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Wet Wipes And Wine
#7 The One Where I Wrote A Book And Why You Should Too!
In this episode, Host Nikki Collinson-Phenix reflects on the launch of her book, 'Wanderlust Calling: The Ultimate Guide to World Schooling and Full-Time Family Travel.' She shares her journey of writing the book, from the initial desire to leave a legacy to the challenges and self-doubt she faced along the way. Nikki discusses her decision to travel full-time and the impact it has had on her and her family's happiness. She encourages listeners to consider writing their own books and shares anecdotes from her travels in Romania. Overall, Nikki aims to inspire others to live an extraordinary life and make a positive impact on the world.
Takeaways
Writing a book can be a fulfilling way to leave a legacy and inspire others.
Traveling full-time can bring joy, freedom, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Challenges and self-doubt are common when pursuing a new path, but it's important to overcome them.
Everyone has a story to tell, and there is a book inside each of us.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Book Launch
02:24 The Journey to Writing a Book
05:10 Seeking an Extraordinary Life
08:24 Feeling Miserable and Craving Change
10:45 The Decision to Travel Full-Time
12:36 Struggles and Mindset Challenges
14:01 Choosing the Topic: World Schooling and Full-Time Travel
17:30 The Process of Writing the Book
18:56 Overcoming Challenges and Finding Support
21:05 Dealing with Menopause and Health Challenges
23:00 Reading an Anecdote from the Book: Bears in Romania
29:10 Sharing the Journey and Inspiring Others
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Quick, pass me the wipes. Hi, and welcome to Wet Wipes and Wine, the podcast for parents who maybe want to live life a little bit differently from the norm. Maybe you want to travel more as a family or just explore new possibilities. Maybe you have family dreams you want to achieve, or maybe you just want to be surrounded by people who remind you that when life throws a load of parent and crap at you, that wet wipes or wine is usually the answer. I'm your host, nikki Collins and Phoenix, and each week I'll be bringing you real life stories from my own parenting journey. I'll also be welcoming guests to share theirs, as well as introducing you to new ideas, thoughts, tips and tricks from my little black book of awesome people. Welcome to Wet Wipes and Wine. Too early for wine. Hey everyone, and welcome to today's episode of Wet Wipes and Wine. I'm absolutely thrilled to have you come and hang out with me for another little sesh and I hope, wherever you are in the world, life has been treating you fine.
Speaker 1:Now, the day that this podcast is going out is Tuesday, the 13th of February. Now, this is a very important day One, because it is my niece, hannah's birthday. Happy birthday to you, hannah. But also because yesterday, the 12th of February, was a very significant day for me and that's why today you've just got me, because I thought I might just come and do a little bit of a post 12th of February 2024 or moment of reflection on something that has been huge in my world as a mum and as a parent and also kind of why part of the journey to this podcast as well. So, unless you've been hiding under a cave or I have not been shouting loud enough, yesterday my book launched and yes, the 12th of February 2024, my book launched, called Wunderlust, calling the Ultimate Guide to World Schooling and Four Time Family Travel, and it has been such a journey and I kind of wanted to share it with you because not because I want to sit and blow sunshine at my backside Because I want to hopefully kind of inspire you if you're listening to perhaps consider writing a book yourself, because you know the people that I work with who, within the publishing world, have been really, really inspirational to me in revisiting kind of why I wanted to write a book in the first place.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to be honest, the first reason was selfish. The first reason was I had it on my bucket list from years and years and years ago and one of these people that has a bucket list thing, I love a bucket list and writing a book, a proper book, is always on my bucket list. So, yeah, there was the moment when I was like I need to write a book, I need to take that off my bucket list. But back in the beginning, when I wanted to write a book, I didn't really know what I wanted to write it. I was just going to tick the box and go over in a book is what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:But as I started spending more time with friends that had written books and with people that were connected to publishing, one of the things that came out that kind of really I guess it kind of was the thing that cemented why I actually decided to actually crack on and write the book, which is something I would love. I just want to impart it with you was all about the concept of legacy is about leaving a legacy, and when I started hearing about leaving a legacy in the form of a book, that kind of touched a nerve with me, because isn't necessarily leaving some kind of major global legacy, but at the time when it was being spoken to me was also about just a legacy for my kids and a legacy maybe for their kids, and just a little something that, when my time on this earth was up, there was a little bit of Nikki still floating around in the world or a little bit of a ripple effect of something that I had created still going on in the world. Like if you look at some of the books and I'm not sitting there saying, oh my goodness, I'm not sitting here saying like I've just created and they Shakespeare or anything like that, you know where the books are going to be going for hundreds of years, or Charles Dickens and all of that. What I mean is is just to have left a little mark on a little corner of the world that just says, as a result of me writing this book, other family members within my world might know me a little bit more, understand me a little bit more, but also people that don't know me might know a little bit more about me. But also that people who don't know me might get to know me and that, through the process of writing the book, that it might inspire or change the trajectory of somebody's life. Not because it's going to blow sunshine on my backside, because I'm not going to know that that's going to happen unless they tell me, but just to think that it's possible that some of what I write or have written in this book could enable somebody else's life that may not be as enriching as they would like it to be to change the path that it's on to be a life that's more fulfilling. So I just come off recording.
