Now the snow has melted...

The snow truly looks PERFECt when you are inside. Once you get out, you are falling over everywhere, they stop buses and if you were in a car you most likely got a snowball thrown at you by a group of lads. But for a child it's so much fun! I got send home from work midday when the buses stopped running and walked my 2 hour walk in the snow to see my beautiful nephew and niece and have some fun in the snow! No photoshoots for me, just throwing snow around and having a laugh, the PERFECT way to enjoy the snow! We even made it on to the Total Swindon website, twice!

The first time for the wonderful picture my sister took of me and my nephew Bret having a snowball fight!

The second was for my shot of my beautiful bullmasstiff Roxy wearing my sash on our walk round the lakes, shes looking quite slim for a new mummy of 3 ;)

So in other news myself, Miss Wiltshire and Miss Swindon will be appearing on the Kiss Gyms building so when you drive past the best gym in Swindon town you will see our giant images! But not this picture as this was one georgia quickly took, with the bane of my life the kettlebell! The shoot was a good 2 hours long but there were some great images, we had fun and i can't wait to see the results! Keeping on the fitness level, its less than 7 weeks away from the PEFRECT finals so i have been taking advantage of the amazing gym classes Kiss has to offer. I'v tried Zumba, Bootylicious and Spin classes this week, Zumba was my favourite! You WILL be sweating and it's a fun routine! I also had a training session with my fab pt Adam York who put me through my paces!! We have also undergone my diet and made some big changes, so by the time March comes i will be lean and trim!! And will celebrate with chocolate cake! :)

Febuary is shaping up to be a good month with the Big Red Bash in aid of BHF in Sailsbury on the 1st Febuary, and keeping with fundraiser for the BHF we are also competing in a charity pageant to raise funds for the BHF. This is the first time all the wiltshire beauty queens will be competing against each other, watch out for fireworks ;) Joking, It will be a fun day out and ive missed pageant day, the last one was september, too far away!! So i best be getting off the laptop to get in shape and some last minute studying before the working week begins again. No rest for the wicked!

A new year, a new start

2013, unlucky for some yet lucky for others. Every year everyone says they will have a new start, they write up their new's year resolutions and clear out all the rubbish left behind from the Chirstmas period. I spent my chirstmas volunterring for the Christmas Care Shelter, helping the homeless and less privalied around christmas time, the amount they do is unreal! It was a very humbling experience and makes you feel gratful for all in your life. I may not have the latest mobile phone or the most expensive pageant gown but what i do have is a roof over my head, food to eat and the support of my friends, family and boyfriend. Not everyone is so lucky i spent Christmaseve sorting out all the donated clothes, and also in the food halls. here i am with all the donated food, it touched my heart what people donated though people did donate verrry out of date food, shameful!! People will also bringing in baked cakes and goods which was great for the homemade touch! On Christmas day I spent my afternoon with the homeless and the lonely, talking to them about their life and helping them to the right facilities. I also must of spent about 3 hours playing count 4! They loved it, just a chance to playt games like you do at chirstmas and have a conversation! They had a homecooked chirstmas meal and food throughout the day, beds to sleep ain, roof over their head and warm clothes to sleep in! It's a shame we can not provide this all year round to the many homeless although there are places that help in Swindon, but at least for chirstmas they felt a part of something!

