Sue's Blog

Yes really; big waves some of them 6/7 feet high! For those of you who don’t know Pereybear beach it is the best spot on the whole island of mauritus to swim and it is always as calm as a millpond; but not today!

We were disturbed from sleep and evacuated from the path of a cyclone ( warning level 3) at 6 a.m. but by the time we had reached Port Louis it had passed by the south west of the island!

On our return we had an amazing time in the waves the sea was warm and blue and there were waves and I got rather sunburnt oh well it was worth it.

This is my first blog from Mauritus and so much has happened in five days but I just had to write about the waves; this was really something special!

Sorry I should have published this last week !!

They are the best of me; creative, intelligent, beautiful people………they know who they are and how much I love them……leaving them to go thousands of miles away is breaking my heart…..but until they have children of their own, they will never truly understand my feelings now………

Well this is the second day of my ‘new me’ project; courtesy of the Independent (see my previous blog) Yesterday I didn’t watch any TV ! (what happened in Coronation street did thingy survive his fall off the mountain??) today I have to write for 15 minutes apparently the idea is that you need to change your ‘habitweb’ i.e. do things differently…..so here I am writing for 15 minutes I am hoping that writing on line counts, the trouble is for me that the things I have to do this week I would probably do most weeks anyway i.e. walking for 15 minutes, doing a good turn for someone, getting up an hour earlier; I like change, like taking different routes, if I can I always go somewhere one way and return another. There is also a list of 20 things to do as extras and I have to choose 2 and to be honest I will probably choose something easy like buying and reading a different magazine (testing huh) rather than going to the cinema on my own or some charity work, so I hope that doesnt mean that I am not fully meeting the requirements. Anyway in just over 2 weeks time I am really breaking with habit and leaving everything familiar to live on the other side of the planet; so that must compensate for my poor effort with these minor tasks…well I have been writing for 15 minutes so must stop now… I’ll keep you updated on my progress, still not sure how this will help me loose weight????

Christmas and New Year are all over…. I always have the feeling at this time of year that this should be a fresh start, an opportunity to improve myself; to be slimmer, nicer, more aware ……….. but as usual I’m the same old….. I got up this morning and bought the Independent’s guide to a better me, a new way of thinking that will make me slimmer ( I’m not joking that is what is says !!! you only have to buy the paper for 2 weeks .. sucker I hear you say) No doubt I will soon be back to believing that every day is the first day of the rest of my life………….. I like that; it means one can have loads of attempts at a new start!