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Singing Amy Winehouse, Lucy News from Namche Bazaar and Daffodils

1 Fabulous singing session this morning learning ‘Valerie’ by Amy Winehouse. As the harmonies built up and then the melody came over the top – it was brilliant! And I hadn’t liked it much on first listen. I love the way Claire can do that for us!

2 Came home to find this message from Lucy on Facebook: “Now that was the hardest thing that I have ever done and possibly the hardest thing that I will ever do, I got very sick and nearly didn’t make it, but did and now I’m flying back down the mountains… lots of love to all… Still taking sponsorship…http://fundraise.unicef.org.uk/MyPage/LucyEverestBaseCamp”

We are so proud of her and delighted, that despite being so sick, she made it!

Everest Base Camp

3 There are daffodils in the garden, some open, others just bending their heads ready to burst. There’s a field near Ponsanooth on my way to Penryn that has daffodils all over it and it’s such a delight to round the corner and see them. It’s not commercial growing – they’re just there!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 23, 2012 in Uncategorized

Tags: Amy Winehouse, Claire, Cornish Daffodils, everest base camp, Facebook, http://fundraise.unicef.org.uk/MyPage/LucyEverestBaseCamp, Lucy, Namche Bazaar, Penryn, Ponsanooth, singing, Valerie

More Brass Trade, ‘Fab after Fifty’ and Everest Base Camp Reached

21 Feb

1 Met a lovely man this morning whose daughter saw my ad for the brass sheets on Network Cornwall. He’s taken lots of the brass and is going to make me a weather vane. Even better, he mends instruments for Camborne Brass band so the material will be used in the way it used to be. That will please Charlie.

2 Sallie Grayson of People and Places, through whom we did our Voluntouring in Mapoch, South Africa, sent me this article about the over 50s volunteering and they used my photo!

http://www.fabafterfifty.co.uk/2012/02/21/how-do-you-go-about-volunteering-overseas-things-you-need-to-know/

The children watching the video of them dancing

3 Lucy is due to reach Everest Base Camp today. We should hear from her in a couple of days as they get back down to Namche Bazaar.

Look to this day, Acclimatisation and Trail Ridge, USA

15 Feb

1 This poem has taken me through some difficult times and today I have been reminded of the importance of what it is saying.

Look to this day
for it is life
the very life of life.

In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the splendour of action
the glory of power.

For yesterday is but a memory
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day….

~ ancient Sanskrit poem ~

2 Very happy email from Lucy who is having an amazing time. Today is an acclimatisation day at Namche Bazaar. They are at 11,500ft at the moment and are feeling the effects of the altitude.

3 I’ve spent a happy hour or so looking through our photos from our USA trip last year. The highest point we reached was 11,796ft and that was by car up in the Rockies. The shortest of walks was hard work. I am in awe of what Lucy is doing.

: View from Medicine Bow

: Me – at what felt like the edge of the world!

: On Trail Ridge at 11,796ft

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 15, 2012 in Uncategorized

Tags: Acclimatisation, ancient Sanskrit poem, Look to this day, Lucy, Namche Bazaar, Rockies, Trail Ridge, USA

Namche Bazaar, e. e. cummings and a Valentine’s Day Dinner

14 Feb

1 Lucy has trekked from Phakding to Namche Bazaar today. Quite a trek by the look of it.

: Phakding to Namche Bazaar

: Lukla_phakding

2 Love:
I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
My heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
By only me is your doing, my darling)

I fear
No fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
No world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
Higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

e. e. cummings

3 Excited email from lovely sister-in-law in Atlanta with a copy of the menu from the restaurant they are going to tonight – sounds fabulous! Our delicious meal was more modest but quite delicious and cooked by us at home – our favourite – Duck Confit, with a starter of prawns and dessert, the same fabulous Chocolate Amaretti Soufflés that I did for Mr S’s birthday dinner and a bottle of Footprint Shiraz, that we discovered in San Francisco.