About this blog

Welcome to my Blog.  It has two purposes :-
  1. To have somewhere to store my photos and recollections of some of the walks I've been on.
  2. To have somewhere to experiment with Google's Blogger platform.
Let's see what develops !


Blog Notes :
  • Please click on the 'Read More' in relevant entries to see photos and other details.
  • Click on any photo for a 'light box' view of all photos in that entry
  • Entries are against the date of the walk, not the date of me posting it on the blog.  On the remote chance you're returning to this blog a 2nd time, you may have to click about to find details you've not seen before as I'm not always posting walks in the order I do them.
  • Locations marked against each entry is the start point of the walk.

To explain a few common references :
  • We invented my "Walking Saturday" by reserving a Saturday most months when we'd stay at home.  Val would go to a craft group she runs called 'Crafty Space'. Determined to use my free time to go for a walk, I started this Blog to record these and other walks.
  • I have a pedometer which records my daily step count.  All my steps are recorded on a Nintendo DS.  I have a daily target and the program gives me a green smiley face if I achieve my target.  If every day of the month is green, it's a green month !
  • I have used various programs to record my walks.  I mainly started with Google's "My Tracks", which saves files which Google Earth can read.  Alas this was both flaky and is now discontinued.  I slowly moved over to using ViewRanger.  However I also discovered that Google keeps track of everywhere you (or at least your phone) go every day.  This can be shown on www.google.co.uk/maps/timeline

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