I have just been listening to Jenny Joseph's poem - Warning. I am thinking that I will practice today - wearing  purple, learn to spit and go out in my slippers! You can hear it here - 


http://youtu.be/8cACbzanitg


I am loving the sunshine - what a joy. Ben loved it too much yesterday and is now a wonderful shade of ... red! Not the ideal way to look when you are going to your first day of work experience! 


Yesterdays final day of the Tour de France was amazing. The last 1k was so exciting. Chloe and I were yelling at the TV (as if this would help). I would love to be in the Champs Elysees to see the end one year.  It is wonderful to be able to say that - one year! I am starting to think of a future that includes me. But I am hoping that I never lose that sense of joy in life that I have gained by this journey. There is so much to see and do every day and I want to grasp it with both hands. I hope I never lose the wonder of 'my one wild and precious life'


“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. 

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument. 

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.” ― Mary Oliver