Toni the Maldive Lady
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Champneys
I was over the moon when I was invited to give a talk on MY islands, the Maldives, at the famous health spa, Champneys at Tring. In my time there were no health spas in London.  For me to be able to talk to their guests on a Saturday night after supper was a sheer delight. Their guests were much-travelled but no one knew anything about MY MALDIVES.
I was a Speaker with FOYLES and my Maldives talks up until this point had been mainly to public schools all over the UK. I never had notes, I just spoke from my heart. My slides were amazing and included pictures of my children, Lucinda and Ashley, then aged 15 and 12, visiting the Shark Circus, 20 meters down under the sea, where the famous diver, Herwarth Voitman, would feed sharks by hand and mouth.  This story is already here (Shark Circus).

The school children just loved my talks, especially the Shark jaw and Barracuda jaw that I brought along that I had caught on my travels in the islands. But Champneys was adult time. Prince Charles once gave Lady Diana a birthday gift of a stay here with a couple of her girlfriends. Guests would also arrive from abroad. Just everything on offer at Champneys was amazing.

I was the New Girl on the block. At meal times many guests would ask me to sit with them to hear more about the islands and of course their PEOPLE. I would be booked every month. The Champneys’ talks I loved doing best were “their specials”. These were the talks I gave from Christmas to the middle of the New Year. They were packed with a large number of 'lonely ladies’, my talk would always cheer them up!  

I  would always end my talks by teaching my audience a few words of Dhivehi, the Maldives’ language. The words I taught them were ‘KIKU RANI’. What do they mean? Simply 'WHAT A PITY'. All of us can get stressed out and out knickers in a twist in life. I would say to the guests: "Stand up, stretch out your arms, put your head to one side, SMILE, and say ‘Kiku Rani”. They all did this and laughed and laughed!

Through my talks I started a flow of visitors to the Maldives islands.
These were amazing times for me AND for the Maldives as well.


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The Maldive Islands


Ariyadhoo, Himithi, Mini Mas,
Gali & Maamigili
Fuah Mulaku

GAAFU ALIFU ATOLL SCHOOL
Gan and Feydhoo
Hanimadhoo & Uteemu
Ihuru
Kuramathi
Kurumba
Laamu  Atoll
Lhaviyani
Niyama - Dhaalu Atoll
Rashdoo & Noonu Atoll
Villingili

Holiday Of A Life Time:
Maldives, Sri Lanka & Dubai

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SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION - LETTER FROM BENEDICTA

MY ISLAND STORY

On My Way To Happy Days

Passenger Flying Log Book

My Very Good Looking Father

Through a Zanzibar Doorway

Lion Sands

Cape Town

A Night At The London Zoo

Wild Reef Child

Ashley

Flying With Hunting Clan

Love At First Sight

The Queen Mother

Romy Has a Surprise!

GEORGE

My Talk 2018

My Flying Diary

The Maldive Lady, by Jo Foley

LiveWire: First Lady of Leisure

Kunfunadhoo

The Lady In The Loo

First Round The World Flight

Tehran

PHINDA

Rat Story

Visha & Maya

Saint Helena

A Flight of a Lifetime

Diving Bangaram Island
Shark Circus
Richard Harley
Yusuff Moosa

I Dived To Victory
Memorable Muscat
You Must Not Wear Any Weights Or Life Jacket


A Magic Boat Launches

Angkor, Cambodia

Champneys

Country Life

Crown of Thorns

Having A Whale Of A Time

​Hurlingham Club Magazine Summer 2016

Kenya

​KASHMIR 1959

Lady Rose

Love of Skiing

My Magic Beans

My Outstanding Award
My Sandbank
Museum of Mankind
My 86th Birthday
Classic Wings: My 87th Birthday
My 88th Birthday
Magic Yellow File
RACEHORSE
Seychelles
South Africa
The Haute Route
Thrills & Spills - Dhoni Mighili
Underwater Ireland
Welcome To Stanford Bridge
***WEST OF ZANZIBAR***

Helicopter Bride
SCHOOL / FLYING
World Travel Mart
My Adopted Maldivian Family
Life Threatening Thalassemia
Himmafushi - The Young Offenders
Villingilli Orphanage
The Tsunami
Commemorative Coins

1986 Commonwealth Games
Guest Speaker of the Canberra
My Cocktail
Love & Marriage in Sri Lanka


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Flags
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A Maldives Symphony -
My Swan Song:

- Velassaru & Kuramathi
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Colombo

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