miscellaneous stuff
a life without limits
when I’m not doing sport, I like to read about sport. That’s just the kinda total sports geek kool kat I am. However, I’m not always that keen on reading autobiographies of famous sports people. That’s because I used to really like Lance Armstrong, but then I read Its Not About the Bike: My Journey […]
one element
in January (of all the sensible months) my friend Sarah asked me if I fancied playing social touch rugby down on Wandsworth Common. I absolutely jumped at the chance because I used to play in Cayman and loved it (even though I’m shockingly bad at it!), so we tootled off on a freezing wet day […]
olympics olympics olympics!!
as you can imagine, I am loving loving loving the Great British Summer of Sport! Initially I wasn’t that bothered about the Olympics really – not because I wasn’t interested but it always seemed so far away. But then it crept right up on me … and I had no tickets to anything. Gutted. Until, that is, I […]
I’m so sorry, who are you?
Hello! Helllooooooooo! Yes, it’s me again, I am so sorry about the two-month radio silence. I’d love to say it’s because I haven’t been up to much and have therefore had nothing to blog about, but actually the exact opposite is true! I’ve been to pole-camp in Budapest, had a totally manic few weeks at […]
happy pole-dancing day!
It’s National Pole Dancing Day! That’s right! National POLE-DANCING DAY! It’s so so nice that we have such a thing now, because when I started pole dancing all the way back in 2003, it was practically unheard of. In fact, before the first time I did it, I’d never heard of it! However in September 2003, […]
oo oo oo … go ape!
my friend Claire (who is the gorgeous person in pink featured in the pictures below), who is so beautifully full of fabulous ideas, turned 26 yesterday. As well as going for drinks in the usual fashion, she also organised a day at … Go Ape! Uh-huh! Obviously not all of her friends decided to come […]
I’d … I’d … I’d like to thank …
the exceptionally wonderful DawnInWonderland for my award! I am so overwhelmed I almost shed a tear (think Anna Paquin, Oscars 1993). Honestly, it’s totally made my Friday! And if there were one person I could’ve picked to nominate me it would be the lovely Dawn, whom I’ve never met but whose blog I absolutely adore. […]
time-turning
I quite often seem to find myself explaining to people that really, I do manage to fit in quite a lot of gym time. Honest. I’m not even lying. Whenever the gym (or working-out in general) pops into conversation, I love watching people look shifty and (and this is almost invariable) mumble rapidly “Er well, […]
hypoxi and the vacunaut
nope, it’s not the new version of beauty and the beast (though the plan is that it helps the beast turn into the beauty) – it’s the latest craze in easy weight loss. Whilst I’ve always been relatively skeptical of gimmicks to lose weight easily (if it were that easy, surely we’d all be doing it), I’ve […]
holidays health and happiness
Who says holidays and health don’t mix? In February, I attended a family reunion in New Zealand. Now this meant the extended family – me, my two sisters, mom and dad, brother-in-law and four AFS kids who lived with my family for various lengths of time. That’s a lot of people. In order that […]
