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Who Sammi is...

In case you didn't get it from the url, or title of this post, 

I'm Sammi. 

Welcome to my little corner of the internet; I thought I should write a bit about myself because you're probably wondering if you landed here by accident. At time of writing I'm 31, and living on the Jurassic Coastline, Dorset. My town is famously known as "Broadchurch", but us locals like to call it Bridport. I moved here just after the last season was shot, so my life wasn't disrupted as much as others. 

I'm from Dorset originally, from Poole, but have lived in Fuerteventura and Sweden, too. I like to travel and get away as often as possible. I've been to 27 countries, including Canada, Morocco and Indonesia (Bali, specifically). My next stop is Switzerland to visit my old housemate for her birthday.

I live with my partner, Polly. We've been together since July 2018. We met at a funny time (I had just been diagnosed with cancer but that's for a separate post), but she stuck it out and now we live together. We moved into our beautiful "period apartment"-- code for basement flat, yep, it's FULL of damp, but it really is beautiful. I'm combating the damp with a dehumidifier and a lot of plants that I don't really know how to look after. My dog, Tiger, also lives with us. He's a 13 year ginger, gay, Canarian mongrol who arrived in my life when I was 17, and has followed me across the world ever since. He has his own passport. 

For work, I like to keep it simple... I work as a supervisor four days a week in a beach cafe in Weymouth. I like to have the freedom to leave, no long contracts. I've been working there about 18 months, and like every job there are things I don't like (the drive for one), but there's more I like than I don't. The support of my colleagues, and boss is a massive plus point. I do one long day, on a Sunday, and three shorter ones.

In my masses of spare time (it's amazing how you fill that extra day off once you only work four days a week) I like to go to the gym- I'm not sure I like it, today I felt like I was dying- where I tend to go either swimming, to box HIIT, or spinning. I try to go to one class of each per week. I like to listen to live music, I am a volunteer at Glastonbury festival and have been for the last five years. It's the best thing I do with my life. I like watching GBBO, QI & David Attenborough programmes, but I also bloody love Gilmore Girls. Sometimes I look around my own town and feel like I live in my own little Stars Hollow. I am an avid reader, although I have been reading Shantaram for a year. It's a huge book, and I have read about 6 other books along side it. Since meeting Polly I have picked up both a guitar and ukulele. I can play the guitar better than the ukulele, my go to song is You've Got the Love by Florence + the Machine. 

That's all I got time for folks, until next time... 

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