The past week has seen me up and out at 6.40am on four mornings, ready to take on the challenge of an early morning class in the gym. It has been my first week back in 10 months! This has been partly due to a bit of nervousness- it’s true, the longer you leave something […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
I wake up some mornings and look, sleepy eyed into the bathroom mirror and think ‘What happened?’. You see it all looks such a mess – the hair, the face, not just bed crumpled, but full of longer term creases. However I feel inside, the outside picture is that of a 63 year old woman […]
The link below will take you to a final and complete PDF version of ‘Secrets’ Secrets Behind The Collar
‘Here we go!’ my class hears me shout, time and time again during a POUND session: it generally means we are about to launch into a move at twice the speed we’ve just been doing it! It’s a bit like going from a gentle walk to a sprint! It is the part of Pound that […]
‘I alone know the plans I have for you…plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’ These words from the Old Testament, from Jeremiah 29 have spoken to me for many years. Sometimes we find it difficult to understand what’s going on in our lives and […]
Last year, I decided to write my story, to share the events which have shaped me and made me the person I am today. My experiences of childhood trauma, of sexual assault and sustained sexual and emotional abuse are written here in full. You can read my life story by scrolling back through these pages. […]
So, I’ve had two weeks off any sort of exercise at all. I know, that is so unlike me! It has been partly due to being shattered at the end of the Festival season in addition to running the parish and trying to catch up on occasional offices – Baptisms and Burials of Ashes, on […]
As I write, our late summer break is drawing to a close. Mick and I have spent the past few days at our son’s home in South Devon. It has been a lovely opportunity to slow down, reflect and recharge our batteries before we embark on the busy times ahead of us. As always, the […]