Just a last reminder
My problem with this blog is that I found out a day or two ago that, from an Anrdoid tablet, I can't upload images to the blog. A blog...


A change of format
I’ve run into an unexpected bit of trouble with my blog. I won’t go into the boring details but the upshot is that I’ve had to move the...


A day of sunshine and a little perspiration
Well, actually, yesterday was hot and windless, and I sweated buckets. Why do I choose a day like this to go for my last training walk?...
Plans and more plans
The silence since my last blog is not a symptom of inactivity. Certainly not! And I haven't fled the country or fallen down a hole and...


Walking behind Fan y Big
The second of my Wales walks was from a campsite a mile east of Brecon. A couple of days ago I deserted the comfort of our motorhome for...


Cynwyd, Moel Fferna, Carrog and Corwen
The next chapter of this very intermittent training schedule is from North Wales where we're having a short break that is intended to...


A veneer of Oxfordshire mud
Viv and I were visiting the other pair of grandchildren and their parents this week and yesterday I managed to sneak off for a day's walk...
A poor month for getting fit
I suppose that I can blame the weather but that wouldn't be altogether fair. Or I could blame the time that I've needed to spend on other...
Getting fit enough to mow grass
Having had a couple of less-than-perfect opening training walks (too much wind, too much up and down, not enough time) I yesterday...
Spring came to the coast path
The internet weather forecast had little blazing suns across the day with not a lot of wind, and that from the north. So, infected with...