I’m sure we all have friends hovering on the periphery of our consciousness. Friends who have been important in a particular stage of our life but with whom we may have lost touch. Even so, we think about them often and know that if we were to meet up, we would pick up just where we left off [...]
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On friends
Published April 20th, 2009 in Diving, Friends, Marine biology, cancer and ovarian cancer. 8 CommentsThe Auchenstary Aspirants
Published January 9th, 2009 in Diving, Family, Friends, Islands, Miscellaneous stuff, Out & about and Travel. 6 CommentsI’ve been tagged by Lynne to tell you seven things. I’m not sure there’s much you don’t know about me, as I’ve already dumped a large proportion of my life into these blog pages. However, prompted by some old photographs I came across the other day, here goes (and apologies if you’re heard most of [...]
It is almost a year since a friend of mine, a fellow member of the local triathlon club, died from a brain tumour which she had battled for several years with remarkable good spirit. I found I couldn’t write about this at the time as it was not long since I had started chemotherapy myself [...]
A week or so ago I was on the Menai Straits in Wales inspecting the underside of boulders. As you do. More of that another time, I hope. I came home to find, amongst the usual glut of emails, one telling us that Ken Farrow, a fellow diver and long time friend, had died suddenly, [...]
Relax, it’s the weekend…
Published March 11th, 2008 in Chocolate, Friends, Girls' weekends, Lake District and Out & about. 2 CommentsIt was Monday morning, yesterday now. I woke up knowing exactly where my legs were. As the morning wore on I learned to identify every individual leg muscle. The big ones at the front - the quads. And yes, there were the hamstrings. And the calf muscles, especially the one just above the titanium-reinforced ankle. [...]
In praise of…
Published January 13th, 2008 in Family, Friends, Holidays, In praise of and Out & about. 2 Comments…London buses. With apologies to The Guardian. Lest I become permanently marked as a moaner and ranter, I thought it was time to write something positive. And I always enjoy the “In Praise of…” piece on the Guardian Leader page - an antidote to the ranting and complaining of so much media. I would like to write [...]
I’ve discovered a wonderful support group of friends. You know deep down they’re there all the time and it really doesn’t take much of a crisis for them all to rally round. G and I sat and chatted not long after the cancer was confirmed and decided my hair had to go. Not completely - [...]
Girls’ weekends
Published February 27th, 2007 in Family, Friends, Girls' weekends and Lake District. 1 CommentI’ve just had two girls’ weekends away. Yes, that’s right, two. The first was a trip to Birmingham when I met up with my three sisters. It was our first ever weekend with just us (our mother died a couple of years ago and we’d mostly relied on family gatherings to get together), but certainly not [...]
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