Don't worry I am not about to starting telling you about ancient Rome or anything so bear with me, just want to give you a little background on me.
Okay where do I start..... ah yes, I was born on 28th March 1983 in Sheffield, the son of Anthony and Dawn Robinson. Living in Sheffield until I was 7, we then moved to a little town called Dronfield which I always tell people who don't have a clue where it is 'it's in between Sheffield and Chesterfield'. It was in Dronfield where I have my fondest memories (don't really remember my time in Sheffield to be honest). Oh forgot to mention I have a sister who is 3 years younger than me. I then met my wife Lorraine at work (more on that later) in 2004, we moved into our house in Barnsley and it is here that will serve as my base for my years at Uni.
Now onto education, moving into Dronfield I first went to Dronfield Junior School which was ACE, they even had Kriss Akabusi come into our school on sports day, what a legend! Then came real work which did not agree we me at all, at age 13 the last thing I was interest in was doing homework which is what secondary schools demanded from me, I just wanted to enjoy life and play football or tennis with my mates. This then is more than likely why I didn't do very well in my school days, results day came and went bagging myself a poor 1 C grade for woodwork which to be honest my dad turned around from a disaster into something okay in about an hour (cheers dad). Of course a year or two before the exams we were asked 'what do you want to become when you are older?' and having grown out of the old answer 'a formula 1 driver' I really had no idea, nothing seemed to float my boat. Most of my mates were the same, me and one of my best mates Paul 'Hitman' Raymond Hart decided bugger it lets carry on the party and go to college and do something that at the time was sought after......we went and did a GNVQ in I.T. at the Chesterfield College. We had a great 3 years there, meeting good people and having great nights out, watching the world cup 2002 (as I write this the world cup 2010 is almost upon us......COME ON ENDLAND!!), it was a really great time of my life with no worries at all, no responsibilities which let's be honest between the ages of 16-19 is probably for the best. After completing my courses I then got a job at Henry Boot PLC in the I.T. dept. where I stayed for 4 years, it wasn't the most exciting job in the world but I loved the guys I worked with, a big shout out to Tomo, Mr P and Double D. It was while working in this department that I met my wife Lorraine, she worked for the construction arm in case you hadn't guessed it was called Henry Boot Construction, we met in October 2004 and moved into our nice new build house in April 2005 (moved pretty quick). Lorraine made me see there was more to life than going out and getting drunk every night, I decided to get a job in the construction arm of HB which after finding out the kind of money you could made even more sense, I became a assistant construction planner (when I met Lorraine she was a Planner), this suddenly turned me from a poorly paid I.T. worker into some kind of superstar or so it felt. Suddenly I was a wanted man, the construction industry was booming and they happily paid silly money for me. So to say my school grades had held me back would be a lie, although I wish I did better than I actually did.
So life was great, then in July 2008 we had some shocking news, good but shocking......we were........PREGNANT. Yep I had actually made another human being, I couldn't believe it. After the initial shock I was over the moon. I have always wanted to have children so although not planned it was a great feeling. I have also failed to mention me and Lorraine married in October 2006, a lovely day only surpassed by the birth of our baby. 9 months later out popped a beautiful baby girl who we named Isobel which Lorraine picked and always liked after reading a Barbara Erskine book I believe it was, either way we both loved then name and now we had a beautiful baby girl to give it too. Isobel Lorraine Robinson was born on the 31st March 2008, she was due on the 23rd which funnily enough was the same date I was due. In mid march Lorraine finished work and I also finished work to give the stay at home dad thing a try. It was an amazing experience but after 3 months the time had come for Lorraine to try to find work, I also had decided as much as I loved spending time with my daughter at home, the house work was not such a nice job or a job I was good at plus I needed something to stimulate my brain which felt like I was going downhill quickly which for me was a bigger problem than most.
I decided to look into jobs I wanted to do that wouldn't be boring or the same day after day. After exploring lots of options I made the decision that Child nursing was for me. I had to go to Barnsley College to study towards an access to heath and nursing to meet the requirements for Uni due to my grades at school. Got my place now I just need to finish the college course and start Uni is September. Really can't wait.
Anyway, can't think of much more I can tell you to be honest, if you want to know anything else please feel free to ask. I will try to update as often as I can or when I have something worth blogging, once I start Uni I would hope to be able to give you a run down of how things are going at least weekly if not more often.
Bye for now!
