Ever since rescuing Gabby from the Birmingham Dogs’ Home, we have been, half-heartedly looking for a companion. The other day, we spotted another German Shepherd on the Birmingham Dogs’ Home website. We umm’d and ahh’d before deciding to nip up and just have a look. On arrival, we found that the selected dog had already…
Kev Walks
PARKrun and PUBrun
As a work colleague has promised to do Sutton Park parkrun next week I decided to do a different parkrun this week and do Sutton next. As I would be running with Gabby, I chose Kingsbury Water Park with it’s wide tracks. The usual parking fee for the water park is usually £4.50 but on…
Batteries and Boozer
Wednesday was to have been a longish walk to Hams Hall and back which would have included a fair few unlit tracks. With this in mind, I put freshly recharged batteries into my head torch. As I inserted the final battery, the torch gave one short flash to indicate that the batteries had been put…
Rest and the Rest
Following a busy weekend of parkrun and a long walk we forced ourselves to a rest day on Monday. On Tuesday, I woke at five and felt as though I couldn’t go back to the land of nod so got dressed and prepared Gabby for an early morning walk. The first half mile was along…
Bodymoor Heath
On the first day after the clocks go back, it was nice and light when my mixed up body clock awoke me around half six (or was it half seven?) We jumped in the car then realised that the windscreen needed scraping (winter draws on). After a few minutes with the scraper we were on…