Now I think a few people are going to be disappointed  because Herman is NOT a cat 🙁

Herman is The German Friendship Cake, a sourdough cake that sits on my worktop for 10 days while he bubbles away.

All I have to do is feed him and stir him, then on the 9th day I divide him into 4 and pass him onto 3 friends.

I keep the 4th portion and make him into a cake on the 10th day 🙂

Hopefully Herman will make a nice Cake !

Finally after almost 2 years I have finished knitting my socks.

They fit perfect and I cannot wait to start the next pair, thats presuming after all this time I actually remember how to start them off 🙂

No matter how I try I just cannot get the hang of knitting and watching tv at the same time, I am told its just practice but I doubt that I will ever master it.

Instead I am going to try listening to an audio book or get back into the Archers as I am sure I could listen and knit 🙂

Hopefully my next pair wont take so long…..  but don’t place bets on it !

I am always looking for something new to do and I have been missing my swimming  so tonight I decided to treat myself  and go along to the Ladies only session at the St James Pool in Kings Lynn.

Its the first time I have been to this pool and Its great that I can walk there in around 20 mins 🙂

Its a 25 meter pool and I swam aprox 40 lengths so not quite a mile tonight , which I think is 66 lengths.

I also enjoyed a good 15 mins in the steam room so now feel warm and squeaky clean

It was great to swim as it puts no pressure on my sore legs, which are beginning to feel better at last 🙂

This is something I hope to do on a regular basis, its perfect to do on your own, just a shame its so expensive which does not encourage people to keep fit.

My next little treat I hope will be a ticket to see Men are from Mars women from Venus, one of my drop in massage clients was  the wife/partner of the man doing the show and she highly recommended it to me.

Surely I could go on my own,  enjoy it and not feel sad about being on my own ??

There always seems to be great discussions on wether you burn more calories walking or running.

Well I have done my own little experiment

I run 4 miles in 46 mins and burn 593 calories.

I walk 4 miles in 57 mins and burn 371 calories.

So I would have to walk around 6 or 7 miles to burn the same kind of calories that I do when running 4 miles  🙁

As usual its all about time !

Today I went to see a physiotherapist and apparently I have just niggled my achilles sleeve not the actual tendon, so after some ultra sound  and massage the advice was to rest it and stretch it.

Try a 4 mile run the week of the Gear race, see how I get on, then make my decision!

Resting it really means no walking either but that is imposible so we shall just have to wait and see how I get on, but at least its only a matter of time 🙂

Its most likely been caused by my over worked and exhausted Hamstring muscles, so I need to work on strengthening my Gluteal and Quadricep Muscles, as well as stretching my Hamstrings.

Maybe giving up yoga and the gym was not a good thing to do !

Interestingly the physiotherapist’s opinion on having a massage was that it would ease my muscles for a short time but not correct the problem.

Due to soaring diesel prices I almost didn’t go on a walk today, as the only decent walk would have meant an 80 mile round trip 🙁

Then I swallowed my pride and rang to see if I could get a lift and luckily for me the walk leader was only too happy to give me a lift 🙂

So this morning it was off to West Stow to walk with the Norfolk Leg stretchers, I knew most of the 8 other walkers and it was great to catch up with them, many of these walkers knew me when I was going through the very dark stage of my life, I am sure these walkers and the walks helped me get through this bad time 🙂

Nice to see that certain members also follow my blog too 🙂

After not having a good walk for the past few Sunday’s it was really good to get out and walk 16 miles, my achilles and hamstrings did ache a little but not enough to stop me from enjoying the walk.

Most of all it was great to catch up with people and I was very grateful for the lift 🙂

Its almost a year since I moved into my lovely house, for some reason my garden was full of concrete strips, Geoff  always said we would get rid of them BUT to me it looked a huge job.

Digging up the concrete started a good month ago and over the past few days Geoff has been finishing my garden for me 🙂

Its been very hard work and at least 4 ton of concrete had to be moved to Frimstone Quarry at Snettisham on what had to be the wettest day this year 🙁

We then collected sand and 14mm gravel ready for laying the Patio and path the following day, which was thankfully dry !

The third day was spent planting some shrubs, digging the vegetable plot, and moving the  rotary washing line from the middle of the garden.

I even have a compost bin now and will try to do a little more recycling, its something I have never really been into as it involves too much driving to take the stuff to the recycling centre, which in itself is not green !

Its looking fantastic and all thats left for me to do is plant some vegetables, seed the grass and generally look after my beautiful new Garden.

Now all I need is the sun to come back so I can enjoy it at its best 🙂

Another HUGE thanks to Geoff for all his help and hard work, next week he is off to walk the south west coast path and even though I will miss him tons I hope he has a fantastic time because he deserves too 🙂

When I met Geoff all I wanted to do was walk 20 miles with ease.

In the beginning I thought I would never be able to do it and thought I would have blisters and aches and pains forever 🙁

After trying many boots it seems I have finally found boots  that my feet like and blisters seem to be a thing of the past …

Our Little Ridgeway Ramble consisted of 5 walking days..

Lockeridge to Ogbourne St George 13 miles

Ogbourne St George to Court Hill Centre nr Wantage 18 miles

Court Hill centre to Wallingford 22 miles

Wallingford to Princes Risborough  23 miles

Princes Risborough to Ivinghoe Beacon 20 miles

I think I have finally achieved my dream of doing 20 mile walks, so a 26 mile walk is my next goal ohh and some Mountains in July and a 10km run in May

Although I will need some new walking boots before I spend 11 days walking along  the GR10