The Walking Blog
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Fear of heights on Lundy Island
How to visit Lundy and have a holiday that is physically and mentally refreshing, rather than draining, and allows for a level of challenge and adventure pitched to avoid both boredom and terror?
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Tips for choosing a challenge event.
Choosing the right event can make all the difference between a great day and a frustating slog that doesn’t achieve your goals. So what should you look for?
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Our year’s foraging
It’s been a great year for foraging but, as always, it’s the stuff you don’t manage to do that sticks in the mind.
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Arboretum
Saturday brought practically the first sun of the new year – so, before you could say ‘quick – find your shoes’ we were through the door and off for a bit of outdoor activity. The idea was to try some gentle outdoor running after a long period of being constrained by poor weather and (if…
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100 days
Here’s a great idea if you’re looking to get motivated to become more active in 2011. Running gurus John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield have launched a 100-day challenge.
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Challenge
The focus has shifted a bit recently. Whereas in late summer and autumn we were out almost daily on the footpaths close to home, obsessed with foraging, and never content unless we were coming home with a backpack filled with hedgerow fruit or nettles for cooking, now our attention has been caught by a new…
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Foraging and the law
Yes – we did promise that we’d said our last words on the subject for a while, and that’s nearly true, since the purpose of this post is to draw readers’ attention to a useful article on the BBC Magazine website this morning.
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Looping the HOOP
If you’re reading along in an RSS reader (and, by the way, if you are we’re very grateful for your interest) you may find it worth your while to pop along to the site and have a look at the latest walk that we have added.
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Wetland
Our local common is maybe nine-tenths close-mown grass. But the remaining tenth, the bit that isn’t a playing field, an exercise area for dogs, a play park or a BMX track, is a precious bit of wildlife habitat being maintained in the face of scrub, ubiquitous litter and threats of invasive development.
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The last word on foraging
Normal service will resume shortly and this blog will return to its proper subject, walking, rather than lingering on things that you can do while walking, such as foraging enticing free foodstuffs out of the hedgerows.
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Foraging for nettles
And so our autumn experiment in wild food continues – with nettles. It’s all very well picking fruit, and almost a civic duty to collect blackberries, but when you venture into weeds – and aggressive ones to boot – that’s a whole new level of experimentation. But it’s an urge that won’t die, so we…
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Sloe gin and rosehip tea
Blackberry and apple crumble. Blackberry and apple with cream or yoghurt in a bowl. Blackberry and apple mousse.