So now who is feeling the pinch (money and weight wise) after the whole Christmas and new year?! I know the feeling, but it's time to get back into the swing of things and the finals of Europe's Perfect is only 3 months away! This is where i really thank my sponsors Kiss Gyms https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kiss-Gyms/101257789948907?ref=ts&fref=ts#!/KissGymSwindon?fref=ts
I now have 12 weeks to get back into pageant shape after eating too much and being too merry, and now that Kiss gyms have classes as well! Dream! you will see this face in Zumba every week! I am truly grateful for what Kiss have done for me, they sponsored me just at a low point in my personal life, and gave me a lifeline through exercise. I lost weight, met new people and felt fantastic! i had great personal training sessions from Adam York, pictured here and although i have been a bit slacking at late with both jobs, and my college course, I am sure when it comes to walking in that bikini in March i will be a fit and as healthy as i want to be. Also its such a good price as well, and im not just saying it because they are my sponsors as i joined BEFORE they sponsored me! If you're thinking of joining use the code "3fbf02f7" and you will get half price joining fee, with £15.99 per month with NO contract. Not NO contract yet you have to still pay one months fee for cancelling. Nope you simply cancel your membership, simple as that!! But with awesome trainers, brand new equipment, classes and the most amaaazzzing showers then it's well worth the money, easy to get to in town centre and just basically the best!!!

So my advice to all my readers and followers, make this year YOUR year. This year I am hoping to bring home that crown and complete my dream of competing in America as a PERFECT finalist. But even if I don't place, I will not give up and will keep trying. I will keep helping the charities close to my heart, I will keep pushing myself harder to complete my studies and improve on my profession career. I will continue to be friends with the BEST pageant sister a girl could have with my Wiltshire beauty Queens and I will continue to appreciate what life throws me. 2012 taught me that life can change within a milisecond but everything happens for a reason and right now I am so happy I went through the worst to come out with the best. Happy new year everyone, I wish everyone the  most PERFECT year ever!!

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He's behind you!!

Wow, it's Christmas Eve tomorrow and it seems like we were just starting December! As an early Christmas treat myself and Miss Swindon 2012 was invited to the Press Night of the Swindon Panto Aladdin starring Keith Chegwin, a regular to the Wyvern Theatre Panto. My first time at a Panto and wasnt going too good considering my bus was late making me get there just as the show started, cue awkward people getting up soi we could reach our seats and then my tights snagging so having to remove them and getting cold legs! But the show was amazing! The dancers were fab and there was comedy and laughter for every age group! it was also very interactive which at first you'd say things a bit quiet but by the end you were shouting with the rest of them! At the interval we became presenters for Swindon TV, interviewing some of the younger audience, and some of the comments they came out with! One young boy fancied himself a star in the making and was delighted to be interviewed, happy to make his day!!

Also i must be doing something right with this blogger markley as I have been asked to be a fashion blog writer for the new pageant magazine Sparkle Girlz. This fab new online magazine has interviews from different pageant queens, tips on how to compete, make up and outfit from the top pageant queens and coaches so it was an honour to be able to write a piece! I wrote about the biggest topic to do with Christmas, the Christmas party dress! http://www.sparklegirlz.com/christmas-fashion-tips-by-englands-perfect-miss-hannah-golding/ read here and I hope you all love it! I love writing about all different sort of things from this blog to my poetry so if anyone knows anything else that I could do, I would love to be a part of it!

It's nice to be thanked for all your efforts you do in the community and I was asked alongside other members of the Swindon community who help to make a difference like the mayor and counsels come to The Curry Place in Swindon to welcome their new dish "The Big Ban" to celebrate the failed prediction of the end of the world. Also to celebrate the year with all the charity work they do alongside the Mayor's charity. I couldn't stay for the meal as I was on my lunchbreak from my nursery job (and i'm a vegetarian) but they gave me a lovely bunch of flowers to say thank you and after college they cooked me the best vegetarian curry I have ever had! It was gorgeous and I will definitely be going there for my curries from now on!!

And even though it's Christmas I won't be having a break from the gym (but will still be eating those choccies,rude not to!), I recently got the images back from the shoot I did last month to promote my amazing gym and sponsor Kiss Gyms! They now have tons more equipment, putting on classes from next year and just had a delivery of punchbags! Destressing to the max! I want to thank them for everything they have done for me as if it wasn't for Kiss Gyms i wouldn't be standing here (well sitting) as England's PERFECT Miss. Also a big thank you to Adam York of Kiss Gyms who has helped me in more ways than one. After my fiance leaving, I didn't know how much I had actually gained (see past blogs for shocking pictures, i know you want to!). But thanks to Adam providing me with personal training, I have slimmed down to a more comfortable size and no silly diets in sight! I have a health approach to exercise and am toning and shaping up! Bikini body for March here I come! I've also learned that you don't need to spend all your time in the gym on the cardio machines, it's all about the weights to strengthen! 

