Trying to run an employment agency in the area with a bit of networking and BNI thrown in; singing in a local rock/blues band with my husband, a bonkers drummer and a guitarist who looks like the band’s accountant. Two rescue dogs from our local dogs’ home, Bo and Houdini - Team Bodini – Bo, a 10 year old obese collie who’s on weight watcher’s for dogs and has lost 10kgs in 5 months and ‘Dini, a 2 year old hyperactive Jack Russell with ENORMOUS ears, an annoying yip and the attention span of a gnat who keeps us awake all night wanting us to throw his rubber duck for him The fight I have with a 182 year old house when I’m no domestic goddess and a garden resembling a rain-forest when I’m no gardener, all in the wonderful Stoke on Trent summers of the last 3 years What do all these things have one thing in common?…My geographical placement…4 miles from a bustling metropolis with it’s own peculiar dialect that cannot pronounce my name without making it into one word of annerolland or inexplicably mixing the capital letters to call me Hannah ‘Olland. World…I bring you ‘Up ‘anley Duck’!…