I went for a bracing 6 mile walk several nights ago – a distressing experience in more than one way. It hurt, for one thing. This was almost a week ago, and my calves have only just stopped aching. I’m back to striding manfully about the place, instead of tottering around like an arthritic tortoise, […]
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In an effort to try and get a bit more exercise, I went out and purchased a bicycle on Saturday…and rode it earlier today. You can’t see me (thankfully) but I’m sitting very still, and moving only when absolutely necessary, and then in a curiously slow and jerky manner – rather like a bad stop-motion […]
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It’s good to be busy I suppose..but there’s always some other cost. As, for example, the early morning extreme brainlessness that led me to lock myself out of my flat at 8 am last Wednesday…having got up especially early in order to drive to Welwyn Garden City for a day’s work in schools and library. […]
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A couple of weekends ago I spent a brisk and energetic afternoon down at Willen Lake (local-ish beauty spot. Sort of. Buddhist monks & an awful lot of geese notwithstanding) trying to retrieve a very big kite from the top of an annoyingly un-climbable tree. It having been a bit windier than I thought, the […]
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