So to every one of my likers and readers, a big Merry Christmas to you all!! I will be spending my Christmas at the Methadist Church feeding the homeless and making them smile on one of the most loving holidays of the year! hope you all enjoy the time you spend with your families and treasure the gifts you receive. Love <3

"So let's all have a great race and let's go!" Everyone runs, "No wait for the horn!!"

Running around Coate water on a cold Sunday morning dressed as a Christmas tree is pretty much a average thing these days in the world of England's Perfect Miss! This time we were running for Prospect Hospice, a fab charity helping terminally ill patients live out the last of their days as comfortable as they can, and also support the families and friends of the patients with coping. Every year for the past 6 years they have done a santa dash which last year I ran with my puppy Roxy foxy and now she is massive! How much has happened in a year is crazy! This year I ran with Miss Wiltshire Galaxy and Miss Swindon. We were the trio of snow women, Mrs Claus and the Christmas tree that got away! We were honoured to start the race off and typical me confused everyone! I said a nice little speech, lets go have fun and let's go! And everyone started running!! They were meant to wait for the horn to go off, so back to the start! hey I was seeing if they were paying attention, which they were NOT! And we have to bring some comedy value to the race as we are dressed as santa's! No room for seriousness when you have tinsel draped all around you and a star on your head!

Georgia speed ahead whilst me and Ela took a good pace! It was tiring but great fun, and my little niece Keria ran the end with us which she always loves doing at my charity races! We were straight into pageant duty and handing out the gorge tree medals to the rest of the runners in the 5k race! Then Santa gave everyone lot's of sweets which was when my nieces face went from a frown from the cold to a big smile! There was a free coffee or tea but they had ran out by the time we had finished so it was a nice biscuit! :)

We also handed out the winner's medals, and it was amazing to be part of the event! Here us #wiltshirebeautyqueens are with our medals, still smiling and wishing everyone an amazing Christmas!! December is usually quiet for appearances as we are gearing up for Christmas! Christmas jumpers and decorations are filling our time, but I am super excited to be going to the panto with Miss Swindon on Tuesday for a special V.I.P night and then volunteering Chrsitmas Eve and Christmas Day for the homeless at the Methodist Church at Queens Drive. Now all we can wish for is snow and it will be the perfect White Christmas, but maybe hold off til after the 27th so I can pass my driving test! Have a PERFECT day!

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The holidays are coming....

The start of december, when it is sociably acceptable to sing out of tune to chirstmas songs, wear novelty jumpers and eat lots of chocolate! Also most running events are usually a blur of red due to the santa dash! This past sunday myself, miss wiltshire galaxy and miss swindon took part in the Wiltshire Air Ambulance's first Santa Dash at Lydiard Park. The event, which raised over £5000 was the first in it's history and was helped by the Swindon Rotary Club. Everyone received a santa outfit and had a warm up of Zumba! With a little gangnam style thrown in! It was icy and cold but over 200 turned up! We had a press shoot with Santa (I wished for a PERFECT Christmas) and Whisky Bear, the WAA's official mascot. Werent these ponies cute with their antlers on! Then the mayor opened up the race and we were off!! Georgia had her little Henry in his pram enjoying the ride whilst we jogged and dodged the icy puddles! It was a great chance for a sunday morning exercise with some pageant gossip thrown in! The support was great also!

