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Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 213 – Weekly updates - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 course, I do why would you/I do som...2021-07-2906 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 154 – Friends - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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, more impressive surroundings. We pass some very beautiful sea-going boats. What we fondly c...2021-07-2606 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 151 – Greener Grass - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 already headin...2021-07-2306 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 150 – Kisses - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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.2021-07-2205 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 149 –Annoyed - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesI 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 things down and...2021-07-2107 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 147 – Back Home - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 t...2021-07-1906 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 146 – Gatherings - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 je...2021-07-1807 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 143 – Mowed Grass- Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesApril 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 turn off the motors...2021-07-1508 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 141 – Rainbow - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 down the locks under the...2021-07-1307 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 139 – Found a stick - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesUp 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 similar to the sound of a dog...2021-07-1106 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 138 – Picnic Benches - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesAnother 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 was big enough to hide a Great Dane, bu...2021-07-1006 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 137 – Boring - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesAfter 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 floor like normal, like all other walks before and...2021-07-0908 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 136 – Playtime - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesI 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...2021-07-0808 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 134 – Rumble - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesAs 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...2021-07-0608 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 132 – Horse - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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...2021-07-0407 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 131 – Poorly Girl - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesMy 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 prett...2021-07-0307 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 130 – Geese - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesTook 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, which Willow also assumes is for...2021-07-0205 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 129 – Sting - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesAs 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, yes, I’m g...2021-07-0106 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 128 – Fake - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 know I am an av...2021-06-3006 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 127 – Rain - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesWow 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 thr...2021-06-2906 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 126 – Halti - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesWillow 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 in time. Becau...2021-06-2805 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 125 – Jacket - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesWent 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 in your boat and a hatch...2021-06-2707 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 123 – Speedboat - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesThe 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...2021-06-2506 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 122 – Penny - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesMy 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 suffer a case of the ‘sele...2021-06-2407 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 121 – Lumber Jacks - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 ar...2021-06-2308 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 120 - Camera Back - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 an hour and a half long. Yes I...2021-06-2205 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 119 – Not again - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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...2021-06-2108 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 117 – Dirty Girl - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesWillow 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 girls would rather drink out of the...2021-06-1908 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 116 – The Block - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 shouldn’...2021-06-1808 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 115 – Crown Jewels - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesI 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 be too...2021-06-1709 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 113 – Trees - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 and unless the grass cutters ‘eyes are...2021-06-1506 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 112 – Towpath - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 fu...2021-06-1405 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 111 – Slush Road - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 disgusting truth. I stood with my hands on my hips...2021-06-1308 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 110 – Bad Owner - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesOut 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 as well be talking to yoursel...2021-06-1208 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 109 – Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesWillow 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 piggin heavy. So much so...2021-06-1107 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 108 – Chicken Feet - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 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 ou...2021-06-1008 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 107 – Princess and the Pea - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesThe 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 the very much underused Industrial past canal...2021-06-0907 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 106 – Pubday - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 106 - Pubdaytoday. The Lockdown in the UK is easing and we are allowed to meet up to 6 people or two households outside as the shops, including pubs open. It also happens to be Paul's big 0 birthday so the timing is perfect.
Having snuck out at the weekend I wait, I wait for Dreamcatcher to turn up, as I follow them into Victoria Quays. They, the birthday boy, Natasha, and Dreamcatcher haven’t been out in over a year. They missed the gap when lockdown eased briefly last year, some may say too early, but we didn’t, w...2021-06-0806 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 105 – Rats – Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 105 - What is going on with the weather, one-minute glorious sunshine, and the next snow or maybe light hail. It was weird, we did spend some time outside, playing football and telling Willow not to eat anything. As for the mattress that someone had kindly left, it was like a magnet to a certain black, white and green Dane. I dread to think which smells she was heading for but heading for them she was. Let’s not talk about that anymore it makes me gip just a little bit. Really and truly, I dread to think.
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Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 104 – Private Garden - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 104 - Dave worked on the Electrics this morning, in hopes of stopping our flash. The lights flicker for …. No, no idea why they do but Dave is working through the process of elimination which, to be honest requires much more patience than I would have.
We have had our first invite of the year, which seems really odd because it’s April, we’re going to the pub on Monday as the Lockdown restriction ease. Something to look forward to and also an excuse to sneak out of the Marina down the cut.
