properly.

This past week was half term for my three children. That meant no dropping off youngest at school and then taking the dog for a walk. Dog stayed at home with older two and youngest went to the Freedom Leisure club all week. He really loves it as there is so much to do and lots of other children to play with. But that meant my routine went to pot. No dog to walk meant no walk for me – and coupled with the atrocious weather and having to be on a train at 7am one morning up to London – I really didn’t do the physical activity I should have done. I’m feeling very guilty.

However, I did go horseriding on Saturday and was lucky that it didn’t rain although was so cold my feet went numb and it started to snow just as we finished. But that was a good hour of exercise – lots of rising trots to get my thighs and tummy muscles working hard. I was amazed that afterwards my jodpurs felt really loose and seemed to be slipping down, so I guess I must have lost some inches through toning the muscles even if I haven’t lost any weight, which I haven’t checked yet (very hard to resist those scales but I’ve done it).

Last Monday’s meeting was good – the rest of my group are doing really well although most admitted to not having had a great week. But Russell our trainer was so positive and encouraging that no one went home feeling they were wasting their time, me included.

Russell helped me realise that one of the tools I had chosen – to drink 2 litres of water a day – just was not right for me and that I should change it for a different one. Although I had all the right intentions to drink the water, I found it nigh impossible to do. I hated the feeling of all that water sploshing around in my tummy and the constant need to use the loo was infuriating! I can’t think of any day when I actually managed to drink all 2 litres anyway. So Russell was gentle but firm in saying I should change tack and that not all tools suit everyone. The trick is to find the right one for you personally.

So I’ve moved on and now am working on cutting out sweet and stimulating food/drink and that seems to be working well. I’ve found some lovely Redbush Earl Grey tea in Waitrose (Dragonfly brand if you want to try it) as well as their regular Redbush tea and even my husband likes it, so I’ve got him onto it too. I’ve cut out coffee – although only drank one cup a day anyway – and seriously cut down on the wine intake. My regular glass of red with the evening meal is no more. That said, I went to a wedding on Friday night and so drank my whole week’s worth in one evening! But I guess that’s still less than if I’d had a glass every night too. And the hangover on Saturday morning really brought home to me that not only should I not mix champagne, rose and red wine in one evening but that when you’re over 40 the pain of the next day is not worth the gain of the evening before, whatever that gain might have been.

I’ve now officially got to day 21 – the end of the first 3 week period. I’m getting there – slowly but surely – and am really pleased that we have another 21 day period before the course ends as I think I do need that to consolidate the things I’ve learned and to get my new “tool” firmly established. I’ll also have another 3 weeks with no school holidays to wreck my routine!

Hopefully I’m going to start using the relaxation tool as well – I do lead a very stressful life and am sure my cortisol levels have a major impact on my weight. Russell has lent me his CD as I’ve not been able to download the MP3 from the website, but we don’t seem to be able to copy the cd either. I’ll have to get my 15-year-old son on the case as he seems fine with all things technical.

I’m looking forward to the meeting tonight to see how the others have done – four of the others are involved with schools and so have probably had the same problems as me with the change in routine. I hope for their sakes they weren’t as bad as I was!

Russell said he’s going to change the exercise routine tonight – something about body confusion. Apparently if we do the same exercise all the time our body gets used to it and it’s not as effective, so we have to confuse our bodies by changing things around. If that hasn’t confused you, you’re a better woman than I. I’ve just about got my head around the squats and lifts and not dropping the weights on my own head when I’m so tired I can barely lift the things. Tonight should be fun!

One week done but not an easy one

So a week has passed since our first proper meeting and exercise but it has been so busy at work I have to admit that I haven’t put 100% into my efforts. Naughty me!

Tuesday evening was a huge success with our big event at the Gherkin in London – we took over the restaurant at the very top of the building and organised a party for our client Atlantic Canada. As I predicted though, tottering around on 4 inch heels and having to walk up and down a spiral staircase was a challenge – especially with my complaining thigh muscles after the resistance training on Monday evening. But the views from the Gherkin were incredible – we were lucky with a clear night so you could see for miles and miles and Tower Bridge and the Tower of London were like tiny little toy town buildings down below us.

