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I've not really celebrated my birthday this year......the flu and the chest infection I've got kind of knocked all the fun out of it and left me on the sofa all Tuesday when I should have been birthdaying. But some of my girls popped round last night and we ate snacks and drank fizz and gin and then ate cake. Which was the perfect way to wrap up the week! P.s. there's a photo previous to this one where I'm looking mega excited by the cake but have 5673 chins and the shiniest face ever, and is only suitable for small, close friend WhatsApp groups! You get the hand hiding the chins shot 🤣⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #happybirthdaytome #flashesofdelight #thatsdarling #liveauthentic #thehappynow #thatauthenticfeeling #darlingmovement #abmhappylife #thisismycommunity #ohgoshtravels #gatherandcurate #persuepretty #loveletterto #documentyourdays #forahappymoment #feelfreefeed #inspiremyinstagram #momentsofmine #theeverygirl
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Somehow, and I'm not sure how it's happened (because I'm convinced I was 28 only last week) but I've made it to 39! Which I'd say is pretty impressive given outside forces! NGL, it's not been the greatest of days as I'm sick, so I've cancelled all my birthday plans and sat on the sofa wallowing with my dogs! But at least I've got the memories of the fab time we had last week to get me through, even if my trip to see the polar bears at the wildlife park has had to be put on hold! . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #littlestoriesofmylife #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #persuepretty #documentyourdays #lovelysquares #forahappymoment #themidwintermovement #aseasonalshift #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #skilift #ttot #travelingram #adventure #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels #busylivingwithmets
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Not going to lie to you and say I'm a) happy to be home from the mountains or b) done posting photos of them. But it's my birthday tomorrow so I had the foresight to book a few more days off work........ I am however currently suffering from the worst cold, ever, which I'm hoping will have cleared up by tomorrow because I really want to go see the polar bears at the wildlife park! I also appear to have left my knees somewhere on a mogul field in France 😬 oooooops. Now, let's look at this pretty mountain sunset and forget our problems for a while! . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #ttot #travelingram #adventure #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels #avoriaz #morzine #chatel #mountainsunset
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Last day on snow for this trip. We covered just over 18 miles today, some lovely fluffy new snow, some mogully horrible runs, some cruisey blues and some surprise black runs. I know, I know, 18 miles might seem not too far to you fully fit snow folks but for me it's a bloody achievement - My knees don't work right now, my energy levels are depleted, but I'm smiling! . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #littlestoriesofmylife #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #persuepretty #documentyourdays #lovelysquares #forahappymoment #themidwintermovement #aseasonalshift #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #skilift #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels #busylivingwithmets
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Yes. I did try to get Jim to make a 💓 with our arms but he wasn't well up for it 🤦♀️. Had a day off the slopes today. We'd always said we'd have Friday off to give me a bit of a rest, and luckily for us it was snowing so visibility would have been crap on the mountains anyway! Instead we've watched a movie and wandered round Chatel. Now we're having a team night out for dinner! . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #liftselfie #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels #avoriaz #morzine #chatel #mountainsunset
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When your last run of the day looks like this 🥰. Another day on the mountain for me today. Jim and I just took it easy and pootled about the mountain. We made it into Switzerland, then to avoriaz and back down before the sun went down. Just over 16 miles covered today. Not bad hey? . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels #avoriaz #morzine #chatel #mountainsunset