We all en...2021-06-0606 minWalk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 103 – It - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 103 - Set off a little later than expected today and actually I took Eva out first. Returned to the boat and you would have thought a looter was on the boat or Cruella Deville was stealing Willows patches the amount of racket that was being made by little Miss Abandoned. Eva walks for about ½ mile which is about 20 minutes. I know that isn’t a very good pace, but I don’t set it - Eva has to bimble and sniff every blade of grass out there, it’s very time-consuming. Today someone said they wanted to stroke her, Ev...2021-06-0508 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 95 – Nanny - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 95 – Sorry again not much walking today, but a busy day nonetheless, first another Eva vet visit. I know it is a shame we don’t have shares in the place, but a complete and utter fortuitous blessing that we do have pet insurance. Oh, boy haven’t we just kicked the arse out of it. Giant breed dog, Giant breed dog vet bills. I know some say that dog insurance is a rip-off but we always get it. I would whole heartily suggest everyone gets pet insurance. Because hopefully you won’t need it and hopefully you will see it a...2021-05-2807 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 92 – Angelic - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 92 – Was called into action by the screaming black and white beast, and off we went bimbling away. Okay I was on my own, standing on the grass whilst Willow rubbed her face on the grass, and I tried to pretend she wasn’t mine until she ran up to me and headbutted me in the thigh. Which was very close to headbutting me in the soreness and taking me out. I’ll say something for Willow, a bull in a china shop ain’t got nothing on her. Let’s consider that as one of the only two people on...2021-05-2507 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 90 – Getting Ready - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 90 – After my day out yesterday to the hospital, I know living the high life. I didn’t really go out today. Dave was tinkering with the lights on the boat because they have been tinkering for over a year and progressively getting worst. We are getting ready to go out for the season so all these boat jobs are coming to a head. Buy a narrowboat they said, it’ll be fun they said. Well, we didn’t buy a narrowboat, Dave built it. For the majority it is fun, but it is also a never-ending process of fixing...2021-05-2304 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 88 – We’re Back - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 88 – It’s a beautiful day today I feel the need to get outside and enjoy some of this wonderful sunshine. Life is good. It’s just the normal short bimble down the locks. I have to say we do tend to get a reaction when we walk down a street or in this case a towpath.
Dogs bark I get it. The dogs kept barking, yep I get that to. What I don’t get is why the dogs are not being corrected. Why are the dogs running to the end of their leads and dinging back? Th...2021-05-2106 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 72 – Isolation - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 72 - Dave’s second day of working from home, the narrowboat. He says he doesn’t like working on the boat because he feels isolated. Honey, I’m on the boat on my own for most of the time! Guess he likes to get out there and interact with others, particularly those of an engineering persuasion. I guess I’m used to being on my own, and are very much able to self-entertain I can safely say even though I do not work, I bring no income into our home, I am always busy and I’d even go as far...2021-05-0504 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 70 – Thief in the night - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 70 - A kind of subdued day today, Dave wanted to DIY. Couldn’t go out and get the right stuff as we’re shielding. By default, I put that those idle hands to good use. Got me a little helper on the digital side of things. I wouldn’t say Dave a natural IT Guy but he muddled along, alright, s’pose.
The dogs seemed to know we were busy so stayed out of our way and running in their dreams. It’s difficult for them this restriction of exercise. They still go out briefly but it’s not w...2021-05-0306 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 68 – Collection Point - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 68 - SSDD (Stephen King) Same Day as yesterday, avoiding people and diving in hedgerows. A brief glimpse of the sky and then back into my burrow. It appears that I am destined to stay down this rabbit hole. Rather than keep typing about nothing I’ve asked Lisa to keep the group active, after all, she has a marathon to train for. Care to share your training plans? Me, I’m avoiding people and picking up poop, it ain’t the high life and I greatly look forward to the release of the 12th April. Dave has just pooped...2021-05-0105 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 66 – She’s fine - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 66 – Thank you all for all your kind wishes for a speedy recovery, clearly, it’s working because the Drama Queen is fine. Nothing that a couple of rest days and not bounding around like an idiot won’t cure. The tigger impression isn’t helping, it comes to us all, the realisation that we are getting older. No, not me, I’m not getting older, I shall stay forever young and, in that respect, I think Willow is taking after me.
I do wish we’d have saved that 50 quid for an emergency appointment. I almost feel conned...2021-04-2905 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 65 – Poor puppy - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 65 - Couldn’t sleep again, it’s getting quite bad, isn’t it? Combination of thoughts and Dave doing his impression of a train. Just because one shoulder is not on the mattress does not mean you are on your side. We are all clear about that, aren’t we? Good to know.
