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:
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.
moomy,a friend knows I don’t like the crowds so she told me around 9 a.m. was best as the joggers and dog walkers have finished By then.
Isorry can’t edit my writing so may be a bit mixed up..but you get the gyst!! Xx lalso...germs have had time to land on the ground...well thats my theory anywayxove earlier rather than later,as river so serene and also not barged into!!
Thought the thread had turned into a bread making one I’m looking forward to trying cheese and onion bread..soda bread too sometime. Strong flour available (59p at Lidl) and dried yeast at Jacks.
good to see you around Violetsniff
I'm walking, doing yoga/tai chi, making masks, gardening etc etc Getting out early on a morning seems the best time to avoid the ‘crowds’, although I bet most are off to the (nearby) seaside now there is easing of restrictions.
No pics as they aren’t on my iPad ..I can never get them to load from phone. Great pics and now videos ..
xx
“ The only constant thing in life is change “
I’m wondering whether to set an alarm for an early walk (alarm?????whats that?????) but really do feel I need some different exercise and today getting out in the car felt very odd (went to fill up with fuel, such a low price!)
yoga and marching on the spot is all very well, but it’s not quite the same!
Hugs xxx
Moomy
Hi all, either I’m going totally crazy (possible) or my post on this thread from earlier today has vanished! I mentioned Violetsniff’s swans (lovely) and the field of buttercups. And posted a photo from today’s short dog walk. But it’s all gone! Never mind I’ll try the photo again in a minute. Worth a try moomy, your alarm idea, if it means you can get a quiet walk in. I haven’t tried any ‘earlies’, I don’t feel great first thing even though I’m usually awake from 7 or before. Seem to need a cuppa in bed to get going - I think it’s since starting on Anastrozole. I have found lunchtime quietest round here, from the various times I’ve tried. But pre breakfast could be good, though could be popular with dog walkers and joggers. You can but try! Hope you’ve had a great day, Love to all, HFxx
Well done,moomyfor getting right out for a walk at last...it must have felt good!
...thankyou....I was interested that you were making some masks.A friend (who I have never met!)on fb is organising a round up of people making masks,gowns,anything really!and she is wonderful...working all hours.I am afraid I am not...but I manage knitting one square a day Towards a blanket for a homeless abused teenager for her.She is full of ideas!!I really enjoy doing it(am a a slow knitter)as I do it while watching the press conference each afternoon With a nice cuppa.It is a sort of ritual now.and when I stopped doing it I missed it so much I started again!!
lovely morning.Have two friend-dates today where I will meet 2 different friends one in morning,one in afternoon,for a chat and read and company.At 4 paces apart,of course!!xxssorry they look a bit messy...have to iron them...but I sent her a picture with the caption” Can we eat now please? “ asked Pooh.’xx
I saw your buttercups,before they vanished,!!yes...there are some very odd things going on in Internetland at the moment....xx
Lovely to meet up with friends Violetsniff! I Nordic walked with a friend today, very hot as it was in her lunch hour (she’s working from home) but so nice to walk and chat, where possible. Most of our walk can be on open marshland so we were able to walk alongside each other while keeping well apart. Didn’t stop for many photos but saw these duckteens on the river. Missed them when they were fluff balls sadly. Did you get out in the end moomy? Love to all, HFxx
I've been knitting squares too Violetsniff
......They may not be in this arrangement when I finally have enough to put together. The patterned ones sometimes need more concentration than I want to give when watching tv and also if the neuropathy in my fingers flares up but I have knitred all the plain ones during confinement.
Dear Lacomtekp!!
loving your squares...so winderful that you did them with your neuralgia! I love the patterned ones too!!
I really enjoyed my friend-dates today!! So nice to chat.Also heartening to see more peolpe in the areas which have been so sadly empty.I saw an old colleague who I called but forgot her name! so I couldn’t run and tap her shoulder! Anyway we stopped and chatted at a distance and it was her first time out...I explained some people are goid at distancing and others are the opposite! So be careful!
it was so nice to chat.
watched the swans lifting their lovely enormous wwings.When I went up to see my second friend, I dressed up as Pocahuntas.I do try to take some props in a bag to dress up in on her front garden for a short while, each
time I see her! She was suitably impressed! I am a bit if a poser!!but why not have some fun!
Love your duckteens,HappyFeet1!!
love V xx
Hi Moomy
I started literally walking round our cul de sac at the beginning of this lock down. Now I regularly do 4 k in just over an hour. I walk better , stand better, and move better. I'm back to being 63 instead of 83. Although I confess to being slow over stiles. I cross the road like an adult instead of a doddering old codger.
I've experienced Spring first hand. Watching wild flowers unfurl and trees come into leaf. I've missed my granddaughters, so much so that it it's a physical pain. But the beauty I have seen and heard over the past eight weeks is a joy I will remember, hopefully forever.
Watching the tractor cutting the grass and smelling the crop as it flew into the trailer was amazing. Previously this happened while I was at work.
Don't get me wrong this Coronacoster hasn't always been easy. There are still days when I hug teddies to get the smell of my girlies but sitting in silence while I read has its positives.
Time for sleep. I've been sat in a meadow with wine and strawberries, we got pretty good at catching the fruit at 2m and if you stretch you can pass a bottle, one holding the neck the other the base with sanitised in between.
We will all get through this and sitting in a meadow will be a highlight.
Love you Claire. Wearing lipstick for the first time in 2 months.
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