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Spent the day exploring the area around Chatel. We've driven to Abondance to buy cheese, we've seen cute little villages, we drove to Switzerland. And now I'm watching a crazy sunset from the balcony with a beer! Not a bad day I'd say! . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #littlestoriesofmylife #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #persuepretty #documentyourdays #lovelysquares #forahappymoment #themidwintermovement #aseasonalshift #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #snow #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels
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This is what stage IV cancer looks like this week.......✌️. If you'd have told me 22 months ago that I'd be snowboarding again, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. Because 24 months ago, in Mammoth, I fell - a totally stupid, boring, icy fall. But it sent a shockwave of pain through my entire body! The pain started in my sternum and ran up and down my body. I cried. I couldn't move. Hell. I couldn't even breathe. It later turned out I'd fractured the bone, and I'd fractured it because it was cancerous - incurable cancer in my bones. My life was now going to consist of more chemo and life long treatment. I couldn't see a way back to the mountains. But today.........Today I've been back on the hill. We did over 4hrs of riding and covered over 12miles of pistes. Yes, I was a little more cautious than I was two years ago. Maybe a little slower. But I was back out in my happy place. And because of the generousity of the snowboarding community, I did it in style with a new set up. . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #littlestoriesofmylife #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #persuepretty #documentyourdays #lovelysquares #forahappymoment #themidwintermovement #aseasonalshift #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #mammothmountain #snow #skilift #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels
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This holiday we're going on has come at just the right time. I've been starting to feel really inadequate. I was seeing people all over these squares doing so much more than me. No. Sharing so much more than me - physically and figuratively. Not doing. Just sharing. So whilst I'm 💯% going to be sharing photos from the mountains (I know you all need a dose of mountain life!), I'm really looking forwards to taking some time out from being so connected to the internet, and getting myself connected to nature instead. So if you need me this week I'll be out having fun, in the mountains, where I belong! Grateful that I'm still able to do it. Fingers crossed it helps me see that whilst some people might share more than me and they might have more followers than me, they are NOT more than me. Instagram is not real life, it's not a measure of your self worth. . . . . . . . . #wildme #keepitwild #exploremore #naturelovers #stayandwander #getoutside #littlestoriesofmylife #nothingisordinary #momentslikethese #persuepretty #documentyourdays #lovelysquares #forahappymoment #themidwintermovement #aseasonalshift #thequietwinter #winterstories #snowboarding #mammothmountain #snow #skilift #ttot #travelingram #adventure #mammothstories #girlswhoride #welivetoexplore #b4bc #livelevel #ohgoshtravels
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Back at my desk today and wishing I was out in the wild, with my dogs! But........Only 3 days of work (for part time me) and then I'm off, and only 6 days until I'm on holiday ✌️✌️✌️ I'm still feeling unbelievably fatigued but I'm hoping some 'normality' i.e staring at a computer, will help with that! Hope you all have a bearable first Monday after the Christmas holidays. .⠀ .⠀ . . . . .⠀ #peakdistrict #ig_peakdistrict #thepeakdistrict #thewildnesstonic #uniquedistrict #yorkshirephotographers #yorkshire #myhappyviews #whimsicalwonderfulwild #awakethelight #itsprimupnorth #embracingtheseasons #quietinthewild #explore_britain #uk_greatshots #aseasonalyear #lessismoor #gowildlyandslow #welivetoexplore #optoutside #onehouroutside #keepitwild #sheffield #jug #retropug #dogsofsheffield
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Snap back to reality. Had an extra week off treatment for Christmas, so it's January 2nd and I'm starting the year as I hope it means to go on - back in the hospital, hooked up to the IV, being pumped full of herceptin and perjeta, being stabbed with denusomab and Zoladex. No drugs changes for me please, for a good while I hope! But I've also had to say goodbye to one of my favourite nurses* as she moves to a different hospital! (* Full disclosure, I've got 3 nurses and they're all my favourites, but for today's purposes Amy's my favourite favourite, ok!) .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #secondarysisters #secondarybreastcancer #metupuk #cancerthriver #metup #metastaticbreastcancer #breasties #walkingmiracles #dyingforacure #womenwithcancer #stageivneedsmore #researchnotribbons #thriver #truecancerbodies #cancersucks #cancerrightnow #fuckcancer #emmaVcancer #ybcn #thegramgang #BreastCancerAwareness #standup2cancer #su2c #breastcancerawareness #busylivingwithmets
