All About Me

...confused. I liked looking at all the colourful pictures though. My mum was often called into school to have meetings with the teachers, as they were worried about me. Some of the teachers used to be in tears because it upset them to see me so unhappy everyday. They thought there were problems at home, which always used to annoy my mum. She felt they were blaming her. This made her more determined to look into the problems I was having and see if ...
...badly bullied and suffered from all the 3 forms of abuse and it was getting worse by the day. I soon found I had no safe place. Deep down I had a lot of confidence in myself and I knew I wasn't stupid, but as the abuse got worse I couldn't hold onto those positive thoughts anymore. Not one person believed in me so how could I believe in myself. However there was one subject at school that I was very good at and that was Art. I got 80%-90% for all ...

saraha007 23.04.2005 · Read full review
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...made sure that gave me all of their love. When I was three years old on the 28th October 1991 my little sister, Caroline Hannah, was born. I loved being around her and surprisingly I wasn't jealous of her at all. It sounds strange but even at that age when I was playing with my dolls, as little girls do, all I wanted and all I longed for was to be a mother and to have a family of my own. Growing up I was very privileged both financially and emotionally, ...
...days out, holidays and also all the little things which personally I think count for more such as cooking with my mum, going for walks with my mum, dad and sister and my mum helping me to read and write long before I started school. I started school in September 1992 just before I was five. I loved school and I was really happy their. I had lots of friends and I was academically working at a much higher level then that of my age group. I used to ...

Playboy_4_life 07.08.2006 (10.08.2006) · Read full review
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...suggested that I do an all about me review as my life has been somewhat colourful. After careful consideration I set about writing this review which I would like to warn you now could become a bit of a depressing read. For those of you brave enough to read on here goes. Born Ian Steven Pipes on the 24th of January 1980 to Grace and Alex pipes I entered this world as we all do, with no idea of the heartache, fun, terror and excitement that would ...
...rest of the school who all loved to play football, climb trees and make fun of the girls (which I guess was the first signs of them actually being interested in the opposite sex). I preferred to spend my time reading and doing anything that kept me distant from the boys I so wanted to be like. Along came high school at the age of 11 and this was terrifying for me, along with the terror of starting this new big school I was also going through the ...

PRO-REVIEWER 11.06.2007 (01.04.2008) · Read full review
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...My real father cut all contact with me at this age telling me that he was no longer my dad because mum had re-married. Her husband's 14 yr old daughter moved in with us and my brother re-appeared. I started a new school, a fresh start. Within a month of there wedding they were having violent fights, I witnessed a lot of the fights and heard the rest, Both mum and my step dad were drinking heavier and I was either left with my brother, who would take ...
...with my step sister who would take me out while she was shop lifting. My brother ended up in prison and my step sister was thrown out for prostituting herself (at 15), I was sent to stay with relatives because I was in the way at home. Whilst staying with relatives I was sexually molested again by my cousin, this time I knew what had happened and it is still a clear memory in my mind. By 7 my mother had divorced her 3rd husband and was working full ...

unquietmind 14.10.2005 · Read full review
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...continually having the headaches again all day, I was told I would need another Lumbar puncture to check the pressure had not risen again. Later that afternoon I went through the whole procedure to be told the pressure had risen again to 320mm/H2O. My whole family was devastated, we was told it was normal for the procedure to be only done once and then 99% of people continue a normal life with no problems, but for me, it looked like this was going ...
...in my stomach and stitches all down my back. I was unable to get of bed or walk around for a few hours but the next day I was allowed home providing I rested and didn't move around too much and went to the doctors to have the padding around my staples changed every other day. Everything was fine I began feeling myself again after a week, I then had the stitches removed and began back on with my normal daily life. Three days later, the headaches ...

Rach01484 01.08.2005 (04.07.2006) · Read full review
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...game without adult supervision. All the children were under eight years of age. The time came for the Regional Finals. We travelled as a family from Wiltshire to Exeter and stayed bed and breakfast ready for the day of the competition. The counties to play in the competition were Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Each team consisted of twelve players, six boys and six girls. At Exeter University the matches were played. The ...
...My daughter easily won all of her five matches and the team as a whole had performed the best of all the counties. The hard work and training had paid off. It was a resounding victory for the Wiltshire team. They proudly received their winner's medals together with a shield for the winning county - Wiltshire! From these experiences with Short Tennis, from age eight my daughter went on to train with the squads for Wiltshire Tennis. Now she had moved ...

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...what I was asking him. All I got was "Foo Fighters are playing here tonight be careful." I wondered what he was on about then it occurred to me that realising how tiny I was and knowing this band and what the fans are like it was useful advice but not the answer I was after. It's tipping with rain and I'm getting cold and hungry. Having travelled back from Perth this morning I'm so tired. I desperately need to sleep but I so wanted the chance and ...
...Have I missed all the action. It did say on the website that today would be the last chance to audition for a singing contract of a livetime and that people would be seen on a first come first served basis. *You've just hit lucky* After 20 minutes or so of muffling around, I spot a lady carrying a black big umbrella who asked me "Are you lost" I said to her "I've come for the X-factor auditions can you help me?" To my surprise she too had come ...

promotions_lass 04.09.2006 (11.09.2006) · Read full review
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...till I was 16 , all the students I had helped teach along with my instructor were catching me up,and some were surpassing me, so I became despondent and gave it up,something I regret. At 15 I was starting to go off the rails, although I played football and at times school was only bareable because of this, I started smoking, there were 3 subjects at school that the teachers didn`t think I was good enough to do the exams in, so I refused to go to ...
...gone out to make us all a drink, what I saw next was just indescribable, I was looking down but trying not too shriek out as I didnt want her too panic, I just pressed the buzzer, there was blood everywhere but huge lumps also, no sooner as our midwife was in the room theremust have been 15 members of staff in the room, one midwife was desperately trying to get our son out but couldn`t,what had happened was that the placenta had split in half, and ...

