Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?
156 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Can we, Willow the Great Dane and I, Louise - Walk 1000 miles a Year, 2021? We are your typical couch potatoes, it seems like a awfully long way and we are not Ramblers or Hikers, just your everyday people who live on a boat, I didn't mention that bit did I. Yes - We (Dave - Husband) and I squeezed our Giant Breed dogs on a Narrowboat. Hear a Great Danes account of each day, as well as my own, as we step away the miles #Willowwalks1000miles #walk1000miles #walk1000miles2021
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Day 213 – Weekly updates - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 29, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MBDay 213 - The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that the podcast is about 2 months behind real-time and we’ve just finished May. I hate to say it because I committed to you and myself at the beginning of the year that I would post daily blogs, but life, well life, and cruising are just getting in the way. Recording daily worked whilst in lockdown but I’m really struggling to find the time and effort. Let me elaborate regarding “effort”. It’s not that I don’t enjoy doing them, of cour...
Day 155 – 2 out of 3 - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 27, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.05 MBDay 155 – They say they come in threes. Bad luck, because clearly feeling like life has a downer on us, so it isn’t going to be the good stuff. Inadvertently got scammed last night – was expecting a parcel, paid for a parcel to be delivered, and shouldn’t have. Had to phone the bank and police and froze my card. Then my computer crashed this morning from overwork. So, I’m just sat here waiting for the third and final strike to bear down on us like a ton of bricks. And sit here I wait. We we...
Day 154 – Friends - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 26, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6 MBDay 154 – We continue our narrowboat cruising journey along with the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, which includes the beautiful Don, we travel under the magnificent Conisborough Aqueduct. It just can’t help but take my breath away. I have a somewhat reasonable excuse for not walking, there is no towpath, and what with all Dave’s van and bike shuffling I am required yet again to skipper the ship. Lol, I say that like she’s massive, but no we are so dwarfed in this much bigger, mor...
Day 153 – We’re off - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 25, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.44 MBDay 153 – This is a walking diary, right? Well, maybe but it’s evolving into more of an overview about our lives rather than any serious walking. Started with good intentions and I hope to do more walking in the future but right here, right now – no walking involved today. We traveled 14 miles and not a single step was counted. Okay, 3600oddish was, but I didn’t walk a single step. We traveled down the Tinsley flight, and apart from moving my arms a bit, my legs didn’t walk anywhere. I noted...
Day 152 – The wrong way - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 24, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBDay 152 – I would say I haven’t walked a single step today but I have – Dave was snoring next to me when Willow started screaming at 7am. It was so early I must have been on autopilot and took them out Yes, I know all you keen ones get up at 5am and have done all the super important jobs before you go, do a full day’s work, and then come home and are a domestic god. Me – I’m not employed so I prefer the more leisurely approach; it matches my walking style and suits me to a T. I was going to...
Day 151 – Greener Grass - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 23, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MBDay 151 – Quite a lot of walkers about – no I wasn’t including myself. I’m well off the boil. You know a serious walker when they have sticks and backpacks. This only confirms my bimble tendencies, but as they say Rome wasn’t built in a day. Oh yeah, they also say the Tortoise won the race so you just think on. Willow and I are getting there, we’ve just passed the 450 miles banner. I never doubted we could, and will do it, but it’s only at a much slower pace than others, who I believe are al...
Day 150 – Kisses - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 22, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.51 MBDay 150 – Took Dave to work again today, nope not for an Eva appointment, but something was clearly sick on the boat. I was sick of my laptop, and it was a sick laptop, which had to go to the doctors. To the shop. The shop opened at 9.30am and was banging on the door, Okay I exaggerated that bit but I was there pretty much after it opened. The man’s question was ‘Are you alright?’ and I sobbed ‘No’. He said he’d look and if he couldn’t fix it no charge so that was a little ray of light. As ...
