My NeverTooLate List

Today I printed off my list of NeverToolate adventures and stuck it to the wall in my office just above my To Do List and to the left of a large frame which holds a melange of photographs from my life. The pictures in the frame took a little while for me to choose when I sorted through my box of keepsakes and they are a combination of me on my own in various places - usually on some walking holiday somewhere like Ben Nevis at Easter 2002 or the Cares Gorge in the Picos Mountains in 2000 - or of me and groups of friends. Everyone is smiling for the camera ......... I wonder if one day I will be looking up at the same frame but with a photograph of me on top of Everest. This is both an exhilarating and overwhelming thought and one which makes me stop for a moment to really think about the things I have decided to tackle. It’s very easy to have good intentions and to think about things you would like to do, but quite another thing to actually achieve those things. This is uppermost in my mind as I’ve received an email telling me that a formal recommendation has been made to appoint me to the Doctoral Programme at Warwick and so instead of thinking about doing a PhD it is now becoming a reality. That means a day in Warwick every Thursday for the next three years and a bloody big paper to write at the end of it. I need to fully understand what a big undertaking this is, on top of everything else I want to do.