Speaker 1:I was speaking on our online summit literally before I started recording. This is why I thought, well, I'm all set up to record, I'm going to record this. I was really interesting because you know we were talking. We're talking about my travel journey and my travel adventures so far and why I wanted to do it, and one of the interesting things that I have talked about within the book, and on the kind of the back of the book as well, is that it's like the phrase some people I'm kind of wording it some people had settled for a nice life. World schooling opens the door to living an extraordinary life. It's an interesting concept because the fact is is my life before we hit the road and started traveling full time was not awful by any stretch of the words. It really was not an awful life. It was a nice life. We had good careers, we had good income, we had a roof over our heads, we had a lot of love and hugs and family and we worked hard to build our family and our health. Time was reasonably good in the grand scheme of things and my life was not awful.
Speaker 1:I work in places where life is very challenging. I work in slum areas, I work with people who live in poverty and I would never in a million years compare my life to theirs and would never even enter my head. My life was not bad in the grand scheme of things, but there's a but. Is that? One of the things I do believe is that, no matter what your path of life is and how it takes you, ultimately what we're seeking is just to be happy, happy and content, and how that looks to one person can be dramatically different to another person. So somebody could take my life that I was living and just be like a pig in shit and just go. I'm really, really happy Because that kind of life fulfills them, it lights them up. They love the routine, they love the structure, they love the kind of real closeness, of living in a very small place. I lived on an island. They love all of that. I know people that on the island where I grew up and was living there. So I know people that have never left. It's only 25 miles by 12, and they've never even left the island. But and for those people if that makes them happy, then that's incredible and I'm really happy that if they have found their source of happiness, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:But the truth is, for me I was miserable and despite looking at life with a glass half full because that's how I do look at life, a glass half full what I wanted was a glass really full, like I didn't wanna just have a glass half full, and I really felt like I shouldn't have to settle for a glass half full. Why can't I settle for my blooming glass to be completely full? And I knew very much that changing that was in my hands and my hands alone. It wasn't in anybody else's hands. I could carry on, you know, trickling through life, going. Yeah, life's okay, but knowing that inwardly I was really really miserable or I could actually do something about it, like just either put up and shut up or just change it, and I knew that, for me, travel is something that brings me joy. Freedom brings me joy, fluidity brings me joy. Change brings me joy. Change for some people is like they're worst nightmare. Change for me brings me a whole feeling of renew I don't know. Feeling of renewal, a feeling of something fresh and new to learn and explore and experience. And I get really, really itchy feet if I feel like life is becoming the same, it's becoming too samey and too routine.
Speaker 1:And I got to the point in my life where I was thinking is this it Am I just gonna live this life every day? Am I kids, just gonna, we're just gonna do the school one every day? I was living this hamster wheel life. You know right, I was kids were in breakfast club, I was working all day, then they were in after school club and then they were at evening activities. I barely saw them and then on Saturday the house was like a shit pit, because we're just trying to get through the insane-ness of work in school Monday to Friday and then on Saturday I'd be like Jesus, my day off and all I've got to do is clean up behind you bloody, messy people and do the laundry and all of that and try and restore some kind of normality in the house. And then on Sunday there was this like determination of we're gonna do something as a family. By four o'clock I could feel the angst of like, I've got to prep the pat lunches, is the school clothes ready for the next day? Am I ready for work the next day? And then Monday came when you're just like, oh, here we go again.
