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Surf Mama in Express Monday 9th June

June 11, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

      I turned a mid-life crisis into my great adventure on the waves. Mother-of-three WILMA JOHNSON was in her 40s when she realised all she wanted to diii was go surfing.   Sitting on a deserted windswept beach on the most westerly point of Irelandauthor and artist Wilma Johnson rememebers experiencing a life-changing epiphany. As she watched husband Nick gliding effortlessly across the Atlantic swell she suddenly decided that her mission in life was to learn to surf. […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: surf, surfbooks, surfing, wilma johnson

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Urban Beach – Surf Mama at the Art Car Boot Fair

June 9, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

Categories: Photos, surf mama • Tags: Art, Art Car Boot Fair, surf, surf mama

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Surf Mama launch at Vout-O-Reenees

June 5, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

  Surf Mama launch at Vout-O-Reenees on Monday was a wild night. Enormous stroke of luck that one of my best and oldest friends Sophie Parkin had just opened Vout-O-Reenees ‘ private members club for the surrealistically distinguished’, the perfect setting for the launch, in the crypt of a church in the city, surralist decor and the fabulous garden room painted a la Monet by surfer Morganico. We gave away a free tequila sunrise with every copy because we just […]

Categories: surf mama • Tags: surf, surf mama, surfbooks, tequila sunrise, wilma johnson

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High 50 for Surf Mama

June 5, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

  Babe of Biscay: How I started a new life surfing in France Biarritz is one of Europe’s hottest surf spots. With her marriage on the rocks, Wilma Johnson learnt to surf at 40, moved there, and has written a book about it. Oliver Bennett meets the Surf Mama   At sea, a line of surfers straddle wild, white-topped waves. Back on the stately Quai de la Grande Plage, wetsuit-clad surf-bums stroll alongside ladies with lapdogs. It is time for that […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, fifty-somthing, surf, surfing, wilma johnson

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Seagull Style

May 10, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

I was getting pretty stressed out by my knee injury recently, finding it hard to jump lightly to my feet on my board – in surf lingo my take off totally sucked. So I decided to avoid stress and go bellyboarding using this elegant lady as a role model ( you will notice that she’s surfing straight towards the brewery). It was not really fun and gave me my hit of adrenalin rush- all waves are overhead when your lying […]

Categories: Blog, surf mama • Tags: bellyboarding, seagulls, surfing

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