It is Sunday. The shine is shining . It is a day of rest . But each day feels like a day of rest . Everyday feels like a Sunday. I could turn over , fall asleep and have a late breakfast . Somehow along the way , over the last 30 days walking has become an obsession . Much as I want to return to sleep the sun shining in beckons me on. It does not take long to make that cup of tea . Make a full English for the driver. Poke my nose out and make the decision. Decisions . Decisions . Coat on . Coat off. Coat on . It is coat off . As long as I walk in the sun I will be fine . The sky is bluer than ... read more

The brain this morning does not want to function . One side is saying get up , get moving , get out . The other side replies in a negative fashion . Let me stay in bed a bit longer. My foot aches . Underneath and on top. Shoes are rubbing toes from so much walking . To top it all brain says calves and hamstrings are aching . Lie in bed. Give in . There is always tomorrow . But then t'other side chips in but that is wasting 24 hours . Get up you lazy thing . Plan your day . Do something constructive . Strange to have a strong voice in your head saying Dont bother moving . Lie in , get up late but the other stronger side is motivating. Its voice ... read more

Sometimes you have to try something different . Chesterfield area is not all Peak District pretty . Nor is full to the brim with pretty stone cottages . Stone walls, fields and Bluebell Woods . There is another side . The A61 divides the two halves . The Peak District side where it only takes minutes to walk from our village into the countryside . The other side was highly industrialised . The Avenue - once the main entrance to Wingerworth Hall became the most polluted site in Europe . This 240 acre brownfield site once housed coking works and has been cleaned up ready for redevelopment . It took 15 years to clear the solil and decontaminate it before planning permission was given for 469 properties . That number of properties mean another 1000 inhabitants ... read more

I love walking on my own. It is never a lonely experience. There is too much to see and too much to take in . Even on Day 24 of the lockdown I am still finding nooks and a cranny or two in our village that I have never investigated before . Yes I am covering the same ground sometimes but there are still footpaths I have not explored . There are still the squirrels who delight me as they cross my path; the owner training his gundog . A young puppy who will stay until told to run but then gets distracted by me walking close by . She comes to play with me. Our village is large 10 thousand live here . It feels more like a small town than a village having grown ... read more

My virtual trip has taken me to Denmark . Another country added to the list and another magnet purchased for the board in the kitchen . So thoughts on Denmark . I wonder what the roads will be like. Will they resemble the de dum de dum roads of Belgium or the straight as a die roads of Germany ? I imagine a very flat country. A country of pigs, bacon and more pigs. There is more to Denmark than pigs and lovely bacon. Considered to be one of the most economically and socially developed countries. It has a very high standard of living and welfare state. It may be expensive but we have a pocketful of Danish krone to spend . Will we find it too expensive ? You only live once so spend we ... read more