Hello
Welcome to my blog. I love to talk, talk, talk, which is the reason for my blog, so I can share the things that interest me with anyone who would like to read them.
To introduce myself, I am Karen Freeman and at the time of setting up my blog in August 2011, I am in my mid fifties, with a mind set still of a teenager, but everything else definitely shows signs of my real age. My photograph on the home page is a recent one (taken at a nice distance away, so it doesn't show the wrinkles!!).
I have been married to Steve Freeman for 34 years (as of next year) which we think is quite an achievment in this day and age, and we are very proud, although Steve thinks he definitely deserves a long service medal for putting up with me for all these years. We have one Son Adrian who at the time of writing is almost 29 years old.
I could write pages and pages about my life, and you never know, when I have the urge I might go into my past, but I will start my blog slap bang up to date with just a brief introduction to myself and my family.
Steve, husband retired as a Chief Superintendant from the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary after serving 30 years and in the last few years leading up to his retirement, I left my employment as a Legal Secretary to start up our silver business, where we sell good quality silver items on ebay and in our own silver website It took these few years to successfully get it up and running, so when Steve retired I put him to work straight away, and kept him busy, so he wouldn't be bored after working in a stressful and pressured environment. I did however sack him in the first few days, as he took it upon himself to play around with my computer and move some of my files, which clearly was a sackable offence. I did however re-instate him fairly quickly once he restored them to their rightful position and we have been blissfully working together in the business ever since. I would hasten to add, that we have a clear defining line, as he has his jobs and I have mine, and we have different rooms in the house, as being together 24 hours a day, definitely would not work.
He now does all the buying of the silver, the cleaning (as he has not had much practice in any sort of cleaning throughout our married life!!!) the photographing, and then he hands everything over to me to book the items in, prepare the listings and deal with all the sales and customer contact, which I really enjoy. Steve also now builds websites in addition to the silver side, so his knowledge on this has helped me set up my own blog.
I will now be totally honest, and say that although I love my family, I am very much an animal lover, and sometimes I do prefer animals to humans, I know this will shock quite a lot of people, but anyone who knows me will bear this out. This probably is because I am extremely stroppy, can be very bad tempered, very opinionated, and all things bad about humans, but somehow I can relate to animals in a much softer way. I particularly love dogs and donkeys and am a volunteer at the EST Centre in Ivybridge where special donkeys are used to give riding therapy to disabled and special needs children. The EST is a charity within the main large Worldwide Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary I have set up categories in this blog giving more details of this and also my experiences with puppy walking.
