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I started my journey to a better life over 2 years ago now. There have been bumps along the way but I’m getting there and my dream of a bout gets ever closer. I am sparring most nights now and it’s be silly to expect everything to go my way all the time but I am taking less pastings now and am dishing a fair few out. I did refuse to spar with a woman the other week though. I have had light spars with females before but theirs is something really hard to stomach about full sparring with someone of the opposite gender.

Also, I try to apply self to the full extent when training. I look it at it like this. If you’re not going to give it all you have, then what’s the point? Most of us feel the same way and I like how e help ach other. At the moment I am in aw of two people that train with us. These 2 are not going to box, rather they are there to work out. The first person, Jane, is a single mother of two, is heavy and has had some recent health problems, necessitating hospital treatment and physiotherapy. She still comes in and gets on with the work and wants to do most of the stuff we do. I cannot fault her at all and I see parallels to myself when I first started, both in size and application of effort. She is not shy about getting sweaty and whilst she is a big lass, that wont last and no one has judged her for that. In fact, I would go so far to say that we admire her for coming in.

The other person isn’t there every week, but is there more often than not. Alan was a soldier, and left the Army after…..having a leg blown off by a bomb in Afghanistan! Think about that for a sec. He is an amputee, has a false leg and STILL comes in and puts a fair few of us to shame. I really do admire him.

If they can get in the gym and do it, why the fuck can’t the blubber monsters I see waddling around town

Eagerly displaying their rolls of flab? There are very few people that genuinely cannot do at least some form of exercise or work out.

Dog Tired

I‘ve seen and read some horrid stories in the news recently but tonight, this one takes the biscuit. I sincerely hope that whoever did that to the poor dog gets the same treatment back.

This has set me off on a tangent with regard to dogs. I love Milly, and as I write this she is sat right next to me and in a manner of speaking, she, along with my cats is an extension of me. I care for Milly by providing her with good food, water, exercise and plenty of fuss. When I walk her, I always, ALWAYS carry poop bags to clean up her ‘mess’. I have control of her, she is never off-leash, given that I live in an urban environment. If she sees another dog and seems like she’ll get aggressive then I calm her and the situation down and walk away. I do not allow strangers to come up to her to pet her, regardless of whether they’re children or not (and just because she’s small doesn’t mean she wont bite!)

So if I can do that, why cant the other dog owners around?

Why do I see dogs, usually Staffies, running around without leads? It matters not that they may have good recall, because as Norma quite rightly states, all dogs have instincts and what happens when it sees another dog and bolts over?

Also, why the fucking fuckity fuck can’t people pick up after their dogs? I mean technically it’s an offence to leave dog turds laying around but judging by the amount of crap I have to dodge round here it’s not a law that’s enforced. At least I hope it’s dog poo, because if not then the alternative is a bit grim!

I honestly despair at some people.