Jubilee Sailing Trust: Sponsored Mast Climb

The Jubilee Sailing Trust are holding a Sponsored Mast Climb in West India Dock in London on the 23rd of September 2007.
The above is a view from part of the way up, so the view from the very top seems a little higher than this!

If you would be interested in taking part in this event, then please email me for more details and I can forward the relevant forms.

Each climber must raise a minimum of £250, and the climber which raises the most money can win a free trip on the ship!

Pictures of me

My chum at the sailing charity has just sent me my volunteer polo shirt and badge. And she enclosed a picshure wot she drawed.

I'll let you pass your own judgement.


I hope that isn't my hair. (Nice to have skinny legs for a change though!)

Sat on their park bench like book ends

Some people you have known almost for ever. Way back when you were the back two desks of second violins in a youth orchestra.

And you don't speak to for years on end, but when you do; it's just like yesterday.

So, Andy - hopefully you've found this in order to email me. It was really nice to start catching up. I've not been aware of missing you, but when I speak to you again I realise that I have.

The Transatlantic

Well, I've booked it.

And now I look it seems like a REALLY long way!

(Thanks to Google Earth for showing me just how far it is.)

So, if anyone needs me next April I'll have run away to sea...

A Voyage on Tenacious

We went, we sailed, we got wet and cold, and we absolutely loved it!

Thanks to everyone on the Forward Port watch - you made it so easy for me.

Feed me 'til I want no more!

We've had a dreadful six-nations championship. Right up until today, and even then we tried very hard to give it back to England for a while.

But we WON! 27-18 will go down in history at home. We do love a bit of a win and especially against the old enemy....

Dydd Dewi Sant

Happy St David's Day!

You can find more information about St David here.

New Year's Eve at the Seaside

My view of these wasn't quite so good (New Year's Eve was much more cloudy and windy that this). Exhilarating still though!

(Speedymax takes fab photo's! - Thank you)

Ice skating at the Tower of London

I'm kinda part of another family apart from my own. It's really very lovely.

Our Christmas day out this year was to go and visit the Tower of London, followed by Ice Skating in the moat of the tower.

(thanks to Dave for taking this excellent photo)

The Ravenglass Railway, Cumbria

I recently visited the Lake District for a holiday, and went on a steam train for the very first time. It was a very wee train (and I got soot in my eye at one point too!)

But, it was very pretty and a lovely experience. I'd recommend it.

Heritage Weekend

It was just Heritage Weekend. I didn't realise until it was almost over, but I did manage to visit one site in Woking which I hadn't previously seen.

I went to the Shah Jahan Mosque, which I have now learnt was the first purpose-built mosque in the UK.

It's very small, and is sometimes not big enough for prayers as it only holds 60 people.

But it's a beautiful building, and the Imam (by the name of Mufti) was incredibly helpful in explaining not just the history of the building but also some information regarding the basic principles of Islam.

There is restoration work going on at present, so we weren't able to see inside the mosque, but I fully intend to make an appointment and go back again to see it in more detail.

Sailing through the sky

This cloud was in the sky over my house this evening. It just reminded of good times.....

The Wedding

They did it! Mr and Mrs Thomas have now left the country, and are honeymooning their socks off in more exotic climes.

Porto Pollensa

Sunset over the mountains in Porto Pollensa.

Fat Face Socks

Everyone who knows me know that I have a small obsession about socks from Fat Face.

So, these are one of the oldest pairs I have, and also one of the best-loved pairs.



The colour hasn't come out so well on this picture - they actually look like choc-mint-chip.

Uffingham White Horse

This is White Horse Hill near Uffingham.
Click here to see other photos from the surrounding area.

Witney

This is a picture of the Butter Cross in Witney. Historically this is the place where the hosuewives used to market the butter they had churned. Sounds like a typical welsh village, where people survive by taking in each other's washing.

Happy birthday to me....

This is Axel. He was a birthday present, and he's just too cute, too cuddly, too soft not to share his picture on the web.

Bless 'im...

Well, he has 'Axel' embroidered on his bum, but I'm very partial to call him George instead. He looks like a George.

(BTW: I'm still in my early thirties - I'm not listening to ANYONE who tells me that I'm now in my late thirties - especially when they aren't in their thirties at all!)

So my parents came for Christmas

I love them dearly - but do you know? This wasn't exactly how I had envisaged Christmas Day, but Dad's will be Dad's, and will always want to look after their daughters....

Mum managed to relax some more I think. She even let me cook all of the Christmas dinner, and then wrote me the most lovely letter after that telling me how much she's enjoyed both the dinner and the rest.

Mousehole, Cornwall

At last - a holiday! A week away, in one of the smallest cottages in the world.

Mousehole is a tiny village, in which most of the roads are not wide enough to drive along. If two people chose to drive through the village at the same time then that's gridlock.