I spent the early hours of the morning bashing away at the laptop. No, don’t worry, didn’t wake Dave up. He slept through that earthquake - you remember when it hit Sheffield in 2008? No Dave doesn’t either. I thought the house was subs...2021-04-2809 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 64 – How low can you go - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 64 – How low can you go - Walk 1000 Miles a Year
It’s a struggle, to say the least, to park the beast anywhere due to size and width, yes size is important. Fully aware that cars are getting bigger including the posh electric hybrids. Was off out and about today and trying to park the beast is a right pain in the curb. Midday parking on a busy road, traffic zooming and me trying to reverse park. I felt like I was on my test let me tell you. It took me three goes to pass anyw...2021-04-2706 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 63 - Button - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 63 – What a weird night. The boat was the wrong way in and so we can get out of the bow, which we can’t do with the dogs when the bed is down, we slept up the other end. It really turned the dogs upside down. Willow kept screaming at me at regular intervals throughout the night, I think to make sure I was there because it wasn’t like her back leg was hanging off or anything although to be fair by the end of the night/morning I was pretty much-taking requests.
Dave, bless him go...2021-04-2608 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 62 - Nothing - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 62 – Walking early is always the best way to go. Up before being screamed at, out and off we went, Willow and I. A little frosty start but it’s all good – when you get walking ya get a dab on, no need for any chills to be multiplying. I really enjoyed the walk, and yet I sit here talking to you thinking ‘well what happened?’ the sweet answer is simply nothing.
We saw lots and lots of fisherman, must have been a match on and whilst I didn’t put Willow on the lead, I’m always a littl...2021-04-2507 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 61 - Big Day - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 61 – Today was a big day, no we weren’t told we was allowed out to play, I suspect Willow naughtiness has spread nationwide hence us all being grounded. Is that what you call it? We got grounded in our house, me I used to climb out the window and back in, Yeah – let’s hear it for flat roof porches. Don’t tell my mum that, she thinks I’m an angel. Did you call it “gated” or “Coventry” but I think that’s when people didn’t talk to you. I’m not sure what Coventry did to be so ignored mind. Whe...2021-04-2407 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 60 - Clock Stops - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 60 – So, we didn’t walk today. Yes, I took the dogs out, I’m not that cruel, we bimbled down the locks and back. The guilt hit just about the time it was starting to get dark, so we all went out, the whole boathold and the dogs had much more fun. More than I could have ever created on my own. Much biting each other’s faces off and feet was had.
Willow even found time to eat a dead fish that someone had lobbed in the bushes, because to be honest I don’t think even...2021-04-2305 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 58 - Wind - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 58 - Another short walk today but like I’ve said from the beginning, it isn’t a sprint it’s a marathon. Not that I would ever consider doing either of those to be fair. My favourite season is autumn, and it felt like autumn today, a very blustery autumn. For half the walk I was tuned out with my ear phones on, and I sometimes feel that not really concentrating on the walk I miss out on, well not on nature, because as you know that doesn’t come near us when Willow is about. How to word it...2021-04-2106 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 57 - Feet - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 57 - What a busy day today, couple of appointments, running around and achieving nothin. Well, when I say nothing it looks like I achieved loads, by the photos but actually I cheated I just took a lot of photos of our feet on different terrain. The Challenge to photograph us walking over different surfaces. Willow was miffed because she was off playing, zoomies, jumping up tigger style, trying to become one with the grass and I just kept calling her over to photograph her feet. It did make me laugh, her bemused reaction, like I didn’t have a...2021-04-2006 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 56 - Trumpty Trump - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 56 – I killed our website late last night. I don’t know what happened, I think it is something to do with code. Didn’t sleep well, got up early again. Oh No it’s Okay you stay in bed you ‘bread winner’ you. I’ll do my stay-at-home fur mummy bit. Didn’t wake up in a good mood.
Took Willow out again and left Eva with her Dad, he’ll take her out when he gets up. Rang my SOS, who somewhat calmed me down so was able to get into the walk. Did take my headphones but...2021-04-1905 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 55 - Don't Eat Dogs - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 55 – Another Early start today, I don’t know why I got up, and whilst Dave still slumbers on, rather than be quiet, I went out. Willow certainly looked surprised and a little miffed she missed out on yelling in my face.
Took my headphones out and headed round the block with Willow, clearly the pattern dictates that for me it’s easier to walk early before I get heavily distracted by anything else.
