Walking back to Happiness

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Well. Welcome to this thread.

You may be surprised why it is here or happy it is here. Then again: ‘You have got to be joking! Do you know what is wrong with me?’ may be your response.

This all began on the Extreme Fatigue thread. On there several people wanted and needed inspiration/incentive to get out and walk. Many people see the benefits of it in their life and to help on this; mad journey, train ride, rollercoaster ride and other positively rude words journey called Breast Cancer.

It is not a thread created to make anyone feel less than they do at present. It is not a thread that will set people against one another. Being competitive with yourself or a simple challenge to yourself is the point, but not a race against others is a key premis.

The idea is that you can do any of these or none:

  1. Post when you have walked.
  2. Post how many minutes you walked for.
  3. Post how you felt before, during or after. Or not at all.
  4. Post pictures from your walk, but ones that do not point to where you live.
  5. Post inspirational quotes, thoughts or comments.
  6. A simple like of people’s efforts is fine. No need to write an essay unless you feel the need.
  7. On a safety note. Do tell friends, family or the thread when you leave and return safely. Be aware of your personal safety at all times.

 

Well here goes.

Either it will grow and blossom, with lots of lovely people benefiting. Or I will have egg all over my face – not for the first time in my chequered life and career.

Leolady – may be adding in the odd gallop to my walks.

PS if you don't like us don't be cruel.

  • Thanks Violetsniff, can’t like ! xx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Plymouth is my home town - hope you enjoyed it - I will be heading there in a week or so to visit my family and hopefully get lots of walks in by the sea and in the countryside - though will have my mum with me so can't be too adventurous, she has foot problems.

    I've been ignoring the site for a few days - just been too difficult to post or to read anything - well done to all of you who have persevered. I have to say, I am finding it much easier on laptop than on phone and am learning that if I keep trying, things eventually happen. Patience isn't my strong point. About pictures - you can now click and drag into the box when you are posting from a pc and I am finding this a bit easier than going through the insert/browse function - it's quicker if you have to keep trying - does take a while for it to appear though so be careful you don't get 2.

    Fingers crossed we can get back to full functioning soon - don't want to miss the chance of all the lovely summer walks I'm sure we are all having!

    R

  • Ronstar, give my love to Plymouth when you go, enjoy!

    The site difficulties have really upset me , could not get on the site st all for nearly a week. Now it is possibke on my phone, still with problems, but still impossible on my iPad, no chevrons to go back and forth, and cannot enter groups. 

    I’m wondering if it becsuse my ipad is quite old.

    Gave a good tine snd hope iti is not too hot! xx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Me neither now i look at them..... They look fine on my phone and on the icloud just transferring them to here poooooooop

    It was a lovely table in Sherwood forest with a lovely quote!!

    NOT allowing any pics from me no matter how small I make them

    LL56

    Life is like a boxing match, defeat is declared not when you fall ..... But when you refuse to stand up again ....... So, I get knocked down but I get up again. x

  • I'm sorry about all the difficulties with the site. I know the tech team are doing what they can to sort it out as soon as possible - hopefully not too long - I feel we have been struggling with issues a good while now. On my pc, I had to clear the cache to be able to access the site at all - I don't know if that's relevant to an ipad but if you have any option to clear your browsing history, that might work - and try to go in fresh rather than saved links - my saved links are all rubbish - even the ones the computer throws up for me, and the ones google takes me to. I'm not struggling too much with photos but they are taking an age to upload. You can use the form in my signature to log a complaint, or use the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page - or maybe for now -  feed back to the community team via the link on your homepage - (little notification on the left of the screen on pc) I'm not encouraging you to complain, as such, but the more info they have about what people are experiencing, the more likely they are to find the problem and a solution for everyone. Fingers crossed! (I tried to put in an emoji for that and it went in every line! Oops)

    R

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Fingers crossed that this post appears at the end of the topic!! That is because clicking on 'view last post' has still taken me to the first!.

    I follow the e-mails as usual but have no BC news to report - my next check is in September, but in the meantime, I've bbbeen having some dizziness and low blood pressure to deal with.

    I admire the way you photograph and keep each other's spirits up. Can't  put the 'b' in the word been!

  • Thank you Ronstar, will try ckearing browser history xx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to seaspirit44

    I walked yesterday and thought of all you lovely ladies somewhere walking with me, while humming 'Walking Back to Happiness'...  : )

    xxx

  • pleased your holiday was the best. You certainly sounded as though you were having a great time xx

    “ The only constant thing in life is change “

  • ‘Sigh’ it’s too hot to walk......

    bring back slightly cooler weather, once I’ve done all the urgent stuff in the house the temp has increased too much to think about walks!

    hugs xxx

    Moomy