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I spent last week in North Wales with my paddling partner Justine Curgenven and her boyfriend Barry Shaw, training and planning for the Aleutians next year. It was my first time in a kayak for nearly a year, and my first decent shot at exercise…

My sign off with my last blog was that I was going to get healthy again. After four nights in hospital (during which antibiotics not only stamped on the pneumonia but I also adopted a wonderful 93 year old called Peggy as my new grandmother) …

Typing this not from my desk in Rutland with dogs sitting by my feet, or a train whizzing through autumn fields, nor a busy coffee shop or the kitchen table… but a hospital bed. This wasn’t quite the place I had imagined I would be…

Lucy here – Sarah’s fiancee. IT’S NEW YORK DAY!!  Excitement doesn’t  come close enough to what I’m feeling right now. I am happily tapping away in amongst piles of clothes and bags packing and repacking and double and triple checking where I’ve left my passport.…

I don’t quite know what to write or how to write it. If you could see my face it would say it all at once. A massive ear to ear Outen grin and shining eyes, emotional with tears just sliding out from time to time.…