MY EARLY MORNING WALK - Nov 2014

Early morning walk? Well, maybe more of a mid-morning walk. I have no 8.00am meetings to attend; no school run; no rush-hour traffic jams to avoid. So why take an early morning walk? Why indeed?

During renovations, I thought I may become fit and lose some weight, but that never happened - no, not even a teeny weeny bit of weight dropped off. I guess pointing walls, and carrying slates and wheelbarrows full of stones and rubble is not as aerobic as I had hoped! Maybe it has something to do with all those coffee/cake breaks.

So, to inject a bit of aerobic activity into my sedentary lifestyle, I take a brisk walk every morning along the lane - just as far as the corner. It only takes 10 minutes and includes some up and some down. 

It has now increased to 15 minutes. Impressed? 

No need! The reason for this increase is not due to me taking a longer walk. 

It is because . . .

 . . . during the walk, I have my compulsory chat with little Stevie the blind lamb who's very small, and still likes to be in the company of his mother. He is always in the same spot and responds to his name with a twitch of his ears, a roll of the head and a bleat (although this week he's been somewhat subdued). 

A rather subdued Stevie

. . . I pick up branches to allow traffic through, well ... tractors and the occasional sight seer

. . . I clear blocked roadside streams and drains of leaves

. . . I stroke the horse who lives opposite

. . . I check progress of nearby Japanese knotweed, which I have been trying to eradicate

. . . I admire the view from the corner

. . . and all the way back

. . . And the good news? I think the weight loss is working!



The sad news is that on this morning's walk I discovered that little blind Stevie has died :-(




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