Spring is coming I can feel it – went out with my little jacket and even had to take my jumper off, got a ri...2021-04-1806 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 54 - A little Jaunt - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 54 – Just a little jaunt today, still distracted by the laptop making a website, that is all coming together nicely. So that’s a week of laptop work really. It just takes my breath away, that I have actually managed to keep walking and recording, our walks for very nearly two months. My staying power, all be it wobbly, has gobsmacked me. Took Eva for her little half a mile, didn’t feel bad because yesterday highlighted her limitations. I can definitely see her abilities or inabilities, little and often - I hate to think of her as getting old #b...2021-04-1704 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 53 - Spelling Bee - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 53 – Spelling bee continues – Actually was rather keen to go for a walk today, had my chickens in a row and Willow nearly ate a seagull, later, I’ll get to it later. So, did a bit of head scratching, think I’m getting the hang of it. I would say it’s a labour of love but to be honest it’s been a steep learning curve and I am super stubborn and will not be beaten. Spell no, I can’t do that but my strengths lie elsewhere in waffle and stubbornness, those are my super powers.
I snuck...2021-04-1607 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 52 Can you Spell - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 52 – Woke up with a spring in my step – I know hold me back because I’m coming for you. Yeah, again not sure where I was going with that, but I was at it, unsure what the it was but I was feeling good and had all my chickens lined up. Would you like me to get the point? Not sure I have one other than to say, much better frame of mind.
Didn’t touch my troubling thoughts contained within the laptop – got up, sort out the bed. Did domestic chores. Had my breakfast and reflected...2021-04-1508 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 50 - Rabbit Warren - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 50 – Rabbit Warren – Walk 1000 Miles in a Year
Have you ever spent the day with your head in the laptop, concentrating with the occasional interruption from her Royal Highness Willow, of course you haven’t, your lucky enough not to have Willow. Worth noting Eva never bothers me and would sit there crossed legged for three days before she asked anything, for herself. But Willow nudges me occasionally and I go out automatically on auto pilot because my head is still in the laptop trying to figure out why it won’t do what I want it to do. O...2021-04-1307 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 49 - Time - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 49 – Today I got up and went for a walk, that quick, that easy didn’t think about it just went. And I think when I go at late lunchtime, I know it’s coming. Normally by the time it comes round I have my head in something concentrating and I kind of resent being interrupted. Weird I know, I resent myself – no not like that. Whereas going this morning I didn’t think about it, just went and hadn’t started on something else. What time do you walk?
It was cold this morning, I warmed up, once I g...2021-04-1206 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 48 - Are you Made - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 48 – Are you mad! Who walked today? Okay Irene walked today but let’s be fair she is keen as mustard and has some, quite simply excellent views up in North Yorkshire. How far did you get Irene? Anyone else?
It seems to be a battle of the elements today; we’re holding a nice stead 23 degrees (roughly 76F) on the boat. After a big fat discussion today, every day is indeed a school day, Fahrenheit was named after a German Dude who invented the scale, did you know that? Mr Weather person says it’s 0 degrees (32F) outsi...2021-04-1106 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 47 - Blue Moon - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 47 – Blue Moon – Walk 1000 Miles a year
I never really wanted to walk in a routine and yet here I am walking at roughly the same time of day, walking roughly the same kind of route. You know yourself when that starts to happen you’re going to see the regulars. The old couple who walk arm in arm. The fisherman who is apparently called a stalker, because he walks up and down the canal, no I didn’t know that fisher people could be called stalkers without the police being called, but it true. Like any hunter h...2021-04-1007 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 46 - Stalactites - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 46 - Willow and I only found two Snow Angels, this afternoon, across at Deep Lock on the Sheffield Canal. We walked half of the block walk, which was a good 3 miles and one of the first walks we started doing at the beginning of this challenge.
The whole Boat hold went out again after dark, it was still freezing or ‘nesh’ as Dave likes to call it. Nature dropped a surprise; Dave found an ice stalactite (or could have been stalagmite - always get them confused). Sweetly he gave it to Eva who trotted off with it l...2021-04-0906 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 45 - Reflections - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 45 – Another cold one and another day I didn’t venture outside. I’m building a website. I know!! Me building a website – get a load of me, well of course you will because your all be rushing to my websites for wonderful tips of how to moan about walking, how to come up with a very powerful excuse to not walk. These excuses and more will all of course be available on my website free of charge for you. Because you’re my favourite – don’t tell the others, just between me and you.
