It was a miserable, wet, afternoon as I stepped out of the car in the car park of Solihull Hospital. My other Half was taking my Mother for a check up (on a Sunday? Yes!) so I went along for the ride. I made my way North, crossing under the Solihull Bypass and finding the…
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Swinging
One of those “Not a lot happened, just the usual walking stuff!” sort of day. Got off a couple of stops later to make the walk to work just one mile. Why did I only walk one mile? I’ll tell ya! Today should have been an easy four miles, however, I had to get to…
Warm Wednesday
Usual two miler to work. Usual two miler after work ? Wrong. It was such a nice sunny day, that I decided not to waste it but to walk a little bit further – then catch the bus. From work I walked around the corner and joined the canal network. At Bordesley Junction, I switched…
Sunday Socks
Another misty start as I ventured out of the house for another ten miles. This wasn’t going to be anything exciting – it would be a well trodden route to Coleshill, Hams Hall, along the Blythe and back. I selected the next Billy Yang podcast on my trusty iPod and set off, over the motorway…
Country Walk
Today was to have been the ‘usual’ two miles to and from work. I managed the first leg walking from Saltley into work. By afternoon, the weather had improved and we were blessed with a gorgeous sunny spring day. Too good to waste on a two mile walk along a Birmingham canal. At the end…