Dear Grandad, How odd it feels to be writing to you here, writing words that you will never read, but maybe you will receive them somehow, who knows what happens when we leave this earth. I don’t yet know if these words will make a blog or not, in part it feels...
Time for a little blog recycling! I wrote this blog just over 4 years ago about my fellow leg 5 watch mates as we sailed from Brisbane to Singapore on the Clipper Round the World Race. As my partner, Mark is currently sailing on the race, and I am also working for...
When you’ve got an important goal to work on it can sometimes be the hardest thing to get stuck into. Ditto for a boring task. As I’ve completed the delicious slide from full time work to full time working from home (currently freelancing and on my...
Introducing Jess! This revolution is inspired by one of my favourite people, Jess. We first got to know each other properly whilst taking drama for GCSE. Not being natural actors or performers we used to sit in the ‘safe corner’ of the drama room (backs to...
When I saw that Judith Morgan was doing a blogfest I jumped at the opportunity to be one of the 52 bloggers involved. First up anything that ends with fest is normally good fun! I am a fan of Judith’s work and with ‘guest blogging’ on my to-do list...
How were you feeling as the clock ticked over at midnight on the 31st of December and a new year begun? Excited about all the wonderful stuff planned for 2018? Hopeful of what was to come? Drunk? Sleepy? Indifferent? How about as you first wrote the date 2018 on a new...
From the archives! I originally wrote this post two years ago in January 2016. Two years on and it provides a great opportunity to look back and reflect on my progress. I will be blogging about this soon so here’s the original to provide a line in the sand of...
I originally wrote this blog 2 years ago, reflecting on my bungy jumping experience 14 years before that! Reflecting back now it’s amazing to see how far I have come in two years. When choosing the title for this blog post all that time (& not so long) ago...
My love affair with vans began one Easter uni holidays at Barnstaple train station carpark! After a long wait, my friends finally arrived in Paul’s van to pick me up and so a week of surfing and trips out in the van followed. I was hooked! Through the uni years,...
