When Tamsen and I started Me, Myself and I, we had some ideas of what, when and how we wanted things to happen and, in general, what sort of order we wanted it to happen. I remember it well, we were sitting outside the cafe area at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, it was sunny, but a bit cold.

In the last couple of weeks, the ideas, dates & time scale, logo’s, all where first voiced on that day…..that one meeting.

For example, when we thought of when we would have our first training day, we picked October 23rd…..after the school holidays and everyone getting back into a routine. I phoned around different venues for up to 15 to 20 people could come for a day’s training (11 to be exact!), but it had to be ‘Right’. The right feel of the venue, the right place so everyone that wanted to come for the training could get to with no problems, the right place as to regards ability / disability, the right place that could offer the right food & drink etc, etc. But the only place that did come back to me was not far off the A38, plenty of parking, lovely ground floor room, great food! Was the Dartmoor Lodge, Ashburton, really friendly and helpful, I even took my son’s down there on different days to see what they thought, they really like it, really impressed with the place as a whole, and they have a great Sunday Carvery!

Tamsen wanted to get going sooner, so we moved the date forward to August…..for one reason or another, we had to then move it back to September. But there were other tasks/setups we needed to have in place to be ready…….there where delay after delay, so guess what?! We are back to the original date! 23rd of October!

Another ‘coincidence’…….getting the Right bank for us.

When I registered Me, Myself and I Ltd, we got loads of mail! (you always do, happened years ago when I set up another company, but I didn’t take it anywhere). One of the on-line banks we had a lot of mail/post from, was one called ‘Anna’. That was my late mothers name, I didn’t jump at it as things had………let’s say not ended well after she died and thing’s came to light. So I had tried 3 or 4 different banks, high street or on-line ones, they made it SO hard going!! Tamsen and I decided to meet up last Saturday, we chose Newton Abbot Library (lovely building!), nice and quite, plenty of space for us to work upstairs…perfect! We had to get the bank account sorted ASAP as it was stopping us getting bookings for the training and moving forward.

So, after going through to a bank she banks with to set up an account with them……everything went on a ‘go slow’! Internet wouldn’t connect or took forever! Poor Tamsen, she was getting so stressed, all this back round and setting up stuff was for me to do. I remember saying to her about the bank Anna.

We had a talk about it and my mother. After I meet Tamsen, I felt so, much more confident and almost back to being ‘Me’ again. A few months ago, I went back to my mothers grave, hadn’t been there for over 7 years. I had a chat with her…..bit one-sided!, I told her I missed her but, for me more importantly, I forgave her. I cried like a baby but felt I could move on with the next chapter of my life. Tamsen had talked about it and as she said, when you die, all the old ‘issues’ die with them, there’s no hate, anger, resentment whatever it is, there is just ‘them’, pure love.

I really would like to believe that. Maybe it true, because, guess what?

We sailed through the Anna system and have an account with them! But what is odd, but quite funny really, when they send you any communication, it Meows at you!! I do like cat’s, miss having one………and yes, my mother Anna, did have a cat!

But there’s been several things that have happened and we have had to go back to our original decisions.

Odd how things turn out hay?