Date: 21st February 2011
Distance: 1 1/2 miles
I did my first walk of the year today. I've been meaning to get started since January but I don't enjoy walking in the winter weather. It's too cold. Half term started today and I couldn't put it off any longer - had to get out there. It's two months until the sponsored walk and if I don't want to be crawling the last 12 miles then I need to train.
Distance: 1 1/2 miles
I did my first walk of the year today. I've been meaning to get started since January but I don't enjoy walking in the winter weather. It's too cold. Half term started today and I couldn't put it off any longer - had to get out there. It's two months until the sponsored walk and if I don't want to be crawling the last 12 miles then I need to train.
I started off with a short one - I walked to the post office to renew the car tax. Mundane but enjoyable and only a mile and a half. It was cold and wet. One of those days when the trees and bushes twinkle with drops of rain on every twig. My hat looked bejewelled when I got back home. It's a while since I walked down to Moira. I passed Cold Comfort farm where I surprised the farmer's wife as she tended her chickens on the other side of the hedge. Not a word was spoken but the chickens looked happy. Moira Village Hall now has a Rosemary Conley slimming club on a Monday morning. She's a Leicestershire local - I saw her once at the Remembrance Day service at St Helen's. She's very slim and extremely clean looking. That seems to be the way with rich people. There was a bright sign welcomimg people in but it didn't seem many attended - not many cars in the car park. Everyone goes to Weightwatchers on a Tuesday night. It only took 20 minutes to reach the Post Office. There was a queue but then there always is at Moira Post office. I never mind waiting as I like to hear the customers chatting whilst weighing in parcels and getting their holiday cash. The walk home was equally uneventful. The traffic steamed past me sounding loud in the rain as the cars swished through the puddles. There was nobody about - not even dogs walkers. Everyone's either at work or sheltering indoors waiting for the weather to improve and watching Homes Under the Hammer. I noticed the daffodils are starting to show along with crocuses and snowdrops. The spring isn't sprung yet but there are stirrings.
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