Day 149 –Annoyed - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 21, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MBI know you know what I’m talking about when I say – it should do this, but won’t – WHY WONT YOU DO IT? I’ve looked it up on Google and You tube and I purchased the same extension twice. I’ve spoken to my IT Guru and still, you sit there vexing me. Just sitting there looking smug with the progress reading ‘waiting to download’ Okay then – Do that then. Nothing stopping you. Why are you being so mean? Yes, that’s right, I’m having another laptop meltdown. It’s not until you start to write thi...
Day 148 – Dead Tree - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.26 MBDay 148 – First Day back on the job after a weekend away. When I say job I mean, back to walking because that is my job. Dave brings home the bacon and I stay at home to dog-sit or as I like to call it, Eva’s personal PA/Nurse and Willows personal NoooNoo0/Security Blanket. Would I have it any other way, probably not. But the conversation is slightly limited to watch me do this, stroke me, feed me and look at what I produced. Next door was talking to her cat and how me and the girls laughed ...
Day 147 – Back Home - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 19, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.75 MBDay 147 – We’re going home today, even though the boat is a 50-foot Narrowboat Cruiser Stern there appears to us to be more room at home. I think that’s because everyone knows their space. At Mums the girls just lay in the middle of the floor. I think in Willow’s case in hopes of bullying and tripping up Nanny. One more call of technical admin and then we’re heading home. Have to say,I’m not used to all this frolicking and I’ve got work to catch up on. We walk the girls on the return to th...
Day 146 – Gatherings - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 18, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.7 MBDay 146 - Hooray it’s here, the first family gathering in what seems like donkeys’ years. We’re all going out for a meal tonight. Last night didn’t go well, and Willow was all out of sorts, no problems with Eva, but Willow kept checking I was there, which I was. It was a bit like been tortured when you just drop off and they wake you up. Went to a jeweller in Louth, Lincolnshire with Mum to get my necklace repaired. It used to be my dads, and he had it made at these jewellers. Nice to be o...
Day 145 – Golf - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 17, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.88 MBI asked Dave to pack the day before because I wanted to pack the van up and meet him straight from work before we hit the motorway in rush hour. Pleasantly surprised that we managed to get the Friday Mad hour with little delay. Apart from the man in the Merc who didn’t release the traffic in his lane and slowed down and as his stopping distance was reduced by speed, he tried to swerve into the lane I was driving in. I was surprised about the fact that he thought two vehicles could fit into o...
Day 144 – Sayings - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 16, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.93 MBYou’ll never guess, wow, what a good guesser you are – your right it has been raining all day today. So, of course in turn it was raining for our walk. Gone are the keen days when I first started this challenge. I’m currently in the state of, make do and mend, and it will be what it will be. I’m sure there are some other sayings I could throw at it, but currently that’ll do for now pig – yep managed to throw a film reference in there as well. A veritable dictionary of use less quotes, of old...
Day 143 – Mowed Grass- Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 15, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.69 MBApril showers in May, it’s not cold, but the preference from both Willow and myself is that we would most definitely prefer it, if it, was just to ‘give over’ so we could get around our walk without becoming soggy sponges. The council authorities are out in force, two strimmers and one big mower. Having already had a run-in with them in the past, I don’t allow Willow to walk whilst their motors are still running for fear of stones being picked up. So, we wait and wait for the operator to tu...
Day 142 – Early Start - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 14, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MBGot a dog they said, it’ll be fun they said – what they didn’t say was that by getting a dog my focus for the rest of my days would be on poop. Walking at 5 am, I know some people enjoy it, some people like being up before the day has started and for others, the day is already underway. Me opinion is; are you mad – there is only one 5 o’clock unless you’re going on holiday, then no one minds getting up a 5 am. I woke up with a sniff, the most horriblist of horrible smells. I shot out of bed ...
Day 141 – Rainbow - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.86 MBDay 141 – Strange weather day today, it just can’t make up its mind if it raining or sunshine. It’s not cold but it’s certainly unpredictable. Looking at the clouds on the way down the locks big very angry and grey. Walking the other way is the blue and sunshine sky. It seems Willow and I will head into the storm. I may be overly metamorphosing our walk because 'the storm' almost sounds like we’re on the high seas and neither mine nor Willow's stomachs could take that to be fair. We do head ...
