Very nice interview about surf art life and dreams in Barcelona based magazine Nau Nua this morning http://naunua.blogspot.fr/2015/04/wilma-johnson.html
Categories: press • Tags: Art, Biarritz, mamas surf club, surf, surf mama, women surfing
Really nice ’20 minute book review’ in The Connexion. Just a little disclaimer – I was only referring to my own ‘dowdy 70s layered haircut ‘- no-one else has one, except perhaps the sheep . Need to make that clear or I may never drink Guinness in Dingle again! It had never occurred to me that wetsuit manufacturers do not offer a maternity range but Wilma Johnson noticed it as she was summing up the good (three children) and the bad (a […]
Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, Dingle, Living in France, mamas surf club, surf book, surfmama, The Connexion, Womens surfing
How the Beach Changed Our Lives. Something incredible happened to these readers when they headed on to the sand. Could I really learn to surf ? Sitting on a lonely stretch of beach I gazed out to sea and asked myself where it had all gone wrong ? I was 45, living in a coastal village near Biarritz, France, and my marriage had ended. Nick and I had three gorgeous children and had tried so hard to make it work, even […]
Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: beach, change your life, mamas surf club, surf, surfbooks, woman's own
After a crazy week in London launching the book it was quite calming to get back home and back to my roots with the Mamas Surf Club on friday. A bit too calm in fact – we had the sort of waves I dreamt of when we first started in 2005, tiny to non-existent. For a while we had another motto alongside ‘Out of the kitchen and into the Surf’. ‘Never too small for the Mamas.’ But I’ll say the […]
Categories: Blog, letter form Olatua, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, mamas surf club, surf, surf mama, wilma johnson, women surfing
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