To be honest I didn’t think my legs would complain as much as they did as I have been horse riding regulary every couple of weeks for years – and I can promise you that a rising trot and fast canter use every single muscle you have in your body to stay upright, control the horse with your hands and legs and not fall off. As I learned a couple of years back, falling off is not good at my age as I don’t bounce anymore, however rotund I may be.

I went riding again on Saturday which was great fun, although a bit cold up on the Forest. We got in some good long trots and canters which got my heart rate up – and I guess lots of resistance training in handling the horse too!

I think over the past week, the only tool I’ve really been successful with has been to walk at least 30 minutes a day. I’ve upped my dog walking in the morning from 20 minutes to 30 and that has worked well. It just means I’m a bit later into the office than normal – I also have to remember to take my wellington boots as the park is so muddy that my shoes would be ruined and my legs filthy.

Drinking all that water every day has proved a HUGE challenge. I really get fed up with going to the loo so often! I must admit that on Tuesday and Wednesday I didn’t do it at all – what with the party on Tuesday and spending Wednesday shopping at Bluewater, the last thing I wanted was to be running to the loo every 30 minutes. Getting caught short on the M25 is not something I plan to experience!

After Wednesday I did make more of an effort to drink more and have bought some refreshing new fruit teas to replace some of the cold water as I really don’t find water inspiring to drink! I’m also switching to caffeine free coffee, although I only have one coffee a day anyway. Wierdly, I seem to be going off regular tea and just want to drink Chai tea all the time.

My third tool is to eat more slowly and I have to consciously remind myself of this every time I sit down to eat. I try to chew everything 21 times but have found that my high fibre breakfast cereal has turned to sawdust by then and almost chokes me when I swallow it, so a little less mastication is required – yes MASTICATION, a wonderful word . Confuses the hell out of my children!

I did start blogging on the Pete Cohen site too and got back some really nice comments from people – very supportive and friendly – but I admit I need to do more work on that. Finding time is hard but I guess I’ve got to treat this whole experience as a training exercise, and just like when I was learning the piano all those years ago, need to do 20 minutes practice a day until it all comes naturally.

So I know what I’m supposed to do – it’s just making sure I do it that’s the problem.

We have our next meeting tonight – hope the snow melts quickly as I don’t want to get snowed in again. Russell was great last week – very motivational during the exercise class which I think I can say we all found challenging in one way or another. We had 7 stations for different exercises using weights – some were squats, others lifts and one piece of torture equipment that’s like a giant elastic band that you stand in the middle of and have to pull each end up. It was agony! But as we only had to do each station for 30 seconds and then 40 seconds it was manageable but not easy. It certainly warmed us all up!

I’ve now got to try and catch up on some of the daily emails I’ve received from Pete this past week and need to get myself more organised to do them every day. Little and often is much better than all in one go.

I’ll update you tomorrow, I hope, on how things go tonight – not that I’ll do much as I’ve got a horrible head cold that’s making me feel a bit woozy.

Day 1 – Here I Come

Since my first session last week I’ve been reading up online about the course at www.petecohen.tv and did a mammoth video watching session yesterday afternoon.  I have to admit it’s hard to do it during the week as I spend all day at my computer at the agency need my evenings away from it.  But now I’ve got properly started, hopefully it won’t take so long every day, but I guess I just have to get into the habit.  

This whole blogging thing is quite alien to me if I’m honest.  Firstly I find it amazing that people would be interested in what I have to say and secondly, where they get the time to read other people’s blogs is a mystery to me.  But according to Pete Cohen, it’s the people who blog most who are most successful at his programme.  Maybe it’s because the constant blogging acts to reinforce all the new things we’re learning.  I suppose when I was at University I’d attend a lecture and write notes to help embed the information in my brain – perhaps the blog is the equivalent of lecture notes.  If I think of the blog as my notes to myself and not to an audience of readers, that might make it easier.

