I still adore the fact that, despite having walked out from Stoke Prior many times, I can still find myself on new paths within moments.  Today I went up Norman's Lane, which is an unmade road.... sort of.  I kept seeing bricks embedded in the rough surface, although with no pattern to them - like they were the hardcore base for something that had ( Read more... )

We're really getting to a point now where any walk I undertake is going to have a good percentage of paths and roads that I've already walked.  I don't mind this at all, as this whole venture developed organically, so I didn't need to be planning the most efficient routes like a UPS courier, and as long as there's some new path in each walk, I'll ( Read more... )

Well....  I didn't get out yesterday, despite my best intentions.  TVL Mrs. McDingo had her Covid vaccination on Thursday, and had been suffering with side effects, feeling fluey and horrible ever since.  Although significantly better today, she's been quite grot, so I stayed around yesterday in order to be supportive and helpful.  I had my jab on ( Read more... )

A slightly strange one today.  I had to fit a walk in between a couple of other chores, and I was keen to get out after a couple of long days at work stuck indoors for 12 hours at a time.  I managed to get out to Monkland, to undertake a walk that I had first tried to do back at the beginning of November.  On that occasion I was still getting used ( Read more... )

On what is a long, quiet and sporadically annoying day at work, I thought I'd have a look back over my walking progress over the last 7 or so months.  What started as a desperate attempt to try and inject some health into me, eventually turned into a reasonably structured project that, I think, I have a good chance of finishing.

( The Story So Far... )

An early(ish) start today meant that I didn't get the best of the weather, but it was still cool and dry, and I was all done and home by midday, which is a rare occurence.  I'd planned the route last night, and was just finalising when I realised that it would be much better walked in reverse - had I done it the original way, I would have ended ( Read more... )

A bit of an odd one today - it was what I'd consider a 'local' walk, but it was just far enough to make driving to the starting point a realistic proposition.  Had I walked the entire thing, it would've added an extra 2 miles onto the route, and that would all be ground I'd trodden many times.  So feeling a little cheeky I drove up to Leominster ( Read more... )

TVL Mrs. McDingo had mentioned that she was going out for a walk with her mother today, it being mother's day weekend, and so I cadged a lift as far as Kingsland, so I could walk from there to home.  Of course, after the near disaster earlier in the week, I was much more prepared, and remembered to bring everything with me this time.  She dropped ( Read more... )

The Very Lovely Mrs. McDingo does some work with a family who, as luck would have it, live almost exactly on the four mile boundary of my little adventure circle.  When she said that she was going out there yesterday afternoon, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to jump in the car with her, get out at her clients, and then walk back home along ( Read more... )

After far too many days at work, it was nice to see something other than the four walls of the theatre, and finally get out again.  It was a beautiful clear day, with a cool breeze and big blue skies, and the sun came out later in the walk making for a proper spring day.

( The Tedious Detail. )