In 2013, I challenged myself to run the 5k Race For Life, whilst I was battling Cancer. At the time, I hadn’t ran in about ten years. I achieved my run, in forty degree sunshine, in 42 minutes and felt very pleased with that. I also raised over £1300 for Cancer Research UK. In 2014, […]
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Bunny passed level 4 gymnastics
Two years ago, to the month, Bunny started doing acrobatic gymnastics as a hobby. One hour every Saturday. She loved it from the very first day. Two years on, she is about to take part in her third Christmas show with the club. She now does gym for 2.5 hours per week and has […]
A sports day without tears?
Bunny has just finished year two of primary school and as per school tradition, sports day came near to the end of term. We are not a particularly sporty family. Wait, what am I saying? We do NO SPORT AT ALL! I played rugby back in my school days, until I broke my left wrist […]
Paralympics – Explaining Disability to a 5 year old
If you’ve read my post about our families Olympics obsession, Olympic Fever and our trip to London 2012 to see the Olympic Swimming Marathon, you’ll know how we’ve gone from being non-sport watchers, to heavily supporting Team GB and loving every second of the tv footage. So it was no surprise that today, with the start […]
Olympic Oblivion to Olympics Obsession
I have never been a fan of watching sport and I’ve never been a particularly sporty person either. Other than the odd World Cup football match featuring England and little bit of Formula One Grand Prix every few years, the only sport I’ve ever watched on tv, is horse racing. I’m actually quite into horse […]