No, this isn’t a take on the where’s Walley books, it’s just a quick post showing where the county of Wiltshire is in respect to the rest of the UK. The map below clearly indicates its location.
Essentially it sits at the bottom of England to the west of London, it’s considered to be in the South West region.
My plan is to quit smoking within the next few weeks and I will update this blog with how I did it (assuming I succeed), how I’m feeling and how everyone around me is feeling about my moods etc. I’m smoking between 40-50 a day right now and have been for at least 3 years, I know it sounds a lot, but they are roll-ups as opposed to tailor-mades, so contain a lot less tobacco per cigarette.
I’ve tried giving up many times before but somehow this time I feel much more confident about the whole thing. I’ve tried most things over the years, the whole cutting down approach was the old standard, I’d work my way down to about 5-10 per day but then it would start to creep up again and before I knew it I was back on 20 plus a day.
On one occasion I went to the doctors and got help, this was in the form of Zyban, before it was widely prescribed, however I had the weirdest side effects, in that my short term memory basically stopped working, so I had to stop taking them or I would have lost my job.
This time around I’m not going to do anything quite that drastic, I’m thinking of a big combination of things, hypnotherapy, probably one of those nicorette inhalers, partly for the nicotine, but also partially so I have something to do with my hands, this is the thing I struggle with, and I don’t want to stop going down the pub for the next 6 months! I’m not entirely sure yet but will update as and when it all starts happening and I do stop smoking for good, or at least plan it properly.
Before anyone leaves a comment on here (I should be so lucky that anyone actually reads it!) saying that this is a sign and not a map, I do know, I just wanted an interesting thingy, which is to do with finding your way around as my first post. So here it is, the famous magic roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire.
It sits just outside the town, and strangely has the fire station right next to it, although I would have thought that it’s mayhem there at the best of times, without throwing a fire engine with it’s sirens blaring and lights flashing into the mix too! But some rather bright town planner decided this is the way forward, so there it is.