Day 140 – April Showers - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBShot out of bed like the boat was sinking the second I heard Willow break into her high pitch scream. Even so, I have to admit it’s nice to be out early, the dew was glistening on the grass and the day is afresh and ready to begin. Dave wanted his golf clubs so we had to go to the lock-up and dig them out. Dave hasn’t played golf for years and years and years so needless to say his golf clubs were buried at the back, way way back. Whilst working through the lock-up the heavens open, and quit...
Day 139 – Found a stick - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 11, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.68 MBUp and out early today, up early because Willow deems it so. Some people have a Cockrel, others call them roosters, but universally they all say cock-a-doodle-doo and are driven by an internal clock that no one can fathom out. Me, I don’t need a Cockrel we have a Willow, and she whines and screams; it’s a noise that just grates all the way through you like you’re the invisible person. It’s always best to get up before Willow gets her scream on, because its like a knee jerk reaction very simi...
Day 138 – Picnic Benches - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 10, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MBAnother busy day out walking on the towpath, it seems the volunteers for Canal and River Trust are back out playing now that restrictions are easing. They are digging and planting more trees and concrete bases for the positioning of the benches. Oodles of other people out walking about and everyone seems to be in a good mood. Apart from Willow, I think who appears to be most disgruntled. She spent a good portion of the walk hiding behind me. I’m unsure if she was implying that my stature wa...
Day 137 – Boring - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 09, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.59 MBAfter the excitement of the last couple of days, what with Drone flying https://youtu.be/U_2RLvILQl4 , Snake in the canal, and what seems to be becoming a pattern, the lost eggs of young birds. Today is positively a dull day. No dinosaurs or horses were seen. No Mr or Mrs. Lochness. No typhoon or typhoo was spotted or had. Willow and I just trotted and talked, mostly about our excitement about our impending release from this dead arm canal. Well, I chatted, Willow rubbed her face on the floo...
Day 136 – Playtime - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 08, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MBI have had such a fun day; I can’t remember the last time I was super excited to go out and play with my toys or just one in this instance. I worked hard on the podcast this morning and was ready well before being screamed at by Willow, who seems in a much better mood after last night rainfeast. It’s another one of those funny grey days, with rays of sunshine where it’s a gamble if I’m going to get soaked wet through, or indeed and this is my preferred option, get a suntan. Bimbled down the ...
Day 135 – Canine Cognitive Dysfunction (CCD)? - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 07, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.12 MBDay 135 – It always seems to be raining, almost like April Showers in May, suspect the Greenhouse effect is playing its part with this changing weather we’ve seen over the last couple of years. Willow’s behaviour, it’s getting worse, she’s so fearful of everybody and everything. She completely breaks down if I’m not around, even if Dave is. I am most certainly her security blanket. She has started barking at people for no reason other than they are behind her. Generally, the rule of thumb ...
Day 134 – Rumble - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 06, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MBAs I step outside with my big raincoat, with the sun beaming down and I know I’ve made the wrong choice and come back in to swap for my jacket. It’s a glorious day or is it. Willow and I walk down the locks and just as were having a photo session the drops start and persist getting faster and bigger. Willow bolts for the wasteland I can summarise that she finds eating rabbit poo a distraction from the rain beating down on her. We walk back over the soggy ground and no sooner do we get back t...
Day 133 – Family - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 05, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 8.29 MBSunday is Funday - Did I walk today, not in the greater sense of the word – no. Did I amble then the answer is; yes down to the field during the briefest time when it wasn’t raining and manage to get out to fly our new tiny drone. It’s like a big insect apart from faster and nosier. I flew up and out. Started freaking out a little when she was hovering over the water. My driving leaves a lot to be desired. It’s a bit jerky and abrupt but for a first go of not crashing, think I did very well ...
Day 132 – Horse - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 04, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 7.4 MBDay 132 – I’m not a big fan of walking in the rain but alas, got to be done. The fine drizzle stuff that gets you wet the moment you set foot outside. Willow doesn’t seem to notice but she isn’t back up to scratch. She’s feeling pretty much sorry for herself so I guess the weather suits the mood. Still walking little, often, and on lead. Willow is eating so much grass. I have no option but to stand and wait as it continues to pisstulate it down. A black and white giant breed dog eating gras...
