Sue had a meeting in Sutton Coldfield and I’d agreed to drop her off and pick her up a few hours later. This left me in Sutton with time to spare. Sutton Coldfield, home of Sutton Park – what could I do to kill a couple of hours? After depositing the wife, I drove to…

An easy day feeling progressively better. With only a few sniffles I decided to try for a walk and as an added incentive chose a walk to the pub. I phoned Sue who kindly offered to pick me up from The Griffin after work and at half five stepped out of the front door. Instead…

Sue working again today but I did not feel like a walk en route to work. I awoke with a sore throat and by work time it had progressed to headache and general malaise. I took my walking gear into work in case I felt better later but I felt worse – so much so…

Sue had to work all day today ( 8 ’til 8 ) so I found myself in a similar situation to yesterday. I tried to come up with a route of around 6 miles but gave up and decided to do the same walk as last night. Everything was much the same except for the…

The holiday is over and it’s back to work! My wife, Sue, and I have just had a few days on the edge of Snowdonia doing not a lot – just taking it easy and spending some much needed time together. Of course, I still managed to get out for a couple of short walks…