We crossed the line singing christmas songs, out of breath but they still count, and was handed our cute little medals and a snapshot with the mayor who congratulated us. But the real heroes are the ones still keeping Wiltshire Air Ambulance running and saving lifes! I am so happy to be a part of something that makes a difference in the community! We even got our santa picture in the paper the next day, and they just used our names for once! No titles! :O Now we will be opening the Santa Dash at Coate Water in aid of Prospect Hospice, a charity us Wiltshire beauty queens help alot at. We will be doing something different from the Santa Sash though so look out for a christmas tree and a snowwoman, and whatever Ela will be! See you there people, remember go PERFECT or go HOME! For it's christmas!!!

A busy time away....

I decided to stay away from social networking for a while to see how long I would last without modern technology, 2 weeks was the most! How long have you guys tried to go without facebook or twitter (I must admit I still had twitter otherwise I would of felt cut off from the world!). Before I decided to deactivate facebook, I made a couple of appearances with my England's Perfect Miss sash, a very glamorous weekend.

Me and the other Wiltshire Beauty Queens (hashtagging on twitter) were special guests at the Kick4Life masquerade ball at Menzies Hotel in Swindon. There was an auction, live music and a huge raffle! Sadly I did not win the holiday to Turkey, but I had a great time helping raise funds! The charity do amazing work out in Africa and I am happy to say we will be doing alot more for the charity, starting with 24hour football, this Saturday, 24 hours non stop of football to raise funds! Get the football kit out!

 

Next stop was the Bowood Wedding Fayre, ran by Hazelwood Boutique. Me, Miss Wiltshire Galaxy and Miss Swindon were asked to model for the show. I LOVE modelling these beautiful dresses, image here by Kevin Belson. Also as a treat we had our makeup done for us by the amazing Katy Pheiffer who made us look like goddesses!! I had the vintage look and everyone said how amazing I looked (will take as a compliment as they wouldn't say I looked like I needed makeup before :s). There were two shows and we modelled two dresses each, I seriously loved them both and wish I could snap them up! Especially Ela's bridesmaid dress, pretty in pink!!

And we do like to mess around, here is the classic Bridesmaid envy, love this shot! It was such fun and an impulse thing and that's what I love about being a titleholder. You met such amazing people and get to do something different each week. Before competing in pageants I was shy and found it hard to make friends, now I have friends all over the country! I have more self-confidence to try new things and I thank my lucky stars that I have been blessed with such good fortunes! love my sister queens! Now there is a busy weekend ahead as there is the Kick4Life 24hr football, the MECA Fight Night where us wiltshire beauty queens will be helping hand out the raffle tickets, and then Sunday we will be off to Lydiard for the Santa Dash in aid of Wiltshire Air Ambulance! I am so excited to be starting the race off and can't wait to see all the Santa outfits, it's beginning to look alot like Christmas! Let's hope I can get over this fever!! I shall leave you with one of my fab images from CMG Photography which I received all my images from, showing the lighter side of modelling. We are here to have fun :) Happy Thursday guys!

Spooky for Halloween

I was going to have a weekend off appearances but I just can't help myself!! It was halloween weekend so everyone was dressed up in their scary costumes and carving pumpkins! I was invited to watch the 4FW https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244254929028063.55669.244138555706367&type=1#!/Official4FW?fref=ts Halloween Wrestling special in Swindon where I got to go backstage! I met a few wrestlers including Junior Heavyweight Champion "The Sheik" Behnam Ali and Heavyweight Champion "English Lion" Eddie Ryan and got to hold one of the belts, PERFECT accessory right!!

I even made an halloween outfit, that's a fake spider in my hair by the way ;) The show itself was amazing, there was alot of entertainment and talent, these guys train hard to be able to put on such a show! If you ever watched wrestling as a kid, which my family used to all the time with the great legends like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, then you know what sort of show to expect! The crowd were really into it, interacting with the stars and booing and cheering! You can't help but join in! Sadly I left before the Fancy Dress prize was given out, sigh, but overall had a fab night! So I think you should all come to the next event and see what  English Wrestling is about! And if you were expecting scary, well here is a picture of me and Miss Swindon Ela at my personal trainer's Halloween party, never worn so much make up in my life!! haha Hope you have a PERFECT halloween! Trick or treat!!!