It was time to replace the battery in the pedometer (I am low-tech) in readiness for a New Year's Resolution - to walk ten thousand steps. I'm not sure I can achieve this every day but so far we have managed it on the principle of extending existing errands such as the walk to the Post Office, and revisiting familiar routes that take us through the landscape of lowland Lancashire; wet woodlands, ponds with boardwalks and wildfowl, small rivers with sandy banks sometimes eroding and yesterday what looked like a stone Victorian ruined walled garden hidden in beech woodlands.
I hope I can keep this up. Fuelled by jelly babies against hypos and checking my blood glucose when I feel I am losing energy I tackle slow inclines through cloughs and copses, and long homeward roads dissecting deserted business parks.
Back by sunset. Time for tea and home-made (reduced sugar) cake.
