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Generosity of the human spirit
So, it would appear that I’ve not actually written any kind of blog/entry in LJ for about 18 months. Given my last entry though, this felt like an appropriate topic with which to break the drought. It's a bit of a mammoth entry but hopefully worth reading to the end. Thank you in advance if you do.
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For all the bad news that we hear on a daily ( Read more... ) -
A Marathon in Memory
Um, so it looks like I'm running the London Marathon next April ( Read more... ) -
Shana Tova to you all!
Yup, it's that time of year again when we dip apple in honey and wish each other a happy and sweet New Year (Shana Tova is the usual greeting ( Read more... ) -
10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 10 (belatedly)
Day 10: Write a letter to Christopher
Dear Chris,
I think I’m going to start this letter by saying, ‘You’re a genius’. I would probably hate to live even a day in your head, but you’re still a genius. It makes sense to me to tell the story of a piece of music if you’re skating to it, but to the skating world for some reason that was unheard of until ( Read more... ) -
10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 9 (belatedly)
Day 9: Write a letter to Jayne
Dear Jayne,
I’m not really sure where to start with this letter, but one thing that must be said is thank you for putting up with Chris all these years! I don’t know who else could deal with Chris and his crazy mind for so long and so successfully, so thank you. On your own you’re a beautiful skater but together with ( Read more... ) -
10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 8
Day 8: Favourite thing they've done since retirement
Well now, let me think.....! I reckon that'd be coming back out of retirement for that little show called Dancing on Ice!
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10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 7
Day 7: Favourite Olympic ice dance routine
Again, Bolero would be obvious but I'm not going there. I almost said the Paso Doble from '84 but quite frankly nothing beats History of Love. Performed at the 1994 Games and quite rightly got great marks. It's just pure raunch on ice and so completely what a rhumba is all about.
Oh and the beginning bit of ( Read more... ) -
10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 6
Day 6: Favourite ice dance routine
And it's not Bolero. Bolero is wonderful no doubt about it and it helped change the shape of ice dancing itself but it's not my favourite routine. Like the photos, I'm not sure I have one single favourite because J&C have this amazing ability to be able to do the serious and the comedic, the slow and the fast and ( Read more... ) -
10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 5
Day 5: Favourite picture of the duo
I really really couldn't choose just one here so you're getting a few.
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10 Day Torvill and Dean Challenge: Day 4
Day 4: Favourite picture of Christopher
Again, too many to choose and I've chosen one that happens to include Jayne too. (What can I say, they bring out the best in each other ;))
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