by Eugenie Verney | Feb 24, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 20, the penultimate day of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m looking at being the outsider… I’ve moved home 15 times so far and while I know that’s chicken feed for your average forces family, it’s still pretty fair going for most mortals. The...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 28, 2019 | Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
It’s a year since I embarked on my 21 Daring Days, a challenge set by writer and storyteller Megan Macedo, founder of Be Yourself Marketing. And I’m back: poised to do it all again, to create a piece of writing for 21 days using Megan’s daily prompt. Only this year...
by Eugenie Verney | Oct 10, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
My second guest blogger is also one of my role models! I got to know Susan Jones first as a formidable stand-up paddleboarder: she’s focused, disciplined, and as a competitor highly accomplished. As a club mate — she also trains at Bray Lake — Susan is wise,...
by Eugenie Verney | Oct 5, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
A quick update from the SUP front… This week I took part in my first standup paddleboard time trial, at Bray Lake SUP Club night on 3 October — and, to my amazement, set my fastest average speed yet! In the grand scheme of all things SUP, I am very far from fast...
by Eugenie Verney | Sep 27, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
That moment when you realise you’ve just been a bit of a numpty and you’re wishing you could rewind for a couple of minutes? Yup. That was me as I faffed about just off the beach close to Hayling Island Sailing Club after I’d finished what had been a very satisfactory...