No, I’m not a zombie, although I do feel like one sometimes with the early-morning baking.

Back in July 2018 at a gloriously sunny networking lunch I realised that this was the year that I could finally take part in a YMCA Burton #sleepout. 

And I didn’t stop there. If I was going to spend the night in a cardboard box to support the homeless, then I wanted to the experience to be as close as it could be to the real thing. No halfway measures here - I decided I had to go #xtreme. Which means, if you’ve not heard of #sleepout before, sleeping in a graveyard in the centre of Burton. 

Thankfully some friends at the meeting also decided to join me. Phew!