COLD!!!! And grey and windy – even at 08.30. Less said the better to be honest. Continue reading →

Snow! Lots of it. Strangely I managed to reach 120% of my steps goal today almost entirely indoors – by virtue of facilitating a four-hour workshop during which I was standing, pacing, animatedly waving my arms about and encouraging others to do the same. Which meant that my 45 minute dog-walk in the snowy park … Continue reading →

Uggghhhhhh. Mondays! My walk this morning was crammed in between 06.00 and 07.00. In the cold, cold darkness. And with half of it on the phone to Singapore. Grim. But it still managed to improve my mood! Continue reading →

Today’s walk was delivered in two chunks – a lovely 45 minutes this morning with both girls and the dog, and a longer hour-long session along the canal in the evening sunshine. The woods this morning were sunny, and fairly dry underfoot. The air smelled of the shoots of wild garlic that are already beginning … Continue reading →

Today’s walk was at a gentler pace – 7km in 90 minutes in beautiful winter sunshine and along quiet country roads. The pace dictated mostly by my 10 yr old. No lambs yet we noticed – but lots of very pregnant sheep. And a little bunny rabbit hidden in a grass nest at the foot … Continue reading →

Phewee! 10% of the way through. Managed to pack in my hour today at lunchtime walking back from Victoria to Kings Cross. Fielded a conference call on the way and still caught a train in time to get back up north for my daughter’s Winter Banquet celebrations at school. Can’t wait for the weekend though. … Continue reading →

Fifteen thousand, six hundred and twenty-three steps in my day today – almost all achieved by walking from Victoria to Shoreditch which took a good hour and 45 minutes. It was a lovely evening but cold. One of those high, distant pinkish-orange skies as the sun went down over the river. Spectacular London skyline – … Continue reading →