Speaker 1:And for me that did not bring me joy. What I craved was to travel and that's why eventually I had to. It was getting louder and louder. I couldn't ignore the call to switch up our life and to take it on a different pathway and to take the kids on a big adventure and to bring joy and happiness into all of our lives. And it's really nice now that two and a half years later, when our third year of travel, now kids are so happy and they're so confident and I'm so happy. Don't get me wrong, my husband's really happy, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:Has it been easy? No, all of life's challenges that you have at home they're still there. They just travel around with you. We've had times when there's been health challenges or maybe there's been a bit of a financial challenge or there's been something to do with family dynamics, or I've got a girl that's going through the throes of prepubescent hormone stuff and then where are you gonna be? And then breakdowns and all the same stuff that you have when you're back at home still happens. It's just the added bit is that you're not at home. You've got this other bit that either can add to the challenge of it because you are traveling with all this life stuff, or can actually just give you a bit of breathing space because you're not at home.
Speaker 1:And so I really wanted, when it came to writing the book over the journey of traveling is I started putting a bit more pressure on myself about you need to write this book. You need to write this damn book and stop talking about it and write it. But you know it's taken two and a half years to get to this point where we are right now, because I I didn't know what to write about. That's the truth of it. There's two actually. There's two things, three things why it took two and a half years. One was logistics. One was trying to find a place to actually give myself the headspace to write a book. The second was what the hell am I gonna write a book on. I could not, for the love of anything, decide what I was actually gonna write about. I felt like I had all these different topics and people were saying to me you should write about this, you should write about that, and then I was like I'll write about this. And then I was like, oh no, I'm not feeling that right now I'll write about that. I'm not feeling that right now and I just seem to be just going around the houses and not getting very far making a decision.
Speaker 1:And then I think my mindset got in the way as well. I'm the first person to pull up other people around the whole mind monkeys in post-its engine, whether you believe it exists or not, or whatever. But I did go through a period of time where I was saying to myself who the hell do you think you are? Do you think you are to write a book? Like you know, do you think a lot of yourself? Then love, if you think you can write a book.
Speaker 1:And I had to go through quite a lot of stuff and remind myself why was I writing this book? One, it was my bucket list. Two is because I wanted to leave a legacy. And three, it was because, in the process of my book whatever topic I decided it to be what did I want it to do to the reader that was gonna read it? And, ultimately, what I wanted to do is I wanted them to make a change at some point in their life or to end the book to enable them to be living a better life or open avenues to maybe living a better life to what they were doing right now Because that was a lot of my work Previously was doing a lot of mindset work. I've done a lot of mindset work on myself.
Speaker 1:So when I talk about the mind monkeys and the demons, it's because I'm looking, spot them a mile off and I knew they were holding me back and my recovering perfectionism. And that's when I decided I'm gonna write the book on world schooling and traveling full time, because that is something I'm living. I am living this life. I've made a lot of mistakes. I've also made some great decisions. I've learned so much and to the person who is sitting somewhere in the world thinking about how on earth could I take my kids on a travel adventure I'm feeling completely overwhelmed by it I wanted to say this is how you can do it. I've put it all in a book, cause I tell you something, I wished the goodness had been a book when I started planning it all and looking into it, because it was a complete minefield to start off with until I started getting in the swing of it, I really wished there'd been a book. I could just go to tell me what I need to do and I'll do it. And so that's when, once, I decided I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1:Because people ask me questions all the time how do you do it? How do you decide where to go? How do you know how to educate on the road? How do you earn on the road? How do you pay for it all? How do you fund it all? How do you worry about visas? How do you do about safety? How do you cook when, like, you're in all these different places and you can't get all the food stuff? How do you do the transport? How do you do it on a budget? You know so many different questions I get asked all of the time and they're really valid questions. Every single one of them is a valid question. And then I was like I can answer those questions, like I really can answer those questions and I can create a guide to do that and I can tick my box that says I've written a book. I can leave a legacy for my kids and my family to say well, what's the point of time? And you know your mom, your grandma, your great grandma, your auntie, twice for me she wrote a book. That's her book.
