She did it!!!
  Katie has been trying to land her Double Salchow for months.   She did land one a few weeks back,  but then we have never seen it again since,  and she had convinced herself that she couldn’t do it. She wasn’t feeling particulary confident tonight,  but something must have clicked because she did it!  and not just once,  but over and over again. In fact,  once she’d done it,  she couldn’t miss. The video is pretty grainy because I only had my mobile on me,  but it was Â

Back in the saddle again.
There was a time when I was an obsessed scrapbooker. Thinking about scrapbooking most of the time, and taking every opportunity to create layouts in the evenings. I spent many hours sitting with my meagre supplies creating pages which look very dated now. However, somewhere along the way, I started reading about scrapbooking more, and actually doing much less. Lately, I’ve barely created anything. I’ve been wanting

She’s grown up on the ice

Places I’d like to visit one day
We have been talking about holidays lately,  actually given the choice I’d talk about holidays everyday.  I love to dream about traveling and places to visit.  Generally we return to the same few places over and over,   but one day I want to visit some more exotic places.   Australia I was born in Melbourne,  but we left Australia before I was 2.   I went to some amazing places befo

What to share and what to not.
Shimelle has asked us to think today about how much of our life we want to share online.   It’s an interesting topic,   I am a fairly open book online,  I don’t like to live in fear and tend to believe that as long as you are reasonably sensible it’s no more dangerous posting on a blog or forum than it is to have your photo in the newspaper.    Then again,  I’m not a ‘celebrity blogger’ with 1000s of people following my every word.   I read a couple of celebrity blogs (by which I mean the bloggers have become online celebrities,  not that they are celebrities who blog),   some of these blogs get 1000s of comments and there are 10s o