6th June 2011

Today I had to go up into town for the first time since Thomas as I had a hospital appointment in North London. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I also managed to squeeze in my Juneathon exercise at the same time by walking from the hospital in Belsize Park to Camden Town tube station. I've never walked through Camden before and I was amazed by how vibrant it all seemed. I was also surprised to see how tranquil it was around Camden Lock compared with the hustle and bustle on the street.

15th May 2011

Rather bizarrely when we went out for a walk this afternoon we found that someone had left a bag of carrots at the end of the alleyway next to our house.

12th May 2011

When we were away at Easter we picked up a geocaching travel bug to move on and so this afternoon we decided to combine our daily fresh-air expedition with a quick bit of geocaching to drop it off. The cache was well hidden in the woods but we managed to find it without too much trouble!

8th May 2011

The weather was nice this morning so we decided to take advantage of it and go for a bit of a walk in the countryside. Whilst out we found this stile which clearly belonged to another era since there was no associated fence and we were able to walk straight by without needing to climb anywhere!

27th January 2011

It's funny the things you don't notice as you go about your daily business, take this statue outside the BBVA building on Cannon Street. I walk past it every morning on my to work but only actually noticed it for the first time the other evening when I was walking home on that side of the road (normally I'm on the other side and so don't go past it)!

18th January 2011

Nice weather at lunchtime today, so I decided to go for a walk and take a look at the river...

3rd January 2011

In an effort to ignore the fact that today was the last day of the Christmas break we went out for a country walk to do some geocaching and followed it up with lunch out in Sevenoaks. The walk was mostly on footpaths and bridleways running through a private estate and one part took us past a large flock of sheep! They didn't seem too bothered by us though...

26th December 2010

This morning we headed out to find a puzzle geocache that Dad had challenged us to calculate the co-ordinates for a while ago, unfortunately we were less prepared on where we needed to park to retrieve the cache and so in the end we just enjoyed a lovely walk in the snow and gave up on the search.

9th December 2010

One week since it stopped snowing, but traversing our road is still something of an obstacle course. The easiest place to walk is on the road since the pavement is cluttered with random piles of snow from where the Council cleared the road with their snow plough and people in the street have dug their cars out of their drives. Wish the snow would hurry up and melt!

29th November 2010

I had a opthalmologist's appointment at a local hospital this morning and as they often put drops in your eyes to dilate your pupils after which you're not allowed to drive, I decided I would walk to the hospital via Darrick and Newstead Woods. It's generally a very peaceful walk through the trees and avoids the busyness of the main roads, however today I spotted the rather charming sight of a burnt out car in the middle of the school playing fields next to the woods. They'd also clearly done a good few laps of the field before setting light to the car as the grass was all churned-up too - delightful!

19th November 2010

I'm on a bit of a mission to find 400 geocaches by the second anniversary of us starting geocaching in November 2008. Unfortunately though we've still got six to find before Sunday and so today I went out at lunch time in search of an 'easy' one close to my office. The hint was that it was behind the face in the railings, unfortunately there were rather a lot of faces and so as I was starting to look a bit suspicious walking up and down the street I had to give up... Looks like I will be out again looking for some local ones tomorrow morning!

22nd September 2010

This evening I walked from my office in the City to meet a friend for dinner on the South Bank. My route took me past St Paul's Cathedral where I saw this "Blitz" Memorial Statue. It remembers all the UK firefighters who died during World War II and a Service of Remembrance, followed by wreath laying, is held at St Paul's Cathedral every September.