Speaker 1:But ultimately, what I can do is I can impact another living person and maybe many families. I can impact somebody through my experience and by taking the time to put it into a book. It could change the trajectory of somebody else's life for the better, and that maybe they might be living a miserable life or maybe they might be living a nice life, but maybe they're like me and they're craving an extraordinary life and they're craving to travel, but they're sitting there thinking I can't do that or I can't afford to do that, or it's not possible for me because of my family dynamic and setup. And it's always gonna be a dream and what I wanna do is it bust that and say let's stop calling it a dream, let's call it a goal that can be achieved and a goal with a deadline. Okay, we're just taking a little break for me, talking all about things books and legacies and travel and all of that, because, yeah, I do actually wanna tell you how to buy my book. Please just bear with me on this episode, because I am a little bit excited, I am a little bit proud and I am just kind of like made up. Am I allowed to blow that amount of sunshine on my mom today? Please just bear with me today. Well, I just have my little moment in achieving something I always wanted to achieve but thought maybe I might not. But I did, and so if it is remotely of interest to you to buy the book or see what it's all about, you can get all the information at wwwlifeinacancom forward slash book. Thank you for just letting me have my moment. And so once I kind of realized what it was I was gonna write about, I got my arse in gear, and that's why I want you to sit and think about for a moment.
Speaker 1:What could you write about? Could you write about experiences in your life? Could you write about learnings that you've had in your life? How could you help somebody with? Could you just write a story? Are you actually secretly really creative in story writing? Are you actually able to write a story Secretly really creative in story writing? And there have to be a non-fiction. But could you write stories? Could you write children's stories? There is a book. I really really believe there's a book inside everybody and you know the people that I work with in the publishing kind of world through doing this are very much. There's a book inside everybody and I've already got the kids or not race so much but Lani Lani's already in the mode of writing books. She's looking at writing some children's stories and she's already working on it right now and so, like, just in the process of writing this book, I've already inspired my daughter to start writing. So that was worth it all. That was worth it all just to do that. So once I was like red rag to a ball. It was like the actual logistics of getting it, getting it all done and that was quite hard and but I'm really I was very, very lucky last year that some angels came into our world in November. The Book of Deadline for the first draft was the 9th of November. It's carved into my head.
Speaker 1:I was really struggling last year, really struggling with juggling time, changes to the business, launching global trailblazing and any other thing. Any of you mums out there. Oh, my God, the menopause started making an appearance and I didn't realize it was the menopause to start off with. So I just started started about February right, when I started having little snippets of getting a bit hot and I just buried my head in the sand because it wasn't a big deal, it wasn't like anything major at all, it wasn't anything major. But I did start to get a little bit. What is this?
Speaker 1:And then as the summer started going on, I realized that it kind of went off for a bit. And then, as the summer started coming along, I was in Turkey and in Bulgaria and it was absolutely roasting. Just actually grabbing someone out my bag here, if you want. Yeah, I'm just not in stuff down there you go. You know, hashtag keeping it real. Let's make sure we always know Nikki is keeping it real.
Speaker 1:And then we got to the summer and it was absolutely roasting over here of like 50 degrees. We registered on the car at one point. So then I'm sweating and then I don't know, am I sweating because I've got flipping menopause or my sweating just because it's been hot? And then, gradually, as we started to go into like October time, I was like, oh my God, I don't feel right at all. I was getting like little palpitations. I felt exhausted, my head was pounding, my body was going to explode and I felt like like I'm a bit of an alpha female type person. I don't know if you've worked that out yet. I'm kind of like on it right and I pride myself on being on it. I'm a Virgo on it, I'm telling you. I was not on it.
Speaker 1:I was wading through Tricol in October and I was like I can't function. I've got this big deadline, now it's the 9th of November and I just cannot even function. So while I was in Turkey I went and saw a doctor who said yes, nikki, this is the big M and here's some patches and stuff, but you need to be careful because you might get some side effects. Now I've got history of having side effects with synthetic hormones and stuff. So then I had to make the decision, because then I had two weeks to like really nail this book. What if I then get like some kind of adverse reaction to this stuff? That's just going to mess it up even more, and I had to make the decision. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. So I kind of didn't start any of this HRT stuff until a couple of days after the 9th.
