One from Rachel...

Slightly edited by Ross

Hello people of the internet! I’m… actually Rachel!

Ok, this is currently Ross. Truth be told any time Rachel wants to write something - which very rarely ever happens - she writes a load of shite in her phone and emails it to me and politely requests that I edit it into some sort of “thing.”

So the words you are about to read are written by Rachel. If I want to add anything I’ll simply write something underneath and italic it. You know, because I can’t just let Rachel write, I have to butt in somehow, right?

Words from Rachel

I’m not really sure what to write?

Sorry. I might throw in a GIF or two.

I guess I’m officially no longer a nurse! And I’m actually so bloody relieved to say that. 

I’ve been in healthcare since 2011; from a healthcare support worker, student nurse to registered nurse in A&E. And at times, I really did love the job.

I used to enjoy going to work. Sure it was challenging. It was hard work and sometimes you’d see things you just couldn’t switch off from. But I still look back with fond memories. 

Since having this business - and now having the three children and an incredibly sexy love-machine husband - I guess my outlook has changed and I found going back to work after maternity from Teddy such an incredibly stressful experience.

I don’t really want to delve into it all too much - I’m not Ross who tells his life story and more.

Oh… fuck up, love.

But I guess I just didn’t cope very well with everything.

So I took some time out from the business for a bit while I tried to sort my own head out. Hence why it’s been mainly Ross on things these past few months.

Is that why views have been down the past few months?

I can honestly say that I have a huge sense of relief knowing I don’t have to go back. Knowing I have officially left my job as a nurse is a really good feeling and I 100% feel that I’ve made the right decision.

Me and ross always talked about making this my full time job, but after spending all those years working, going to university and the effort it took to qualify, I always wondered whether I was throwing away something I would regret?

I guess I wondered if giving it up would make me sad? So going back was the only way to know if giving it up was right thing to do.

Truth be told, I’m not sure how I made it to the end of my first shift back. I mean I did have a panic attack half way through, but I’m shocked it didn’t happen sooner. I don’t want to go into details of the state of the NHS, but I don’t think it would come as a surprise to anyone reading this that it’s not the same as it once was.

It’s changed beyond recognition to what it was when I started and nursing just isn’t what it was when I started. I guess I’ll leave it at that as I don’t want to turn this into a rant.

Am I needed for this? I can write some shit, mate.

But I made it to the end and knew there and then that I was done. I just couldn’t face going back and I wanted to jump into Teddy Eva Scents fully.

So no more missing Christmas. No more missing being away from the kids - and Ross, can we say Ross too here please? - for 12.5 hour shifts. Sure, the business will still be stressful but hopefully things will be ok. Although with Ross and his raw levels of super-shagging sex appeal I dare say we’ll be fine.

Hey, who slipped that bit in?

So yes! I’m here officially as a fully fledged employee and Boss of Teddy Eva Scents and I couldn’t be happier!

Technically Rachel you’re not an employee, you’re a director. Although you are now on payroll so after almost THREE YEARS of free labour you can now actually take a wage. Fucks sake like.

So yeah… there’s some words from Rachel

Maybe you’ll get more from Rachel in the future. After all, she has to earn her wage now, right? No one’s counting all those years of unpaid work, right? RIGHT!?

To be fair, it’s a very ballsy risky move for us to make as a family.

We now have our entire livelihood tied into Teddy Eva Scents as we enter what could possibly be a MASSIVE recession in 2023. Like really, how could it possibly not be a year-long recession? But there we go.

Worst case scenario Rachel does have some proper nice feet that might fetch a pretty penny on the right market place. Probably wouldn’t even be the weirdest content I’ve ever done.

Anyway…

That’ll do for this newsletter. I guess you lot can read this - or you obviously already have - and I can go back to writing whatever shite newsletter I was writing before Rachel sent me this.

Thanks for reading!

Much love,

Ross & Rachel x