Anyway, back to the 4 Step Programme.  I’m now at Step 3, having activated the first 21 days session and having chosen my 3 tools from the 9.

I’ve gone for one tool from each set (nutritional, exercise and behavioural). 

The first one for me will be to drink 2 litres of water a day. This will be a challenge in itself as I always resent the amount of trips to the loo I have to make when I up my liquid intake.  I also like my tea – chai is my favourite right now, but as that has caffeine in it,  I’ll need to pull back on it.  I don’t take sugar in my tea, but I do in coffee although I only have 1 cup of that a day – it’s my “start the day” hot drink at the office.  I’ve just been good and had a hot herbal tea instead of another chai – NOTE TO SELF – buy some more fruity herbal teas and some South African red bush tea.

My exercise tool is to be walking 30 minutes a day.  I’ve started well on that one and did 30 minutes in -3 degrees up at the local park with my dog Solo.  I’ve been walking him for about 20 minutes for the past couple of years but have to do one extra circuit of the park to make up the extra 10 minutes. 

My dog Solo in the bluebell woods last spring.

 I walk with two other school mum friends and their dogs most mornings, after we’ve dropped the children at school, then put Solo back in the car and drive on to work – sadly I live 7 miles out-of-town in a village so have to drive in every day to school/work.

 

I think it will be the weekends when it’s hardest to do the walk, which might sound crazy, but it’s because during the week I have a routine to follow which makes it easy.  My weekends tend to be downtime for me, as well as the time to catch up on household chores like washing and shopping. 

My daughter on her favourite horse at the stables

I also like to go horse riding up on the Ashdown Forest with my daughter.  However, at least doing all these active things means I’m on my feet even if I’m not actually walking for the sake of walking.

 

My third tool is to eat slowly and I’ve told my husband that I want the whole family to do this at our evening meal every day.  We’re rather old-fashioned in that we all sit down together every day for dinner, all five of us, and what we eat is all home cooked food.  It’s a great chance for us all to catch up on each other’s day and just be a family.  All of us tend to eat much too quickly, so if we all slow down a bit and start with much less food on our plates, we should reduce our intake substantially.  I’m of that generation where you always had to clear your plate and it’s very hard not to insist that my children do the same – I see it as insulting to the cook not to eat all the meal they have prepared for you.  So if we start with less, we can still clear the plate.

So tonight is our first group meeting up at Freedom Leisure Uckfield that will include a full 45 minute training session.  God knows how I’ll feel tomorrow!  I haven’t been riding since early December what with all the bad weather, so my thighs will probably be very sore in the morning.  Hopefully though it won’t be too bad as  I’ve got a big client event tomorrow evening up at the Gherkin in London for the Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership.  It’s a private dinner for 60 people with our clients and travel journalists.   Very glamorous, but I promise you it’s not fun standing around “networking” in high heels when your legs are killing you!

First meeting over

Well, the first meeting last night was good.  I needn’t have been nervous about it at all.  There are just seven of us in the group, plus our trainers Russell and Bev. 

We spent the first hour going through the programme and the 9 tools that we need teach ourselves the new habits that will enable us to take back control of our lives.  All very positive.  The only frightening bit was getting on the scales and being measured – there was no getting away from the evidence of my expansion.  But the beauty of the Pete Cohen course is that we don’t get measured and weighed every week – we won’t do that again until the end of the 8 week course, so we’ll be looking at a long period of change rather than a week-long snapshot.  Encouraging.

We all introduced ourselves to each other and gave a bit of our backgrounds.  What a surprise – we had all tried various other diets over the years and had put the weight back on.  One girl, Eva, summed things up very well for most of us – she is extremely good at dieting as she’s had so much practice at it.  The problem is she’s also good at putting the weight back on.  Don’t I just know what she means!

Of the seven of us, four already know each other through their work at a local school, so hopefully that means we’ll come together as a big group even more quickly and become really supportive of each other.

