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Tag Archives: walking
Travel Challenge – The Results, Day Eight
You kindly followed me through ten days of travel pictures, guessing where each one might be. I thought I’d put you out of your collective miseries/make you punch the air with a ‘Yes, I was right’ with a follow up. … Continue reading
A Fine Surrey White
I’ve been walking with a few of my former law colleagues for a few years now, usually twice or three times a year. This Year of the Turnip has put paid to most of that (we had grand plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, miscellany, walking
Tagged boxhill, denbies wine, Friends, ranmore common, walking
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Going For Pembroke: Day Three, The Crab And Bromance Edition
Our last full day disproved any ‘Wet Wales’ preconceptions we may have held. A day off the physical punishment was allowed, even if the Vet did her own thing. Having watched a minute of her routine (what’s routine about such … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, miscellany, Wales
Tagged family, holidays, pembrokeshire, Wales, walking
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Going Pembroke: Tiny Wales
Day two and a longish drive after exercise with the Vet (legs bums and tums plus a cheeky cardio and abs finisher). Cheeky being apposite because at some point during the session my right buttock began deflating, and the abs … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, miscellany, Wales
Tagged family, holiday, Pembrokeshire coastal path, st David’s, Wales, walking
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Advice To A Young Man #advice #parental advice #poem #poetry
My father and I undertook several annual walks with friends. These were usually a week, sometimes longer and took in some of the great long distance footpaths England, Wales and Scotland has to offer. We saw some gorgeous parts of … Continue reading
A Walk In The Woods #thoughtpiece
I happened to be walking around Dunwich Forest in Suffolk yesterday. It’s a calming place when you dodge the logging that is happening in a few places. Then I came upon a man with two spaniels. He was ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, miscellany, suffolk, thought piece, walking
Tagged dog, dunwich forest, Suffolk, thought piece, walking
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Part one: My French Debut #france #french
I’m in France for most of this week so I thought a series of posts on my experiences of all things French. As our nearest neighbours – I am speaking as a Brit not as an Englishman, just to clear … Continue reading
Posted in France, holidays, memories, miscellany
Tagged France, holiday, memories, travel, walking
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Walking With Rosie #bookreview #the rosieresult
I did a daft thing a few weeks ago; I signed up with the Long Distance Walking Association to undertake their 3rd Capital Challenge. Starting at St John’s Church Waterloo it circumnavigates some of the best bits of London’s green … Continue reading
Posted in Book review, walking
Tagged 3rd capital challenge walk, London, the rosie project, the rosie result, walking
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Walking While Pondering #dunwich #suffolk
When it comes to weather, we can become a trifle obsessed. Today, fr’instance, the weather person told me we achieved the highest ever February temperature in the UK – 20.6 C somewhere in Wales. Most people of my close acquaintance … Continue reading
Walking With The Wind At My Back: Part Four
Kirkby Stephen to Richmond This is the fourth part of my walk that I undertook with my father and friends across England from Coast to Coast. Part three is here. You can link back to the earlier posts from there. … Continue reading