Thames Path 7

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2026 has not been an easy one so far. Work challenges, family challenges and my frickin’ house flooding have combined to make everything a bit overwhelming and hard to cope with.

So when we got a sunny Sunday, on a weekend in late April when (thanks to having found a long-term rental) we didn’t have to move between short-term lets, I cajoled Dan into once again acting as my support driver so I could walk some more of the Thames Path.

Dan and the smaller child joined me for the first couple of miles from Abingdon, which was nice.

My partner Ruth’s mission to walk the entire length of the Thames Path1 continued recently, and I still love “going on on” her journey – even the parts I wasn’t present for – through her blog posts.

If you too might enjoy blog-spectating this slowest-possible-walk along the length of the River Thames, you can catch-up on the backlog and subscribe for the next one, whenever that happens!

Footnotes

1 She’s doing the walk in many, tiny, and disparate instalments. By her own estimates she’s achieving about 50 metres per day, when averaged over her entire effort. This makes her only marginally faster than the 40 metres per day of the faster parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which I guess means that her progress is literally glacial in its speed.

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