In our discussion this
week, we introduced ourselves without mentioning the 'c-word' and discovered
how extraordinary we all are:
We are home-birds,
adventurers and adrenalin-junkies; we are cloud-spotters and star-gazers; we
love nature - the ‘peace of wild things’, still waters and forests, some of us
are drawn to the sea, others to the mountains. Some of us are larks, up to watch
the sun rise, while others are night-owls and love the moon.
We hate unfairness. We
believe in values, of truth, honesty and kindness. We are passionate, loyal and
stubborn; fierce and fiery, calm and tranquil. We laugh.
Some of us are workaholics,
entrepreneurs, business women, others, for many reasons, have taken a step-back
from their careers, or are retired. We are volunteers and public speakers,
writers, poets, artists, photographers. Some of us are bosses. We work in all
fields. We study, we teach, we mentor and we fundraise. We care. We would move
mountains to make the people we love happy and see their smiles.
Some of us like coffee,
others enjoy drinking earl grey in a bone china cup or freshly made masala tea.
We love prosecco, red wine, beer, champagne, and - all but a few of us - like
chocolate, ice-cream, stout, clean sheets, the sound of birds singing, our
children or grandchildren laughing, the thrill of visiting new countries, the
anticipation of the curtain call or our favourite band coming on to take centre
stage.
Our interests include
amateur dramatics, baking, ballet, crochet, cycling, dancing, drama, DIY,
dragon-boating, glass-making, garden gnomes, jewellery-making, knitting, music
and musicals, painting, Pilates, playing musical instruments, reading, sailing,
singing, scuba-diving, sky-diving, skiing, Reiki, Tai-chi, tennis, theatre,
trekking, walking, yoga.
We have crushes on Keanu
Reeves, Tom Hardy, George Clooney and Idris Elba.
We are animal-lovers and
treasure our beloved pets, our dogs, cats, rabbits, horses and sheep who give
us so much joy.
We laugh at Car Share and
the Task Master. We hide behind our cushions while watching Scandinavian dramas
and get swept away by the lives of the characters in Home and Away and Poldark.
We enjoy Harry Potter and
Glastonbury and Wimbledon Tennis. We run marathons, climb Ben Nevis and Snowdon
and participate in endurance races.
We are travellers with
pilgrim souls. We have visited the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall of China,
Antarctica, Australia, America, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Iceland, India, Morocco, Mexico, Tibet and Thailand.
We are daughters, sisters,
wives, partners, aunties, carers. Many, but not all of us, are mothers, or hope
to be mothers, and some of us are single-parents. We are grandmothers. We are
friends and colleagues. We are all women everywhere.
If you are a woman living in the
UK with a diagnosis of breast cancer and you would like to join our private
group, please contact is by facebook message https://www.facebook.com/resilienceinbreastcancer/
Thank you to the incredible Judy for allowing us to use this amazing picture of her scuba diving. Judy is determined to maximise life on the basis that ‘you never know what’s around the corner’ and has now clocked up around 400 dives!
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