dazmufc 08.07.2006 · Read full review
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...a dangerous mountain, made Shaun all the more determined to climb it, that's what he was like - he thrived on challenges. He and his friend made it to the plateau, about three quarters of the way up. Shaun wanted to continue to the top, but Walter didn't want to. They decided that Shaun would go on ahead and agreed to meet at the bottom car park in a short while. Shaun never made that meeting. He made it to the top of "An Teallach", took photos of ...
...called out. After searching all night, they finally discovered his broken body lying on a ridge, know as the "Bad Step". He was airlifted by helicopter to Inverness Hospital, where he was formally identified by his friend. His body was finally released and taken to the chapel of rest. He lay resting for a few days before the funeral. I visited him with the rest of the family. I remember looking into his coffin and thinking, this doesn't look like ...

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All About Me For my 100th review with Ciao, I thought I'd do something different and after considering various options and ideas, decided to write this piece. I hope readers won't be too bored with the ramblings of a middle aged reviewer!! ==In The Beginning== I was born in Folkestone, Kent on 19th June 1958, my Ciao name, Brittle1906 reflects my birth date, so no surprises there! I was an only child, but have a large extended family of cousins and ...
...sides of the family, as all my cousins are male. I held quite an envied position within the family and I was a little indulged and fussed over, but never spoiled, as my Dad was very strict about manners and behaviour. Bad manners were not tolerated and I was often sent to my room for what these days would possibly appear minor misdemeanours, it did me no harm and I wish his style of parenting were more in vogue nowadays. My Dad never physically chastised ...

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...happy. However, I was not all sweetness and light. I was a nasty, selfish kid, could be naughty and upset my grandparents, the people who treated me the kindest! The other days, my father used to pick me up if he was in , or I would walk the 20 mins home.I remember walking home with bags full of things and dropping them and having to pick them up all the way home. I was scared of my father and confused about him. I admired him to a point I would ...
...It was not long at all before I moved schools. Parkside was less strict, less formal, full of kids who did not give a damn about school, who cared more about their hair and nails,or their fun. it was smaller and the work was much easier. I went from bottom of the class to the top,partly for that reason and partly because I knew I could, but there was no way I would please the people I despised. the kids asked me to help with their work, wanted to ...

sugarmouse1 18.01.2007 (14.09.2008) · Read full review
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...‘time’ I have available, forget all about what I was ready for, remember half an hour after I’m supposed to be there! Oops *Shelle on Memory* Buggered if I can remember what on earth I was going to put here. *Shelle on Cooking* Don’t get me wrong I can cook very nice, sometimes delicious food. However, something went wrong with my womanly multi-tasking wiles and whilst I can create something delicious, wholesome and perfectly cooked if I don’t ...
...could stay on this section all day, but it would just alarm you and I have given both children the number for childline so maybe we’d better move on… *Shelle on Friendship* I don’t have many; just a select few, these wonderful people, cope admirably with my dragging them around dance floors, chatting on the phone until the wee small hours, burning the odd bacon butty, and turning up in my night clothes for a bit of a chat! In return for these immense ...

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...moved in my toys were all thrown away as at the age of 5 she believed I was too old to play with them. My meals were rationed and I was put to bed at 6:00pm everynight. I found my new lifestyle very different to what I had been used to and I resented her for this. I blamed her too for taking my Mum's place as she could no longer come back home now and she resented me for reminding my Dad of his first wife. It was very hard for all of us, so on Easter ...
...now. My Mum drove all the way from London to Colchester to 'sort me out' as she had been ordered to. When she arrived she asked me if I would like to go and live with her and I did not hesitate. I packed all my belongings and left with her that day, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to any of my friends and not to my Dad either really. I still remember it clearly to this day and it still brings a lump to my throat. I have always been a Daddy's ...

Lynz0901 30.09.2004 · Read full review
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...never wanted for a thing all my wishes were taken care of. BUT DID THEY LOVE ME ?? I was the youngest of four children, (Spoilt) but I needed more than tokens, I NEEDED TO FEEL LOVE. Being the youngest can make you feel lonely, I was a burden to my sister and two brothers, who I suppose now whilst reflecting on things had to drag me along with them. They didn't ask for me to be born, but they had to look after me, to make life easier for mum ...
...? Yes I know we all have to take our role in each family, but you have to have a balance of love as well. All my life, all I remember is arguments. Not wanting to take me with them was an argument, I suppose all families endure, but worst of all was this feeling of every thing being my fault. My mum, nearly every day used to scream at my dad. "you just wait until Michele is 16 I'm off !" I always dreaded reaching 16, because I was brought up ...

micheledog 15.08.2005 · Read full review
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...therapeutic! Well it all started on the 25th of November 1985 and 8:31PM. I was born to the proud parents Julie and Ken. My mother was a police officer and my dad was in the fraud squad. I was the first child born to my parents and the first grandchild of my loving grandparents. A month after I was born my mum and dad separated and my mother and I moved to Fishponds in Bristol. I was a really happy child though and saw my dad on most weekends. He ...
...I loved our new home. All the animals fascinated me and I loved my new horse, Hector and German Sheppard, Buzzby. As an 8 year old, I suppose I was quite mature. I thought that as long as my mum seemed happy, then it would be ok. All I craved for was stability. No more new boyfriends, and for my mum to be loved. And we had it easy in Frome; Steve was a millionaire (although he refused to spend his money!) and he had a lovely home. But he was tall ...

spoilt_little_br 17.11.2005 · Read full review
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