Speaker 1:So the whole lead up to writing the book was filled with me feeling like utter shite. But these little angels in Turkey, they lent us a their villa in Turkey and I cannot explain to you how much it meant to me that Jay and Tim who literally are the reason why this book is even written Allowed us to park Susie Caravan right next to their villa, actually allowed us to use their villa and their villa's amazing. But I said like no, I have kids and your villa's amazing, but we will use the washing machine and the shower. And can I use one of the bedrooms to hold myself up in to write the book? So in the end I suddenly got this amazing two week window where we parked up solely for me to write the book and I hot, flushed and sweated and palpitated my way through bringing the first draft and I will forever ever be grateful for that.
Speaker 1:So what I wanna do is I wanna just read. I wanna read a little bit from the book and I'm gonna read you one of our little anecdote stories. So within the book is all the complete how to of doing this whole world, schooling and full time travel and lots of snippets of 11 different families. So we've got people in there that are traveling with a single parents, people who are traveling with just one child, with teenagers, children with additional needs, people that are traveling in an RV, people that are traveling on sailing boats and everything, so like you can see just how amazing it is. But I did also wanna put some little bits on this. I'm gonna read you this little bit to do with Romania. I really love Romania and I'm only picking it because I just opened it up and it's the first page I came to, so let's just go with it. Let's just play with Romania. The title you'll never see any bears.
Speaker 1:I'd last been to Romania some 25 years ago when I did some aid work there in the orphanages and local communities. I'd loved the beauty of the country and hoped one day I would go back. We were extremely fortunate to meet an incredible Romanian family through Lani's online school. Their daughter was in the same online classes. Lani and we had become great friends. They had visitors us in Bulgaria, so the girls had actually met in person, which was amazing, and we'd had the best time, and not long after their visit, they kindly offered us an opportunity to house it a family member's cottage in a village in central Romania, right near Transylvania, and there was space to take Susie Caravan too. We jumped at the opportunity and headed off for a summer of fun in Romania. Now we knew that Romania had brown bears, but we did not know that Romania is home to 60% of Europe's brown bears, and we mentioned this to a few people in Romania and we're told that there were indeed many bears, but we would be unlikely to see them because they hide up in the mountains and are very fearful of people. We were a bit sad, but accepted this as our reality and got on with exploring Romania for the three months we were going to be there.
Speaker 1:One day we were driving back to Romania driving back from Brasov which, aside, is a really beautiful place to the cottage, and suddenly we saw a brown bear in the field and watched it race into some sweet corn crops. The kids missed it all, but Ian and I felt well-chuffed. We had indeed seen a brown bear with our own eyes. So now we were like check, we found a brown bear, we've done it, we've seen a brown bear. And a few weeks later we were driving the Trans Fagarasan Highway. Probably totally said that one. If you were ever driving in Romania, by the way, you must do that.
Speaker 1:And we were out for the whole day and exploring a big loop from our cottage and suddenly an alarm went off on our phones, declaring a warning of bears. I won't lie. Far from being scared, we were excited. We carried on driving and then suddenly the car in front of us slowed right down and we saw why On the side of the road, just sitting, there was a mum and two bear cubs just minding their own business and hanging out. We all held our breaths as we slowly passed them, literally inches from our van, and marveled at the beauty of these lovely creatures. Now we felt we'd hit the bear jackpot. We carried on driving for another hour or so and we were about to go around this bend up into the Transylvanian Mountains when I suddenly saw him on the left-hand side of the bend. The biggest brown bear I could have ever imagined just sat there looking like a giant teddy bear on the side of the road, but looking at us as we quietly passed him by. There was no one else around, so we drove so slowly and I have to admit to opening the window so I could get a quick photo. I was holding my breath the whole time. He was magnificent and as we drove away we all looked at each other in awe. Had we really just seen him?
