Making Plans

Our Claire is making plans… Last week I wrote about my friend, San, who had died. According to her wife, Clare, San wanted people to go dip their toes in the sea. So, last Sunday, my friend Ali and I arranged to go down to the beach and do just that. After a...

Wild and Free

Our Claire is grieving… My friend Sandra (San) died yesterday. She was one of the first people I met when I moved into the area and brought so much good into my life. I was far from alone in that. She was someone who dedicated her life to helping others. She...

Shake Those Hips

Our Claire is getting strict… The line-up for Strictly Come Dancing has been making headlines in the last week with the announcement of the first male same-sex pairing. This follows the first female same-sex pairing of Nicola Adams and Katya Jones last year....

Break On Through

Our Claire has been watching the Olympics again… Olympian Tom Daley made the headlines twice last week: Once for winning a gold medal and once for knitting. There’s nothing unusual about knitting. So the reason why it was newsworthy was because it was a...

Living The Dream

Our Claire has been getting energetic… The Olympics has dominated the news this week and Team GB are doing particularly well with the best medal haul we’ve had since 1908. We even had an Olympic themed session when I went to my running group on Tuesday....

Caution: Freedom Ahead

Our Claire is proceeding with caution… When I was learning to drive, my instructor was quizzing me on the Highway Code one day… “What do you do when you see a red light?”, he asked. “I stop”, I replied. “And what do you do...