My friend has a thing for castles; I think it has something to do with dungeons, dragons and knights on horses: y’know – boy stuff. But as he’s pretty good at choosing places to go for a day out, I jumped at the chance…
On the run-up to the big day, Ian suggested we visit Yorkshire Sculpture Park; it’s somewhere we’ve toyed with going to a few times before, but somehow we never quite get there. At the end of May it was my birthday and for some…
It was like a well-oiled conveyor belt. One after the other people were fearlessly jumping into the unknown and gracefully swan diving towards the river below. That was until I stepped up – then the conveyor belt quickly ground to a halt. I looked…
Within seconds he was gone and I swear my heart skipped a beat. As he exited the plane I was left with a picture his face – drained of colour and smiling nervously. I remained calm, but all I could think was that my…
My dad is like a walking sat nav, except for the fact that whenever I ask him where a place is, he really does know where it is. Before retiring he worked in sales and spent 35 years travelling the length and breadth of…
As I sit here pondering over events from the last month, I realise just how much my life has changed in the past 5 years. In 2009 Ian and I took a month out to reconnect and basically just be. We hadn’t planned it…
As I looked out across the sea of clouds I realised I was on top of the world. Apart from the warm glowing sun, the sky was devoid of anything. The last of the crowd boarded the train and I watched as it gently…
Ian tells me I have the attention span of a goldfish and in some situations this is true. When choosing a film to watch my first question is, ‘how long is it’? If it happens to be longer than 90 minutes, the question is…
Taking spinning out of the equation, the last time I rode a bike and I mean a real bike, was probably about 16 years ago. I figured out that I could cycle the 16 miles round trip to the gym and save myself some…