Speaker 1:A few days before we left Romania, we took a drive to one of the crater lakes. It was a really miserable day, but we try and pride ourselves on not being fair weather explorers. So off we went with our raincoats. It turned out that you had to park three kilometers from the lake itself and walk down the hill to the crater lake. So off we set. We found the lake, had an explore and we're now heading back up the hill back to the car where hot chocolate and our pat lunch are waited. We were soaked and the kids were moaning about having to walk all the way up the hill. You know the ones.
Speaker 1:There were a couple of people walking up the hill in front of us who suddenly stopped. We didn't take much notice and just continued walking towards them, but once we reached them we could see why they had stopped. A mama bear was about to come out of the trees to the left with her cub. We all froze. There was no vehicle to protect us. This time we told the kids to just stand still and keep quiet. Mama Bear crossed the road in front of us with her precious cub, very much keeping an eye on us. She walked about 15 feet into the trees on the right hand side of the road and then stopped. We were still holding our breaths, too afraid to move. We watched as she went right back up on her back leg, staring straight at us, checking us out to see our next move. My heart was beating so much because here was I wanting to protect my own cubs as she was making sure her cub was safe, she dropped back down onto four legs and disappeared into the woods and we never saw her again.
Speaker 1:The walk up the hill was so long and hard work, as the kids were saying, and taking forever that walk it didn't seem so boring after all. We continue now to feel so very lucky that, in accepting that we would not see any bears during our time in Romania, we actually saw seven, and it was a lucky number. Seven for us indeed, and that's our little trip to Romania. That's one of the things. There was loads of stuff in Romania, but that's one of the little stories that I share in a whole 316 pages of stuff. So, yeah, that's a little bit to do with the book and stuff like that, and because the book only came out yesterday, we're still very early days and I'm really hoping that by the time you listen to this, at some point I would love to be able to say it's an Amazon bestseller. Let's see, let's see what happens. But anyway, I wanted to share that journey with you because you're part of my world. The book is part of my world.
Speaker 1:One of the reasons why the podcast was on the back burner for such a long time I desperately wanted to launch Wet Wipes and Wine is because I kept going. You can't launch it until you've actually got the book done, and that's why, once the book was in and being formatted and everything with the publisher, I was like right, come on, come on, lady, there's a window, get this podcast out. So I'm so happy to be here now, being able to talk to you guys on the podcast and being able to share that the book is out there Now. What I just want you to take from this is, obviously, I just kind of wanted to share. I just wanted to share it because you know what Is there a bloody point? Why in a book, if you don't tell anyone about it, is it, like you know, is otherwise that kind of defeats.
Speaker 1:The object but ultimately is to inspire you. One, if you're interested in world schooling and family travel, is you know, there is a book. But ultimately, if you're just a parent, you might have no interest whatsoever in the life that I lead, but you are a parent like me, so we have lots of, you know, shared journeys. As, just as a parent is to think about, could you write a book, what would, what could your legacy be? Maybe it could just be a series of children's books, or maybe it could be a novel, or two or three that maybe gets picked up.
Speaker 1:I mean, come on, let's be honest, 50 Shades of Grey, it's a shit book If you've never read it. Really shit. All three of them. Of course I've read them. Of course I jumped on the bandwagon when everyone was reading it. Of course I was, you know, the mofo of missing, fear, of missing out and all of that. All of that. I really I had complete and utter FOMO when it came to 50 Shades of Grey. So, yes, I did read them.
Speaker 1:They are absolutely awfully written. They are so unrealistic. I mean it's just not possible to have that much sex. It's just not possible to just have that many orgasms. And it's just not possible to have that much sex and not have some kind of UTI. It's just not possible. The whole thing is completely unrealistic. But that person who wrote those shit books I mean she's minted now. They got made into movies. For goodness sake, you do not have to be Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or anyone like that to write a book.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if anything I want you to take from here is just to ask yourself, what could you write a book about and what kind of little legacy could you leave people around you that perhaps is in a book? Or perhaps what could you write about that could inspire somebody else or teach somebody else? Because there is a book in every single one of us and I am really great and happy now that I can tick that one off the list. Now I am going to say there's another book in me, but I need to recover from this one because it's been quite intensive. But in the future I understand the process a lot more. So another time there may be another book in me, but for now I'm just going to enjoy this one and the relief that I feel that, finally, is out All right.
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