After the talking, we went down to the dance studio so Russell and Bev could explain how the exercise session each week would work.  It will all be based on resistance training, which basically means making your muscles work as hard as they can but not jumping up and down like a kangaroo on steroids. 

Seems that all those aerobics classes I did back in the 1980′s in my trendy neon blue and pink leggings, headband and leg warmers really were a waste of time, as well as giving me a bad back and knees!  Hindsight is a wonderful thing but can lead you to despair sometimes!

So it seems that arm curls, lunges and squats at the same time as holding a pair of 2kg weights is the new order of the day.  Although Russell did a lovely impression of lunge vacuuming, which he apparently learned from GMTV (that’s what he owned up to anyway!).  I now can’t get out of my head the mental image I’d conjured up of him in a french maid’s outfit pushing a Hoover in one hand and using a feather duster in the other.  Each to his own, I guess .  At least Jennifer Aniston is prettier.

We also learned an amazing fact from Russell – that apparently a good belly laugh for 10 seconds uses up an amazing amount of calorie s – a good few hundred I’m sure he said.  No doubt someone will correct me on the facts here – and please do!  But it made us wonder why diet classes don’t involve someone telling jokes, so one of the girls, suggested we all think up a joke to tell next week in between the circuits so we can keep using up the calories even when we’re resting!  Russell will have to become a stand up comedian for us.  You never know it might become a second career for him.

So I’ve now got to log on to Pete Cohen’s website and start doing my daily bit of work, to understand the programme better and choose which of the 9 tools I’m going to focus on for the first 21 days.  There are three tools relating to food, another three to behaviours and three more to exercise. The idea is to choose a couple of these tools and stick to them for the first 21 days, by which time they will have become habitual.  You then choose some more for the next 21 day period, so by the end of the 8 week course, you will have mastered at least some of them and so change will have happened.   And its the change that will lead to weight loss, not calorie counting.  And that’s why I know it’s going to work for me.  So wish me luck.

Pete Cohen Here I Come!

Hi

My name is Kate and after trying virtually every diet in the book over the last 25 years, I’ve decided to sign up for the new Pete Cohen “Sort Your Life Out” course at Freedom Leisure Uckfield.  I’ve seen him on GTMV before and met him myself a few weeks ago when I first heard about this course which focuses on changing the bad habits that so many of us overweight people have. 

What he said struck a chord with me, as all the calorie counting, points watching, exercising and pep talks I’ve had over the years have never worked in the long term.  Weightwatchers, Jenny Craig, Rosemary Conley, Slimfast, the Grapefruit Diet, the Hi-Fibre Diet.  I’ve tried them all, done well in the short term and then the weight goes back on – and more.

I’m now heavier than I’ve ever been and at the age of 47 that’s not a good place to be.  I’ve got three young children, run my own business and travel abroad quite frequently and whilst my husband is fantastic at sharing the load, it’s still a stressful and very busy way of life.  A recent health scare made me really look at myself and realise I had to take control, as even though I control every other element of my life, this is one bit that always escapes me.

So when I heard that Freedom Leisure was to start running the Pete Cohen course from my local leisure centre in Uckfield, I really thought I should give it a go.  I’ll be open with you – Freedom Leisure is actually one of my clients and that’s how I know about the course.  I run a PR agency and we’ve looked after Freedom Leisure for four years now, helping them get publicity in local Sussex and Kent newspapers, magazines and on TV.  But I’m not being paid to do this.  It’s my choice to give it a try and I’m doing it in my own time.  It really would be going beyond the call of duty to do this for a client, but it’s what I need to do for myself.

My first “class” is this evening, when I’ll meet the others who have signed up for the 8 week course with me.  We’ll have two personal trainers to guide us through the course in person each Monday night.  The course itself is all online on Pete’s website.  I’ve asked for a printed handbook of the website as I stare at a computer screen all day at work and am old fashioned enough to prefer reading a book to a screen!

I’m looking forward to it but slightly nervous of what I’ve let myself in for.  I’ll let you know later.

Session One

Hi Kate

Looking forward to your first session?

Judith