Lesley Ure – Wishing away my twenties

I just remember a 9-weeks thing, 9 weeks delay and I don’t know why 9 weeks was always the thing or whether that’s just me.

Simon: That’s a long time.

I don’t even know if it was always 9 weeks but for some reason that just sticks in my memory. 9 weeks, oh my goodness, and when you’ve been counting down the days and somebody tells you 9 weeks, you just think, “Oh you are joking.”

It’s soul destroying almost.

I mean Midge and I again not to sound too negative because again there’s been many, many positives and I want to be really clear about that, I just remember thinking I’m wishing away my 20s.

My 20s were just … and it was just waiting for him coming home or counting the days and our lives revolved around when he was home, when he was away, you know the experience of being a parent wasn’t really what I thought it would be because of all the additional stress factors you would have of just being that person responsible for everything, so there was that.

And I do think you know I absolutely wished my 20s away. It was just a bit of a blur so …