Day 131 – Poorly Girl - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 03, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.54 MBMy Poor Baby Girl Willow is all squealy again, just like last time. When she pulled her neck when she was stretching. I guess aches and pains come to us all, mines my knees. Normally Willow sleeps all curled up in a ball. She has the ability to sniff her back feet and I haven’t joined in on that activity they don’t smell that great to be fair. She’s doing these little sobs and again I am totally useless. Of course, she’s done it so close the weekend so the opportunity to see a vet is pretty ...
Day 130 – Geese - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 02, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBTook Willow out first today, we bimbled down the locks and back. Last year there was no residential geese around this part of the canal. But they are definitely here now. They have moved in, unpacked their bags but seem to have forgotten the porty potty. I suspect they think that Willow will hoover up anything and everything and I hate to say it I really do but they, the geese are not far wrong. Willow is in her eliminate. These Geese make her day, not only do people leave food for geese, wh...
Day 129 – Sting - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
July 01, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.89 MBAs I wait for Willow who is busy frolicking in Dandelions chasing bees, which I’ve asked her not to, a lady walked past with these drop-dead boots. Not very practical for towpath walking but, if you like boots like me, you’d have appreciated them. I said to her ‘I really like your boots’ and she gave me a look like I have just thrown a deposit at her. I calculated she hadn’t heard me so I repeated the compliment and her face just beamed. She thanked me and continued. It got me deep thinking...
Day 128 – Fake - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 30, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.26 MBDay 128 – It all started out as a normal walk, doing our normal thing in the drizzle, which I didn’t tell Willow was happening, and by the time she found out, she was rainy moist anyway. There was a couple of people milling about, but generally, the green was ours. Willow Squatted - no not a wee but a number two, well actually it didn’t even make numbers, she squatted and didn’t do the do. People are watching expectedly, what do you do? There’s nothing there that needs picking up and as you...
Day 127 – Rain - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 29, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.63 MBWow Dave did not go to work today, what a naughty lad or so I thought until he said it was a Bank Holiday. Well, that’s all very well and good, you have a day of my darling but I question where are we all going to be when I get confused with what day of the week it is because Monday is now the new Sunday and Dave stays home. That’s what I find particularly confusing. It’s not like I know what day of the week it is under the best situations, but when you go throwing a free work day at me that...
Day 126 – Halti - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 28, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MBWillow spends 50 percent of her time, running at Eva and not a nice trot either. Like a train that is about to smash off the rails. I do not know how Eva put’s up with Willow. Poor Eva gave her an inch and now Willow has took a mile. It was after all Eva who taught Willow how to rough play ‘gonna bite your feet off’ ‘gonna bit your face off’ now because Eva rarely plays them ones anymore Willow is playing ‘chicken’ running full pelt at the Akita. I only hope Eva continues to manage to move i...
Day 125 – Jacket - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 27, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.95 MBWent out for a family fun time today, so inappropriately dressed. I donned a T-shirt, jumper and jacket and boy was I hot. Who knew the sun was doing its shining thing. Loads of people that’s who, all those people walking round in their T-shirts. All those people biking around the place in shorts but no one thought to tell me. Well yes, that would have been odd, someone knocking on the boat and saying “I’ve just come over to let you know what the weather was. Even though you’ve got windows i...
Day 124 – Egg - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 26, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.92 MBDay 124 – My walking stats aren’t looking fantastic, the mile marker is catching up with me and I fear I’m slacking in the pack. I’m hoping that the walking gets better when we go out this weekend. Good to know they can’t go backwards so they can only go on and upwards. We've decided to head north. Not so many lock flights, less walking – more river travel, bigger mechanical locks. It’s going to be interesting because I have got extra junk in my trunk this year. Thus far I have walked 378 m...
