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THE NATURE TRAIL / VANCOUVER VS LONDON...

I don’t know if it’s just in my blood or it’s because of where I grew up but I’m just an outdoors person. I love and need to get out. I basically grew up outside and outdoors was more home than indoors. My home was Deep Cove, North Vancouver and as a kid having the mountain, lakes, space and wildlife (also some pretty fucking scary animals) was unbelievable to mess around in, I would be out playing from morning till dark and come home with half the forest in my hair. I always got such an energy from that open space. I was a hugely, annoyingly active kid. My Mom put me in gymnastics from a young age, I think possibly because she thought it would help to wear me out making her life a little easier. Mom and Dad were very different people. My Mom had a very logical, practical idea of what life and career she wanted for me and my Dad was more organic and took a day to day attitude to it. My Dad is where the music came from. He secretly took me to singing lessons as he knew my mom wouldn’t feel like it was a good use of the very little money they had. Mom knew nothing of