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What I Did on my Hols

Jules — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:48:51 +0000

Before I actually went on one, I thought the term Yoga Holiday was an oxymoron. I have just come back from a week of bliss on the Greek Island of Santorini. I went with a little trepidation remembering my last attempt at a yoga holiday in a Sivananda ashram in the Bahamas where no booze or coffee was allowed, the food strictly vegetarian and the day starting at sunrise.

Last week’s yoga retreat in Greece was led by the very talented and gentle Andrea Freely of www.yogafreely.ch and not once did I feel the urge to sneak off down the beach for a margarita and a tuna melt.

The girlies came along with us. That’s them having a great time riding my back and although they only came to the afternoon sessions they loved the yoga and I highly recommend it as a family experience deepening relationships and sharing beautiful moments together.

Yay Go Me!

Jules — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:45:29 +0000

Read my latest publication in The Geneva Times on The Montreux Jazz Festival. (Pages 16&17)

http://www.genevatimes.ch/images/stories/freeOnlineMagazine/index.html

Cave Cleaning

Jules — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:37:16 +0000

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. April has been a fun month, a trip to London to exchange on our flat, some interesting work: editing a voice over, translating a brochure and writing an article on the Montreux Jazz Festival. And if that wasn’t enough the cherry blossom and lilac are blooming in my garden under a warm spring sun. And now it is as if the great film directors in the sky have gone off to direct someone else’s life and pressed PAUSE on Jules Ritter (that’s enough for that one for now). So I go with it. I wash ski suits, emptying pockets of ski passes, lip salves, coins and used handkerchiefs. I make neat piles of clothes to be given away to charity. I take my oleanders out of their hibernation and I clean out my potting shed, sweeping the year’s dust and cobwebs into a big sack. Inbetween I go for a run, get my legs waxed, buy groceries, go for a catch-up hike with a friend, go to Heidi’s for hot yoga, cook and make an appointment for the dog to get her hair cut.

It’s nothing new. Many, many years ago we got up and cleaned our caves – threw out the old bones and perhaps with a few twigs and a bit of blossom made a decoration for the corner or strewed petals over grass mats used for sleeping on. (This is where I hear you all snigger at my version of life as a cave dweller with pot pourri and bedding). So whilst I wait for the next bit of karma to come my way: completion on the flat, some writing work, I make lemonade and happily clean my cave.

And continuing along the yoga theme…

Jules — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:01:33 +0000

Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish

Jules — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:00:42 +0000

Life coincidences are strange. Today in the mountains one of Sophie-G’s school pals spending the holidays with us asked for a Mars Bar for breakfast. He’s charming, smart and kind but he’s not my son and so I let him eat it with only a wry comment from me. Later, feeling guilty, I manage to get him to eat an apple. But still life throws me back a question mark by leading me to Jamie Oliver’s speech a few hours later and I realise how remiss I was by not refusing and cooking up some eggs instead. Mine was a small task and I failed. Jamie Oliver’s task is humongous. He is attempting to convert all Mars Bar eaters in the USA to eat apples forever. He’s brilliant.