ByJulia Chi
I have been aware of death all of my life, right from the age of two and a half when our dog Judy died on the same day that my little sister Rosy was born; one life ending as another was just beginning… Our mother died when Rosy was only fourteen and I was sixteen,…
ByJulia Chi
We wandered up the little street, that we had run along only a few hours earlier… We were in search of some lunch… Instead of empty quiet, we now dodged weaving mopeds, a donkey pulling a cart, crowds wandering too in the heat that had risen to the heavy level you can almost touch, slice…
ByJulia Chi
I woke just after 6am, with the light gently filtering translucent blue yellow through our window, I lay enjoying the feel of silence… We had gone to sleep with the sounds of Marrakech still reverberating around, bikes roaring past, the relentless cry of an inconsolable child… The heat static and ever present had dropped a…
ByJulia Chi
The dust was whipping all around the streets, whirling around, stinging our eyes, getting into our mouth if we didn’t keep is closed tight… The bright blue sky, and searing heat, that had greeted us when we arrived, was replaced by heavy humid grey… We had lunched in a little restaurant with brightly coloured table…
ByJulia Chi
Today I have been wandering around London heralding my approach with tinkly jewels on my feet.. They arrived in the post from a fan ? And there is no record of who sent them… However I do know that they are either from Jay or Fi, because they have both told me that they have…
ByJulia Chi
And now Anadi and I are at Gatwick…I am in Costa writing, and Anadi is in a meeting… It feels a bit like time travel… The journey from Devon to here took only four hours… We left at 6am, in the rain – and the journey went in a flash… The feel and energy of…
ByJulia Chi
Today Jane and I had a very happy day, mainly spent in the laundrette… We had started the day again on a very wild and windy Woolacombe beach, and come gratefully home to the delicious Score Valley House Hotel breakfast, where we had a lot of fun showing Paul and Donna – our hosts –…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I arrived here in Ilfracombe on Monday evening, we were met by our host who wasn’t wearing shoes! ‘Barefoot’ I exclaimed as if I were greeting one of my tribe… ‘I’m always getting told off for it’ he laughed… ‘No no…’ I continued; ‘I’m a barefooter too…’ I didn’t realise until that moment…
ByJulia Chi
The sun is shiny golden bright today, gusty windy cloud scudding bright… We are in Lyme Regis and I have just enjoyed a very blowy walk along the seafront to the end of the Cobb… I stood on the end which was characteristically windy… And looked over to golden cap where as little girls Rosy…
ByJulia Chi
After nearly three miles of running along the beautiful sandy sea weedy ‘middle beach’ of Studland Bay, I reached the end and saw a line of traffic queuing to the edge of the water; a tall man who had run past me as I was running along the beach, was waiting there too with a…
ByJulia Chi
As I sit here writing I can hear rain, persistent and heavy… All I’ve heard is rain since we arrived in England last Wednesday… But it lends itself to a green lush land, and is an enjoyable and different experience for us – as well as for my feet.. Although Anadi has laughingly asked me…
ByJulia Chi
We woke to a grey blowy day and I stepped out into a land of green grey; Dorset stone rising around me; grey slippy pavement beneath my bare feet… Feeling the energy of the earth beneath my soles, I ran down the road to the beach. The squawking seagulls circled around the empty space, sweeping…