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HNY instagram. Can I repeat last year's new year post sentiment? One where I talked about setting a goal for the year instead of making resolutions about giving up things I enjoy because they're deemed 'bad' for me. Last year I wrote; Today my goal is exactly the same as it was yesterday. To live. And to live well. To be here in 365 days and to have collected some fun memories along the way. And I'm still here. And I've lived well. And I've made some brilliant memories. Goal achieved! So, I think I'm just going to echo these words I wrote last year. Because writing this again next year, having had another 366 days of life, would be brilliant............Oh. And I need to take my lunch to work more. But I think I set that goal weekly, so let's not pay too much mind to it, hey? . . . . . . #newyearseve #reflection #secondarysisters #secondarybreastcancer #metupuk #cancerthriver #metup #metastaticbreastcancer #breasties #walkingmiracles #dyingforacure #womenwithcancer #stageivneedsmore #researchnotribbons #thriver #truecancerbodies #cancersucks #cancerrightnow #fuckcancer #emmaVcancer #ybcn #thegramgang #BreastCancerAwareness #standup2cancer #su2c #breastcancerawareness #busylivingwithmets
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Are we supposed to be looking back over the last year, or the last decade? I'm not entirely sure right now. If it's a decade of reflection were supposed to be embarking on then I'm not sure where to start. Because the last decade has broke me more than I thought it was possible, but it's also brought me so much more joy than I could have imagined. Yes, life isn't anything like I'd have thought it would, or hoped it would be like a decade ago. And yes, it's difficult for me sometimes to not dwell on the hard parts - but despite the bad, the illness, the losses, the last three and a half years of cancer - there have been great times. I've moved the Sheffield to be with Jim. We've bought a house. Grown our family by two fur faces. Seen our two nephews arrive and grow. Watched friends get married. Taken some epic holidays - across America, Canada, Europe. Made new friends and rekindled old friendships. Been to festivals. Seen concerts. Snowboarded, and sailed. Had times that won't be forgotten. And made memories that outstrip any of the worst things that this decade has thrown at us! Here's to seeing what the roaring 20's will bring! . . . . . . #newyearseve #reflection #secondarysisters #secondarybreastcancer #metupuk #cancerthriver #metup #metastaticbreastcancer #breasties #walkingmiracles #dyingforacure #womenwithcancer #stageivneedsmore #researchnotribbons #thriver #truecancerbodies #cancersucks #cancerrightnow #fuckcancer #emmaVcancer #ybcn #thegramgang #BreastCancerAwareness #standup2cancer #su2c #breastcancerawareness #busylivingwithmets
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Took some friends and their pupster out for a walk to introduce him to F&M so Melle wouldn't hate him coming to the house to play.....(but typically it was Flash who kicked off at him coming round 🤦♀️). On our way to the car we ended up in some horror film worthy fog! To celebrate not getting murdered in the Peak District, we then proceeded to eat all the crisps, and dips, and veggies, and lilt ham, AND CHEESE. We also drank everything. In appropriate glasswear obvz. If I hadn't drunkenly lost my phone in my own house I'd have shown you just how impressive a selection of glasses we used 🤦♀️🤣😉. .⠀ .⠀ . . . . .⠀ #peakdistrict #ig_peakdistrict #thepeakdistrict #thewildnesstonic #uniquedistrict #yorkshirephotographers #yorkshire #myhappyviews #whimsicalwonderfulwild #awakethelight #itsprimupnorth #embracingtheseasons #quietinthewild #beautyinsimplicity #slowlived #explore_britain #uk_greatshots #aseasonalyear #lessismoor #gowildlyandslow #welivetoexplore #optoutside #sheffield #reflection #onehouroutside #keepitwild #adventurewomen #sheffield
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Another from the christmas card photo shoot. Yes. I'm amazed he didn't poop in my shoe after this. Yes. He really does hate me. No. I'm not sure how I got such a handsome dog! And yes, the dogs do both have christmas socks. Don't your puppers? .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #thegramgang #freestylecreativeliving #flashesofdelight #feelfreefeed #inspiremyinstagram #thatauthenticfeeling #momentsofmine #thehappynow #thatauthenticfeeling #persuepretty #darlingmovement #thisismycommunity #momentslikethese #jugsofinstagram #forahappymoment #dogsofsheffield #jug #pugcross #jrtxpug #pugstagram #flashpuppy #discoverunder5k #dogsofsheffield #retropug #dogsonchristmascards #santapaws
