About a year ago my partner saw my poetry notebook lying around and went to read it - I quickly flew across the room and grabbed the book away defensively and couldn't bring myself to let him read it. In the autumn I held a poetry reading night round a bonfire, and read out a few of my poems. Ok, I was so nervous I raced through them and they were read out really badly, but I actually managed to bring myself to read them to a group of people and even got a couple of compliments! (Not on my group reading skills however...!)

Participated in Kickboxing lessons - this one was a while back now, but my sister had been asking me to go to classes with her since I was a little kid and until a year or so ago, I had never had the confidence to agree to it. I really enjoyed it but unfortunately we had to stop the lessons as the time the class was held was prooving difficult.

I participated in Zumba classes. I have been trying to work on my confidence for years now and never would have dreamed of attempting any kind of class let alone an aerobic/dance based one. I went for a few weeks and always put all my effort into it and even found I was managing to keep up pretty well! Really good fun but the classes were getting pretty samey so seemed better value for money just doing it from home...