Day 123 – Speedboat - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 25, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.09 MBThe fisherpeople were out in force today, one in each pound as we went down the locks. When we have been out narrowboating we see all manner of boats and every year there is always a speed boat. Doing what speed boat’s do, speeding. Personally, I think I would get sea sick all that bobbing but it does look like a lot of fun. What I didn’t think I would see so early in the season is a speedboat in one of the pounds. It was hitting a super plodding speed but I suspect for its size that could ...
Day 122 – Penny - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 24, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.59 MBMy website is dying again, yes I know it’s happened before – build a website they said, it’ll be easy they said. I’ve run out of memory and now have to delete and re-upload compressed files. Talk about do over – what a choreache. Fed up with doing that, I take the dogs out, for a breath of fresh air and sometimes to clear my head. I always take the girls out separately it’s just easier when negotiating eventualities. Together they just like children wind each other up and seem to always suf...
Day 121 – Lumber Jacks - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 23, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBDay 121 - As Willow and I strode out the gate, it looked like a car park. Surely not, well yes it was. It is a pedestrian path, you know the path that used to flood each time it rained. Until the Canal and River Trust (CRT) ruined my fun and paid some party poopers to raise it. Now when it rains we can’t use the gate because the flood is now redirected in front of it. Back to the Carpark which was formerly known as the pedestrian area. Council car after council truck after council lifty arm...
Day 120 - Camera Back - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 22, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.51 MBDay 120 – It really is something when you put entertainment in front of your own dignity. What I mean by that is knowing that 1000 of viewers will be watching Willow Cam on her youtube channel. Knowing that Willow tends to walk behind me. So by process of elimination, my dear Watson, you know that my hiney is going to be bottom bobbing on show. When I say thousand of views I actually mean all of Willow’s 45 subscribers. Willow's point of view from today is up as I said on Youtube. It’s about...
Day 119 – Not again - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 21, 2021 09:00 - 8 minutes - 7.69 MBDay 119 – It was cool enough to walk the block again, I managed to get out early and before Mr Sunshine had got his Ray on. Well, when I say early, it wasn’t early to some. Let’s put it this way – would I rather Dave would have got up, at the time yes, but upon reflection having achieved the 4 miles of the block I’m glad I did it. So how early is early? 9 am, I know, only the really keen get up at this time on a Sunday morning, Willow and I. Kept my eyes on Willow, even the eyes in the back...
Day 118 – Marie Celeste - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 20, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.61 MBDay 118 - It’s turning into the Marie Celeste in the Marina, Hoards, and hoards of boats went out today, Okay, three to be honest with you but it felt like more, maybe because they were all wide beams. As I took each of the girls out, in turn, I tangled in the chatting and locking. I never ever do the locks on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. In my opinion, they are not nice locks, they are heavy and stubborn, so I give that pleasure to Dave. But not today, here I am wheezing and puffing ope...
Day 117 – Dirty Girl - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 19, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.99 MBWillow met the Chicken Foot Gang today, ran over to them like their reputation had preceded itself. Luckily for me, they were empty-handed and I didn’t have to play bad cop again. Willow certainly made an impression, not being so in your face rubbing as Eva, it was said that she was dare I say it, the favourite. Let’s keep that between ourselves. The pounds are getting low, generally, the dogs just lean over and drink the cocktail canal water. I know it’s dirty, but given the choice, the gi...
Day 116 – The Block - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 18, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.65 MBDay 116 – I have certainly got a spring in my step – the sun always puts me in a good mood. I take Willow out for a bimble and we just didn’t stop. I didn’t know I was going to continue but did anyway. You know we do the walking Bingo challenge and I knew exactly where I would find a hill. Actually, Sheffield according to George Orwell is hilly and built on Seven Hills, but I think they are arguing about that now. But the fact is there are inclines everywhere. So, to find a hill in Sheffield...
Day 115 – Crown Jewels - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 17, 2021 10:00 - 9 minutes - 8.35 MBI have certainly got a spring in my step – the sun always puts me in a good mood. I take Willow out for a bimble and we just didn’t stop. I didn’t know I was going to continue but did anyway. You know we do the walking Bingo challenge and I knew exactly where I would find a hill. Actually, Sheffield according to George Orwell is hilly and built on Seven Hills, but I think they are arguing about that now. But the fact is there are inclines everywhere. So, to find a hill in Sheffield shouldn’t...
