Name Change.

Hello all. 

I've made a decision to change the name of my blog and like all good decisions it was decided when spending the evening in the pub.

The blog has changed from 'Precious Hearts' to 'Cow Heart Girl' basically because one of my friends compared me to the book/ television show 'Pig Heart Boy' to which I replied 'it's actually Cow Heart Girl'. It's a simple as that! 

Well not quite, said friend* told me that I should rename my blog that and I have for a while been thinking to myself 'I wish I'd named my blog something else'. Partly because although I'm good at spelling, the word 'precious' always catches me out and I always think there should be an extra 's' in it. Also, it wasn't really very catchy and the address was a bit too long, this is short and snappy and I like it. The whole blog was started quite suddenly and I had to think quickly to put it all together, so I think a bit of a revamp is necessary, name, address, background etc.

Not a great deal has happened to do with my heart but it did get me a dedication of one of my favourite band's songs as they performed live last night at the Shrewsbury Flower Show. For my 21st birthday my Mum had written to some of my favourite bands/ singers and Equestrian riders and told them about my upcoming surgery and how she was planning to collate signed photos from said people as a special surprise for my birthday. 

We had been hoping to go to the Flower Show to see them perform but didn't buy tickets until a few days ago, as it was so soon after my surgery I didn't know if I'd be well enough. Since I've recovered so well we decided to definitely go, I thought I'd email them and thank them for the photo and let them know that 16 days later I would be seeing them live. Having only decided to do this the day before the show and having had no response to the email I was very very shocked to hear the lead singer say 'This song is dedicated to Beth Bason'. I screamed and because I was only in the second row of the crowd and stood almost directly in front of him I put my hand up and he saw me and said 'oh she's just down here' and smiled at me. He also smiled and gave me a thumbs up at the end of the song and later on when we were all really dancing and jumping up and down I saw him look across and try and find me and see if I was jumping up and down too and he grinned when he saw I was. He didn't tell people why the song was dedicated to me but they knew and I knew and it really was special.

I was lucky enough to meet one of them (there are 11 in total!) who plays the banjo and mandolin, he's called Benji and was hanging around back stage which you could get to as there was a road running right behind the stage. I thanked him for the dedication and he replied 'Oh was that you? You look great' and we chatted and he said that I was looking really well and hoped I continued to recover well. All in all it was really special and this wouldn't have happened if I hadn't gone through this surgery. Sometimes it pays to have a slightly broken heart! 

For those who are wondering, the band are Bellowhead, which you may or may not have heard of. They are a lively folk band who sing all sorts of traditional songs but they are absolutely incredible. There are 11 members of the band and between them must play about 30 different instruments. Their live show is just fantastic and Chris Evans announced on his Radio 2 show on Friday that they were 'the best band I have ever seen perform live, better than The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and other great rock bands' (for my American friends who read this Chris Evans is a Television Presenter and Radio DJ and his breakfast show on Radio 2 is the most listened to Breakfast Radio Show in the country, he knows his stuff!). There are links to a couple of my favourites by them here and here. If I ever work out how to do it, I'll upload the video I took at the gig last night.

If any of you are interested, I am about to write a whole post on the Shrewsbury Flower Show, which you can see on my other blog here.

So from now on, my Cow Heart Girl blog will proceed with the address 'cowheartgirl.blogspot.co.uk' and I am about to update the background and have just changed my Twitter handle to @CowHeartGirl. I guess it's all been a case of new beginnings since the op and this is also having said makeover.

*Hello Nancia!