Category: Activities
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Our year’s foraging
It’s been a great year for foraging but, as always, it’s the stuff you don’t manage to do that sticks in the mind.
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Autumn foraging
This year has seen a bumper autumn for foraging with a fantastic crop of fruit gathered by us from hedgerows within a short walk of the house thanks to the warm and mild spring.
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Bure Valley
It has been a long-held ambition of mine to combine a trip on the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge railway running steam-hauled passenger services for nine miles between Aylsham and Wroxham, with a walk on its accompanying footpath. Our recent trip to Norfolk has finally presented us with the chance to accomplish this.
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Spring foraging: Elderflowerade
With spring bursting out all over it’s a fine time to be picking up the foraging again with a big simmering pan full of elderflowerade.
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Orienteering
The nice thing about being in the recovery period after a race is you can be an awful lot freer about what exercise you take. In this case it was a run around a fixed orienteering course in Stevenage.
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Letchworth’s Greenway Challenge: The race is run
Well. We did it. A little over two weeks ago now, but it’s taken that long to sink in fully. We’ve now competed in a half-marathon and haven’t been put off running for life by so doing.
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The big walk
I only found out very recently that it’s considered perfectly normal to walk (as opposed to running) a marathon distance, something that a sizeable group of people do quite regularly, taking part in a plethora of events around Britain that welcome walking entrants.
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100 Days Challenge – completed!
We did it. 100 continuous days of intentional movement, of at least 30 minutes every day, starting on January 1 and finishing on April 10.
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Why do we run?
Here’s a great talk on the topic of running. Running is a big subject here at the moment since we’re currently three months off attempting the inaugural half-marathon in the town next to ours.
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Arboretum
Saturday brought practically the first sun of the new year – so, before you could say ‘quick – find your shoes’ we were through the door and off for a bit of outdoor activity. The idea was to try some gentle outdoor running after a long period of being constrained by poor weather and (if…