I wanted to be an actress and turned out that I got into modelling just for a nano second and then when they wanted me to lose tons of weight it all went pear shaped. Although my acting did spark when I got cast for three commercials one was as a wife driving a Chrysler voyager car! One was for Wimpy where I had to eat a burger with no burger in it yuck and the other was for Clearasil in Germany I was part of the crowd!!!
I wanted to be a horse rider and a jockey and I have horse ridden since I was young and shared a little pony called Misty until Misty got too old then I used to look after horses for people and eventually bought my own ex-race horse called Rustlers Dream (Russ) and then another horse called Bones whom both I was going to become the next Harvey Smith on and ride to glory, which never happened as Bones was an ex-showjumper and was quite elderly and Russ just wanted to race off on grass with me flailing behind him clinging on for dear life!! I used to work as a live in groom which is as far as I got with my dream but at least I had the opportunity to work, live and breathe horses. My dream one day is to own a stables and have a yard but that is a lottery win I think!!
I used to ice skate as a teenager and got up to my exams and passed the first basic six exams but I don't skate as much anymore sadly I used to dream of being an ice skater and used to even get up in the mornings at five and go to the rink to practice I was there every night as well.
I wanted to be a tennis player but due to lack of money didn't get very far with that, but now my daughter plays tennis and I love to watch her playing the sport as it is my favourite sport if anyone has ever noticed!!
I have travelled the world and then became homeless upon my return for six months which was not a happy time.
I have been a police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service in London for three years and that really did open my eyes to the world and at the time I was very young when I joined as I had joined just after my dad had died in 1992 and he was in the Met as well and had worked on the Suzy Lamplugh case and had been in the murder squad, the fraud squad and many others through the CID I was so proud of him. I was called the handbag when I joined as I joined a team of males these days you couldn't get away with things like that but it didn't bother me back then I was young and took it as a joke! One night I was at the station desk for a post and the station was busy with people waiting to report or check in and one of our prolific thieves walked through the door just totally ignoring all the other people waiting and said he needed some help for something and I said to him he would have to put his cigarette out and he flicked it right into the area with all the people waiting and burnt some poor womans leg, the look on his face as this huge guy who usually is being nicked and locked up was profusely apologising to this woman was one of those moments that you had to be there for!!
Another time we was called to this flat as neighbours hadn't seen the occupant for a while and they said it smelt funny through his letter box so off my partner and I went to knock and see if anyone was in. Constant knocking to no avail and we couldn't kick the door in so we radioed two male officers up to come help us and they managed to kick the door in in the end. Well oh my god what happens but this little old man comes running out swearing at us and saying he was watching effing Coronation Street and what the eff was we doing! So there we were four officers trying to explain we thought he may have been dead as his neighbours were worried and had smelt something bad from his flat. We got him a replacement door and apologised but he put in a complaint even though his door was fixed and we was trying to make sure he was safe!! It really was again one of those moments you had to be there for.
I had to do lots of things I had never done or seen in the police and one was dead people and accidents and mortuaries which is the unpleasant side to the job but these days I am able to put all I have seen into a separate compartment in my head and deal with it unlike when I was younger and was unable to. I had PTSD upon leaving the job and that is when I went and travelled for a while.
Nowadays I think I could handle the job a lot better but because of my mental health illness I would never get back in.
I have a picture of me in my uniform somewhere I shall have to post it when I find it.
I still dream these days of being something I think we all do don't we. Do you have a dream and what is it? I would love to know so have your say in the comments ↓
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