Last night we squeezed in a family dinner with my daughter
and her husband Martin at their home. It’s only a couple of miles away as the
crow flies, but the trouble is we are all have such busy lives that fitting in
a relaxing evening together is astonishingly hard. They have just returned from
a holiday in Scotland that
they jollied off to at roughly the same time as we went away on a work trip to France Austria where Steve has his big race of the year,
his thirty first Ironman which is his tenth in Austria
We had a wonderful evening, not just due to the lovely meal
that awaited us but that Jacqueline was eager to show us all the photos she
took during her photography week in the South of France, the highlight being a
most adventurous session, taking some amazing shots with the mares in their natural wild habitat
in the waters of the Camargue. Most people would be freaked out at having a herd of
horses galloping directly toward them; can you imagine the noise of a group of
horses’s thundering through the water and passing right by you so close that you
can smell them, seeing their eyes locking with your own?
She stood in a pair of fisherman type waders as her only
protection; no fence or hide, only her strength of will allowed her the most
fabulous shots with ears back necks being nipped and mane’s flying as they
passed a little woman fearlessly standing her ground.
She said last night that she wished we could have been there
because she knows that we share her love, and admiration of beauty and
character of horses. In her stories about this once in a lifetime experience
she expressed how thunderstruck she was with even the memories of this time
that she will hold in her mind and heart for ever.Jakki is only a slip of a girl, well ok, woman, but she has
the fearless soul of a superhero.
This just sounds like a proud mother I know; except that I
know my daughter and she will never back away from a challenge and will fight
for what she wants to achieve and will gain whatever she strives for, with
sheer guts and determination. I am in awe of her grit and tenacity. Jacqueline
still remains every bit a female and one who can be easily hurt, mainly because
she expects her friends to be as constant as she is and not everybody can
manage to be so true, they simply don’t all have her strength.
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