Cornwall
To be given an opportunity to actually ‘live’ life-long dreams has a gravity which is overwhelming. Making the initial contact was as challenging in many ways as the goals themselves in that I was uncertain and anxious that I may have finally exceeded the limits of my vision. So having a ‘yes’ to both queries […]
Boxes . . . No matter what the circumstances are, when you find yourself continuously floating between two worlds never being quite being accepted or rejected by either, it can test your resilience, no matter how great your courage. Ultimately it can simply leave you feeling less than whole and at the worst of times […]
Fencing – The Wellington Open 15/05/16 Three years ago this weekend, this would have been my first experience of an open fencing competition. In this case familiarity only breeds greater affection each year and I think this will always be my favourite open being the sentimental soul I am! In 2015 I was equal third […]
Riding at the RDA County Day 2016 It must be 20 plus years since I’ve got up in the morning and put ‘uniform’ on! Tie included! Something weirdly, intensely familiar and yet distant at the same time. Managing to pin my stock tie just to my shirt this time and not make it a permanent […]
British Fencing Senior Nationals 16/04/16 Arriving almost in the dark at the hotel in East London, having navigated my way (without any hiccups so far!) from home, plus all the fencing kit still intact and not got myself lost on the DLR, I wandered round the car park looking for the way in! As it […]
Birmingham International 26/03/2016 First fencing competition of 2016 and it feels like a lifetime since my last (the Welsh in November) and like yesterday at the same time. The venue itself was easy enough to find – and no arguments with doors! Fascinatingly, the sports complex is like a maze over two floors! Unfazed – […]
Cornwall Dance School Christmas Show 13/12/15: Scrooge – a contemporary Christmas Carol (Princess Pavilions Falmouth) From beginning to end, the dance show itself, the process of practise, rehearsal and even ending up waking myself up literally dancing in my sleep, will always be one of my most beautiful and treasured memories. The first dance show […]
Fencing at the Welsh Open 2015 This was another ‘first time’ individual fencing event for me at the suggestion of a few friends during the Bristol Open. Arriving two hours before Foil check-in as a good friend of mine who brought us is fencing in the Epee event, I’m already buzzing and fighting to contain […]
After doing ballet and tap fairly briefly as a child, this year I decided I’d enough of longing to do it properly! Determined to make another memory from a nagging dream, I joined Cornwall School of Dance in early February 2015. Learning both Contemporary dance and Street, in mid- March along with many others from […]
Like fencing, finally getting on a horse was a childhood calling. After being asked initially what my objectives were when arrived for my first lesson by who is now one of my dearest and closest friends, I have to admit I probably unnerved her a little! Happening to mention galloping bare-back across beaches and into […]
