July has been a month of celebrations! We have just become parents again to a little baby girl called Jasmine Kelsey who was born on 2 nd of July. Our other daughter, Rosemary, who was born on 4 th of July, has just turned three. Then on the 24 th of July I celebrated my own birthday. Then, a completely different thing to celebrate happened yesterday, when I went to collect a registered letter. It contained non other than my South African Mountain Guide's badge. It had really been on my husband's suggestion that I went through with the rigmarole of yet more training, mountaineering assessments , 3 hour exams, and a mountain of coursework. The standard set is by no means at half mast, and over the last year there were a number of times I wondered whether it was possible to complete around my other work and being a Mum. During the course I became pregnant with our second child, and again wondered whether I could really finish it. One particularly draining weekend involved n
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