So what was the reason...2021-04-0806 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 44 - A Big Mile - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 44 – A little mile, or was it a little mile? We only walked a mile today but maybe it was a great big mile. In case you’re wondering it was A great Big Mile. We did it, according to the official #walk1000miles challenge we have walked more then your average Briton has in a year. Oh yeah, we reached 200 miles of completing the same walk every day for the last 44 days staying local, which was Mud, Towpath, Busy Road, Concrete, Busy Roundabout, Carpark, Grassy area, Mud and Towpath. We have only ever seen 2 of the weirs on the...2021-04-0704 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 43 Spoilt Lovelies Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 43 – And the snow has fallen which in turn means I find myself again, hiding on the boat. It is really icy cold, but I would prefer to see the pretty scenes from inside the boat. Of course, I took the dogs out. I could see that look in Willows eye, somewhat reminding me of Laurel and Hardy – “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me into” mocking me as if I’m not going to finish or keep up this #walk1000miles challenge. Well Willow dearest I am, I’ll get it tomorrow. You see today is a perfect exampl...2021-04-0605 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 42 - Disgusting - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 42 – Seriously what is that saying, where the ice winds will blow, we shall have snow. Blooming icy freeze in the breeze. Luckily enough whilst it tried it never did stay – I’m putting that down to Eva and I chanting ‘No snow you must go’ and poof, just like that it #clickfingers it was gone. Your very welcome. Eva’s walk as previously described was a freeze breeze and she wasn’t really chanting, I just said that because I didn’t want to appear to be a loner. Besides Eva Loves snow.
Willow walk was more a battle of...2021-04-0505 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 41 Don't Lick That - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 41 – Somebody said it was going to snow, I said “no, don’t want it” I wish I had openly accepted that it would or might. I fear because of my need to fight the forces of nature Karma came along and put the record straight.
It was raining when I took Eva out. It was raining when I bought Eva home. It continued to rain when I went out with Willow and just as I was feeling pretty sorry for myself, I nearly slipped a disc skimming across the quagmire of mud sleekness that was formally known as...2021-04-0405 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 40 - Licking - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 40 – Oh the joys of it being a quiet walk day everyone is at work and we are mid Lockdown. The towpath is clear, yes of course there is still mud but it doesn’t look like a splat party and with little traffic the walk just seems to breeze by. The diversion from the accident and then the high-water levels was gone, so we didn’t have to dodge any cars.
It would have been pleasant, but for a certain someone insists on licking a certain something. Do let me know if you want me to go...2021-04-0305 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 39 - Photo Shoot - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 39 – The snow has pretty much gone and having already walked out with Eva, it’s fair to say that the towpath is in a much better state. The slush has gone and the drier day’s mean the slip slide of the muddy, slushy towpaths are much easier to manage. I think my mood or certainly the desire to walk is very weather dependant – now, don’t get me wrong I’ll walk in rain, snow, wind – after all it’s just about being dressed properly but it’s a complete biscuit when ‘your stay local’ (lockdown) walk is just impassable.2021-04-0206 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 38 - Snow Eating - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 38 – Winter is still upon us, frozen snow and my personal favourite slush and let’s not forget the theme of this winter Mr Mud. It’s going to be another glorious walk of trying to stay on your feet whilst tip toeing around the mud slides and generally trying not to get to dirty or wet. Initially took Eva out and wow I do believe she is getting slower, I’m sure she would have been the normal speed if she hadn’t tried to eat all the snow in sight. She sure does love the snow and we ended u...2021-04-0105 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 37 - Snow Angel- Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 37 – Woke up to a winter’s scene, clearly Winter is not giving up without a fight. Needed to take Dave into work today as I needed the van. Skidded and slide - boat steering stood me in good stead, we were perfectly fine, I am an amazing driver. I actually can't remember the last time I drove the van in snow. Only got stuck once, I was hoofed out by three burley Steel workers - my hero's. Good time to reiterate I am an amazing driver.
Walked the dogs about lunch time, in the snow again. Thes...2021-03-3105 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 36 - Lost the Pig - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 36 – Been a busy Day today – Took Eva to vets, dropped van with Dave, walked home. Sun was out and I was in a good mood until - Willow started being a pig – ate everything including bread and something else, don’t ask. She ran off into a bush which I can only assume she was chasing something, needless to say I don’t run as fast as her. Not her finest day and yes I moan and we have a giggle about her behaviour.
