Tag: walking
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Dad Joke of the Day came to me early when some fellow dog walkers coming the other way said "Hello, gorgeous!"
"Ooh, thank you!" I replied, nonchalantly tussling my hair and striking a coquetteish pose.
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Dan poses with a coquetteish grin while walking a French Bulldog along a gravelled rural path.
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Thames Path 7
Ruth's completed yet another stretch of the Thames Path, continuing at what could literally be described as a glacial pace, and she's written another part in what's turning out to be a wonderful blog series to follow-along with.
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Four OpenBenches
Despite Google making it harder for me to do so 🤬, I managed to add not one, not two, not three but four new memorial benches to the OpenBenches database during a dog walk this morning.
A particular excitement was adding my first bench with two plaques.
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Found GCBMAMH #22 Northmoor Loop
This checkin to GCBMAMH #22 Northmoor Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. For a while I was looking way too high, but in the end I caught a glimpse of this surprisingly well-concealed container.
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One last outing for the dog and I along the Cotswold lane we've been living on, before we move to different temporary accommodation tomorrow.
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French Bulldog stands patiently in the centre of a potholed rural single track lane.
We're hoping soon to no-longer have to move every week or two, but we're not at that point yet.
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Caution: No Swimming
Hurrah! I just made my first successful submission to Curious Cones, a weblog collecting photographs of traffic cones spotted in unusual places.
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A few pockets of the morning's freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk.
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A French Bulldog trots along a concrete slab farm track alongside fallow fields bordered by mist, hedges, and distant flanking hills.
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The dog came out for a walk with the eldest kid and I, but we couldn't stop her sticking her head down rabbitholes!
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In a grassy field, a girl in a red dress and comfortable boots kneels with her head completely vanished down a rabbit hole.
(Oh, and the dog kept doing it, too.)
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As the UK's heatwave continues, the dog and I were delighted that this morning was sufficiently overcast that we could manage a proper walk without completely melting.
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A French Bulldog on a forested path, panting happily.
Her breed copes badly with the heat and we've lately had to keep her indoors or in the shade more than she'd like, so a chance to run around among the trees was very welcome!
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Happy Stone Circle Sunday! The youngest and I went out to Avebury Henge, the world's largest neolithic standing stone circle and henge.
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On verdant grass and under clear skies, a boy in a white-and-blue 'Sonic the Hedgehog' t-shirt strolls in front of a line of about half a dozen enormous standing stones.
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Found GCB61ZC Mossy
This checkin to GCB61ZC Mossy reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Saw GCB61ZC "Mossy" appear yesterday, but I'd already had an Easter Sunday beer or two and couldn't drive out here... in fact, I realised, I probably wasn't in a state to cycle out here either and so I resolved …
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Brought the kids up Knipe Scar with limited and challenging art materials (huge sheets of paper and thick marker pens) for a lesson in drawing what a landscape makes you feel, rather than focusing on what you can actually see.
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Two children on a rocky green hillside each draw on a sheet of A1 paper.
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I'm in an extremely rural area and I needed a phone call with my lawyer about my recent redundancy. Phone signal was very bad, so I resolved to climb a nearby hill and call him back.
"I'm at a crossroads," I said, when I finally found enough bars to have a conversation with him.
"In your life?" he asked.
"I guess," I replied, "But also, y'know, literally."
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Pre-Worboys Committee British junction signpost in black and white, photographed against a bright blue sky. The signs point to Rosgill in one direction, Shap and Kendal in a second, and Bampton and Haweswater in a third.
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The phone signal is so shit at this year's 3Camp venue that I've had to climb a hill to take a call from a lawyer (whom I'm speaking to about my recent redundancy). Nice to be outdoors, though!
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Dan, with a laptop, sitting alongside a rural Lake District lane in bright sunshine.
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Found GC1DH7W Knipe Scar - On the Edge
A swift uphill scramble for my friend and fellow volunteer John and I, before dinner. We're staying in a nearby farmhouse for a week if volunteer work, writing software to help charities. Beautiful view from the summit this evening! SL, TNLN, TFTC!