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…
walking
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…
Night Manoeuvres
I finished work at the usual time and drove straight home. A quick change and I was at the front door putting Gabby into her harness. I grabbed my walking belt, popped in the water bottle and checked for poo bags. Lead taken and off to the car. Just before a quarter past five, I…
Coleshill and the Bridge of Doom
We had an easy day, yesterday, the other half, Gabby and I with a gentle stroll around Coleshill. It was after dark so Gabby was bedecked with a flashing light whilst the humans had torches. This evening, it was just Gabby and me. We drove out to Coleshill and with her new(ish) running harness we…