AnD Where To Next

04/05/2019

My life (trade the bath for a shower with hot running water and) this is my heaven 😍

Life doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful.

14/04/2019

“Wild women are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet.
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.”
Nikki Rowe

Mr. Fox at Munkholmen Island, Norway, c1900.

04/10/2018

21/03/2018

Sorry I've not posted here for a while.....it's a long story😔 However, today was a good way!! please pay kindness forward .ski

I found myself with a free morning today, so I posted on Favebook to reach out to find someone local, who I didn’t know, who really needed some help with their skiing and to offer them a ski lesson free of charge.

Diane contacted me and explained she arrived in Tignes in December. She said ‘I came to Tignes to fall in love with mountains and skiing, I’m bored of going up and down the nursery slopes on my own and have lost all motivation and haven’t been out skiing since February!’

Diane works as a local chalet host and was finding it hard to understand why so many people would spend so much money to come skiing. When I met her this morning I told her I would show her why and it’s possible that she will love skiing by the end of the morning too.

We started on the nursery slopes and developed her skills and knowledge to make skiing more enjoyable for her.

Once she had mastered this we headed up Palafour (a blue run) for her first ever ski up high in the mountains. On the way down Diane said ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you! now I understand why so many people love skiing!’

Diane now feels she has the confidence to ski blue runs on her own and is hoping to join her colleagues and friends skiing in the mountains over the rest of the winter.

Well done Diane, I am so happy to have been able to help you today!

www.TORI.ski

05/01/2018

Couldn't have said it better myself...

Hiking - "I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

- John Muir

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28/12/2017

When your guests have you shotting vodka at 730pm and your boss comes in and makes you down red wine but you still hold it together and be professional serving 3 course meal....I'd like to thank my BVI training 😂😍

14/12/2017

While shaving my legs this morning my first thought....'was I mad to remove a thermal layer in these conditions?!' At least I don't have to use the hairdryer to dry my legs anymore😂

12/12/2017

Week 1 of my crazy decision to take a chalet host job in Tignes. Now many of you ski lovers will tell me how lucky I am, what an amazing opportunity, how I'll fall in love with skiing.......but you have to remember much like the boat thing, this decision was based on me hating being cold, not being able to ski and not being a confident cook😂 Met my lovely team the night i arrived (9 of us and 2 managers). I nearly fell off my chair when they told us 200 people had applied for these jobs. Days 1 and 2 were great cause I didn't go outside much, only to go to the pub by clinging unto a rope that took us down the side of a building (short cut😂). Day 3 I got to see my beautiful chalet, day 5 got snowed in with over 70cm of snow falling in 1 day (this was the day I asked myself "what the x&*^ have I done?" ....And people here tell me you get that feeling a couple of weeks in when you've been stressing over guests😂). Day 6 I got my ski pass and ski equipment....I think mine will mostly be in my room looking pretty😂 Night 7 I finally got to sleep in my bed that I'll have for the season. Tonight went to the pub to make my shopping list as guests arrive on Saturday........not sure how many posts I'll put up here -we'll see how many stupid things I do to make you all laugh. (View is from my sink in the chalet....one I'll see a lot off)😂😂

05/12/2017

So as I queue for my flight to Geneva I am updating as promised. What a busy 5 months - seeing 'old' friends I haven't seen for 12 yrs +, running out of time to see others (sorry Debbie and Helen-next time) and getting so drunk I don't remember chatting to others (Adrian Tantrum). Meeting friends from traveling days back in UK is always weird (Nat and Kay). Birthdays, new babies, little people I had never met. Serving salads, over heating defender, new UK destations that I will return to one day (aka Cornwall). New puppy and lots of poo, soft play fears, red wine and bubbles in a London park. But the one memory (or lack off) will be the broken arm saving puppies and kittens.....(off course I bloody wasn't, I drunk 2 bottles of red wine and fell of a kerb after a night out with my 'sexy chefs' Lex)😂 A huge thank you to my amazing friends and family, especially the Os (Helen) who let me squat at their's (their 9, 6 and 3 yr old know what squatting means) Love to you all and see you all later ###xx

29/11/2017

I wish this wasn't true😂

Smh

05/11/2017

Very conversation I had with a friend today!!!!

28/09/2017

I love this - I am trying to do more to cut down on the chemicals in my life, (I am struggling with them found in red wine though) ;-) ....our grannies knew so much more than we gave them credit for!!!

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