A Literal Spring in your Step

I love when you see adults walking like children, all swinging arms and lolloping gait. I bet it makes them feel happy and carefree, like when you skip anywhere. It's nigh on impossible not to feel cheered by a spontaneous skip. Try it, you'll see.

That is all. Back to your business.



"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Cornwall Rambling

We were staying in Mawgan Porth and where we were located was a 10 minute walk to the beach and a 30 min walk to the little village for a lovely cream tea.

The view from our windows

Our little and luverly cottage

The shortcut towards the beach

The Big One!

Mawgan Porth Bay

The Big One on the Beach

Jumping for Joy!

I'm sure you can understand we've been a bit slow at mentally engaging with the hustle and dry bustle of London since we got back. The fresh air and space was so revitalising.

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

George Eliot

Night Walking

c/o wetbehindtheears

It is 11:40pm and I have just got in. Tonight we had our first dress rehearsal and also our first audience, of sorts. As the piece is a promenade style the director chose to open our dress rehearsals to friends and family of the cast. It was immensely helpful and very interesting.

On the way home. in my rush to get back to my digs, I inadvertently jumped on the wrong bus. Tired as I was it took me about 20 minutes to realise I had no idea where I was. In fact initially I thought that I had simply missed my stop, so got off. Only then did I realise that in the dark I recognised nothing. Thank goodness for iPhones as I could use the Gmap and see where I had ended up...turned out I was about a mile from where I needed to be.

I quickly worked out a route and set off in the right direction. Despite it being night, me being on my own and having no clue of the area, I really enjoyed it.  I am not a stupid girl and know to keep to residential areas, cross the road if someone is coming towards me etc. It was a beautifully mild evening and I was in comfy shoes and despite being alert, very happy.

When I was younger I used to walk at night a lot. I would sneak out of the house and walk around my area in the early hours. I have always been a night owl and loved the quiet, the calm and the peace of being on my own, walking in the streetlit dark.

On a few occasions, when I was staying at friend's houses I would sneak out there too and would walk around their villages. I'm sure this would strike fear into my friend's mothers if they had known but I genuinely longed for the peaceful solitude at the end of the day.

I had forgotten my walks until this evening when I felt a familiar drop of my shoulders. I was able to process the noise and clatter of the day and I was entirely on my own, blanketed by the dark.

Tonight, as I turned into the final road and was minutes walk from my digs I thought how much I had missed my night walks and how, although I am a very different person now, I still respond so strongly to that time, on my own, working through the day I just had.

I might just have to get the wrong bus again...

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."  

~Vincent Van Gogh

A Spring Sunday Walk

The Big One took me to a local beauty spot today so we could have a lovely, sunny walk. It was a beautiful Spring day and despite being tired it really filled me with energy...but my legs will hurt tomorrow...

That's The Big One in the woods...

"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."

- Thom Gunn

Booked!

c/o anglotopia

Today me and The Big One booked a mini break in April to celebrate another year together. After much debate and website trawling we decided on a beautiful looking boutique B&B in the Southern Lakes of the Lake District.

We will go on loooong walks, read, I will knit, we can try some Archery and eat and drink lovely scrumptious local delights.

Thank goodness we don't have long to wait as mentally today I think we were both already there.

"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand."

~Leonardo da Vinci

Sunday Wanderings

What a lovely day today was! I had been working til the early hours so woke up feeling shattered.  In an attempt to shake myself awake I headed to Islington to my new favourite yarn shop, Loop in search of a certain size needle.
 

I LOVE that shop, the yarn is displayed in such an enticing way and the staff are soo nice.  In fact while in there I mentioned I was having to replace all my long circular needles with  shorter lengths for hats, one of the ladies there explained that there was a way of using the needles I already had. It's called 'The Magic Loop Method' and it is magic!  She took the time to show me by demonstrating it on the sock she was knitting and explained that it could save me a lot of money replacing needles. Result!

Feeling full of sunshine and new knitting knowledge I decided to walk home (4 miles), I only made 2 miles as I was so tired but managed to absorb a lot of sunny, leafy London views on my journey.

"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."

-The Duchess, Alice in Wonderland