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My Diary
by Gail Emms
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Saturday 14th April I went out with Hazel and Marissa this evening. Hazel is married with 2 kids and I stayed round hers that night. I went to school with these 2 girls and I have never been out to their local place – we’ve always met up in Bedford, so tonight was my first outin...
Wednesday 11th April I went to the AGM of a charity that I am patron for – Bosom Pals. This is a group of ladies that meet once a month that have been or are going through the gruelling stages of breast cancer. They are top ladies and they really help each other get through the ba...
Saturday 7th April It is my brother’s birthday today! He is 24 today and how depressing for him?! He is in hospital and has a plaster cast on and he can’t move! He is on the operation schedule again today, but I am not holding much hope. The worse thing is that he ha...
Monday 2nd April I have a big “L” on my forehead today, or at least this is what everyone keeps doing to me today! Damn! But I had Sky+ fitted today! Yippee! That has cheered me up!! Wednesday 3rd April I went into London in the evening to meet Mel Goldberg for ...
Saturday 31st March It was Premier A county weekend! Herts had some work to do. We needed to pull it out of the bag and as I had been injured, I wasn’t feeling too optimistic! As my week hadn’t been the luckiest one either, I was thinking that I had some curse on me and eve...
Thursday 29th March It was the Sports Industry Awards in the evening. I was really looking forward to this as last year it was brilliant (except everyone remembered me getting very drunk!) and it is a really good evening to meet lots of contacts for the future. My friend Lucy fro...
Tuesday 27th March We lost the 2nd leg of the semi-final to Greve. It was pretty depressing but we knew that they were probably the strongest team in the competition. I was in a mood as I pulled my thigh within the first few points of my match and my leg was seizing up by the ...
Saturday 24th March I had been invited to go on “Fighting Talk” on BBC 5Live with Colin Murray and it was going to be the 1st time that the show had all female guests on. I was really nervous as the other guest were Eleanor Aldroyd, Sue Mott and Hazel Irvine – all very clever people ...
Friday 16th March Went to Reading to see Ed and my sister and to go out for some food together. It was really nice to see Lisa as I haven’t seen her for ages. We went to Wagamama’s and then to a bar for a glass of wine and a gossip. Felt a bit sorry for Ed as Lisa and I te...
Tuesday 13th March Off the Swiss Open today. I am only playing ladies doubles as Nathan is going to have an elbow operation. It seems weird going for 1 event but it makes a nice change! Clarky, Rob and Donna went by EasyJet to Basel and when looking through the flight magazi...
Monday 26th February Had my carpets done today! Was really excited as the carpets I had in before were the original ones that the builders put in when the house was first built 6 years ago and by now they were really stained (many spilt cups of tea!). The new ones are fantastic!...
Friday 23rd February Went away for the weekend again! This time, Ed and I decided on Riga, Latvia. Not quite sure why we chose this place, but it was another country to add to the list! I looked on the internet to see what temperature it was going to be so I knew what to...
Thursday 22nd February It was the England v Germany match today at Preston. Ed was staying with me at the time and managed to get him to come and watch! I used the “you haven’t watched me play for ages” line, which is actually true as the last time he came to a badminton match w...
Tuesday 20th February It was club match day again! It was the 1st semi-final leg of the league between us (Team Vestsjaelland) and Greve. Donna and I travelled in the morning, leaving my house at 4am, so we were pretty tired when we got to the match. I had to play ladies doub...
Saturday 17th February I went to my first spinning class today! I had never been before and I thought I would give it a try at the David Lloyd near where I live. The good thing about spinning is that you put the effort in as much as you want to. There were some serious bik...
Sunday 11th February Went back to England in the morning. I had a good time in Marrakech, but I was glad to go home. It is a beautiful city but a different one to anything I have been to before. On the way to the airport, there were 2 men on a motorbike carrying a sheep!&n...
Thursday 15th February I had a B&Q today in Southampton. It was for the customer services department and it involved a bit of morale speaking from me and a bit of a hit around in the conference room! It went well although more people couldn’t come along as there wasn’t enoug...
Friday 9th February Got up ridiculously early to get to Luton and hopefully catch our flight to Marrakech! There hadn’t been any more snow so all was back to normal and we left for Morocco and the sun! It was a bit strange leaving a country that was 1 degree and landing after just 3 ...
Tuesday 6th February I went for a meeting and a dinner with the head guys at Lenovo at their offices in Basingstoke. Lenovo are one of the sponsors for the Olympics and haven’t really done much publicity to promote this. It is now that they have decided to push this and are looki...
Monday 5th February Unbelievably, we had a Danish match today! Great scheduling or what?! It was because the Danish Nationals were the weekend of 9th to 11th Feb so they thought that it would be fine to put a match on this day. Not so good for us. After getting bac...
Friday 2nd February Woke up feeling completely jet lagged and got in my car and headed for Manchester. Arriving at the Velodrome, it really didn’t feel like the National Championships! In previous years, I have got to the place early and settled in and chilled out before all the...
