by Eugenie Verney | Feb 24, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
We’re at Day 12 of my 21 Days of Transience, and I’m back at school getting to grips with fear… The day I conquered ‘swingy legs’ I felt I could conquer the world. Getting there had taken what, to a child of around seven or eight, seemed like...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 23, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Yay! Half-way through my 21 Days of Transience and for Day 11 I’m taking an unscheduled trip… This absolutely was not what I’d had in mind. No, I definitely hadn’t fantasised about being in the back of an ambulance as we made our winding way from Buxton...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 22, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Another week, another in my 21 Days of Transience — Day 10, to be precise, and I’m looking at how a transient thought becomes a reality… I’d already accepted the job at this point, so it was now just a matter of location and logistics. It’s November 1994,...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
For Day 9 of my 21 Days of Transience, I’m heading home from our annual holiday in Montenegro… When we decamped for our summer holidays in Montenegro — then part of Yugoslavia — it always involved trundling across a sizeable chunk of Europe in our solid...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 18, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 8 of my 21 Days of Transience, and today we’re off to Glasgow for Hogmanay… There are whole chunks I couldn’t remember the next day, never mind nudging 50 years down the line. It’s new year’s eve 1972, I am 18, and I am in Glasgow. I am in...