Tag: surfbooks
Surf Mama in Woman’s Own
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 […]
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Spirit FM – Wave Euphoria
Spirit FM Review of Surf Mama Surf Mama By Wilma Johnson Published by Summersdale Billed as ‘one woman’s search for love, happiness and the perfect wave,’ here is a book that manages to be both a brilliant piece of travel writing and an amazing and inspirational human interest story. Living on the west coast of Ireland with her family, juggling her work as an artist with domesticity, in her 40s Wilma was suddenly gripped with the desire to move to […]
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Jazzing the Glass
The flat spell continues, soon surfers will start to lose their religion and make the ultimate sacrifice to the pagan sea gods by burning surfboards, while manically beating on their bongo drums to summon up a swell. Partly to remember what a wave looked like Florence and I headed over to Jazz the Glass in Biarritz last night for the opening of Sylvain Cazenave‘s exhibition of surf photos from four corners of the ocean. I have a running joke with Sylvain after I […]
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Surf Mama in Express Monday 9th June
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. […]
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Surf Mama launch at Vout-O-Reenees
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 […]
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Surf Mama 