Day 114 – Lunchtime - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 16, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.21 MBDay 114 – Hoards of people are just flopped down on the route. Walkers and people from the surrounding office blocks. Taking a load off, in the glorious sunshine. Anyone would think that I was running a festival here, wish I was, I’d have made a fortune apart from no one was adhering to masks and distance, so I’d have gained the fortune and lost it in one fair swoop, as I paid for the fine for not following government guidelines. But who am I kidding I’m not holding a festival, all I’m doing...
Day 113 – Trees - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 15, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBDay 113 - Willow and I find the Canal and River Trust volunteers planting trees and pruning the wooded area as we set out on our bimble. Last time the volunteers planted new samplings the council came along and mowed the grass and apparently just mowed over the very young new trees, never to grow older, now kindling, what would have been trees given half the chance. I’m not sure how the grass cutter didn’t see them, but see them they did not. The trees they’ve put in today and more sizeable ...
Day 112 – Towpath - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 14, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBDay 112 - Willow is such a strange puppy and I do believe she is getting worst with age. She has never been a brave dog, some may say a Cowardly lion, not me of course I love her dearly. She is steadily getting more and more clingy and I wonder if it’s the breed trait, or is it the fact that I am always at home and never leave her. Her anxiety levels seem to be spiking. Is it an age thing? Do dogs get dementia? never tell her I said that. Is this me being a hypochondriac fur mummy again. I’v...
Day 111 – Slush Road - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 13, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.45 MBDay 111 – Clearly, Willow has been eating something she shouldn’t have. How do I know? It’s not the eyes in the back of my head. It’s not my sixth sense tingling. It’s not even that I found her with the evidence hanging out of her mouth. It’s the aftermath. The evidence just racks up. The complete and utter inability to go longer than 2 hours without rushing outside. The ability to splurge everywhere, don’t worry I’ll not go to graphical – I’ll spare Willow the embarrassment and you the disg...
Day 110 – Bad Owner - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 12, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.46 MBOut chatting again and one of the marine neighbours reminded me of, ‘you must remember that time Willow chased our dogs’. Yes, all too well, when we thought our dogs would do as they are told and used to walk them off lead near the marina. That doesn’t happen anymore, and also now we know better. The girls do listen without distraction but you stick a distraction in and you’ve lost them. You could wave a chicken foot under their nose and unless it’s the thing that has their focus you might a...
Day 109 – Boat's Locking - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 11, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.85 MBWillow and I sauntered out. Another nice and busy day. It’s nice to see the boat’s coming up the lock again, three today and one yesterday. Yesterday’s narrowboat got banked on silt coming up so the marina community went down to help refloat it. That was nice. Today was two narrowboats and a wide beam GRP although, to be honest, it did look like a posh coastal boat – had patio windows in it and everything. Helped closed one of the gates. If you ever come up this way; know this, the gates are...
Day 108 – Chicken Feet - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 10, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 8.07 MBDay 108 - Up early again today, had to take Eva for her monthly injection, also had to take Dave to work as I’m having the van. Whilst we were bundling dogs into the van, Willow came too– she would only bark the place down if left on her own and it’s far too early for that. Shook it up for the lunchtime walk, took Eva out first, and wasn’t it her lucky day. Do you remember I said we see regulars when we’re walking roughly the same people doing the same thing day in, day out. One of our regu...
Day 107 – Princess and the Pea - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000Miles
June 09, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBThe day after the pub. We met a lovely ‘Mauve and Me’ today as we boated out of Victoria Quays after the freedom of going to the pub. Louise, no not me the Mauve’s mummy is also called Louise, but she knows Robbie Cummings. Anyways Louise said she’d seen our video going into the Chesterfield, Oh the shame!! Who put the brick wall there? Mauve was super excited to be out walking, she’s 8 now the same age as Willow and considerably better behaved. We cruised home down the Sheffield Canal, down...