However, I was saddened to learn today, that two young man lost their live...2021-03-3004 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 35 – Unconditional Love – Walk 1000 miles a year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 35 - Willow the Alarm clock was whining indicating time to get up, the joys of having a dog. It’s not all sunshine and roses, it’s expensive food and then the other end. The being tied down, kennels costing twice as much as the budget holiday. But of course, the security, the companionship and believe me when I say we have some great conversations, how we laugh. The unconditional love. Okay you sold it, I’ll deal with the whining, screaming and barking, it’s a trade-off, I guess. Another beautiful icy cold day and yet = everything seemed O...2021-03-2904 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 33 - Sunshine - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 33 – Willow the Alarm clock gets me up again, by screaming in my face. I took Eva out for a her quick bimble whilst Dave slept on, after all he is the bread winner. Swapping for Willow we set off - Oh yeah you guessed it round the block. Unsure if you aware, I am not a morning person, I do not like being woken up. However, it was a great time for a walk. The sun was doing its best to take ownership of the shimmering frost on the ground, there was a chill in the air but I...2021-03-2704 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 32 - Birthday Missed - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 32 – The block route was closed, yes the same sign was up as yesterday, no I didn’t ignore it – I thought I would end up on the TPT Trans Pennie Trail and lack of directions supersedes me, looked at Willow, who shook her head , so I took that as a sign and turned round. I ended up walking round Meadowhall carpark. Not a blade of grass in sight, poor Willow, I was riddled with guilt. Mind you neither was there any cars. I did find where the security guards skive though. Trooped home with my bottom lip hanging out in...2021-03-2605 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 31 - Smell It - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 31 – Had a really good walk, why? Was I doing a new route? Has all the mud disappeared? Did Boris say we can go out to play? Was Willow a good girl? Did Willow eat anything?
No – No – No – Yes – No We had company, the newly jabbed Natasha the Marathon Runner, now go easy on her she didn’t make me run, she’d have wet herself laughing. Dave describes my running a lot of effort with little forward motion. A bit like Phoebe’s free running (come on people sitcom references) but she does it better ie, more forward...2021-03-2505 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 30 - So Cold - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 30 – It was cold, Ice Cold (Yes I know your singing the song - Ice, Ice baby da da da dar) and the wind was howling some and yet we strode on. Took Eva out for a bimble first and then Willow round the block. I’m getting bored of the block, I’m getting bored of the mud, I’m bored of being bored. I do note the days are lengthening and I long for spring, but not April showers. I’d really like to be cruising then we could walk in a different place, every day – The times we liv...2021-03-2406 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 28 - Moangy - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 28 – I’m not feeling it, I lost my mojo, we set out for a walk - my neck hurts, it’s cold and it’s like Piccadilly circus outside. Lots of peoples doing various things and very little lockdown but I suppose they can argue they are just having their exercise just like us. You can tell it’s a weekend/Sunday. Super short walk, nothing too much to write home about but then I suppose that’s the journey isn’t it? Sometimes life just gets in the way. I know where I’ve dropped miles, yes, I’ve got some in...2021-03-2204 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 27 - Neck Ache - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 27 – As I rolled over in bed, I know normally my walking day starts much later ie, when I’m dressed with fresh minty breath. Bear with me; as I rolled over, my neck got in a tangle with itself, and I tore some of my neck muscles, both heard and felt. No chance of going back to sleep after that, up at the crack of dawn. Okay when I say crack of dawn, I mean 8am but that is still very early for a Saturday. I was doing some sort of Frankenstein’s monster impression with one leg longer...2021-03-2108 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 26 - Block Closed - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 26 – The block route was closed, yes the same sign was up as yesterday, no I didn’t ignore it – I thought I would end up on the TPT Trans Pennie Trail and lack of directions supersedes me, looked at Willow, who shook her head , so I took that as a sign and turned round. I ended up walking round Meadowhall carpark. Not a blade of grass in sight, poor Willow, I was riddled with guilt. Mind you neither was there any cars. I did find where the security guards skive though. Trooped home with my bottom lip hanging out in...2021-03-2003 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 25 - The Day After - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 25 – The day after the day before, yeah I’m not sure where I was going with that one but to say, that yesterday; round the block was closed. Yes, the River Don stopped my plod. Yes, I know there was diversions but I wasn’t going to mention it. So needless to say, I couldn’t walk round the block, wise choice by me.
You wanna know a secret? Come here then – Willow and I walked past the cones of no entry; I know I’m a criminal, the dog made me do it officer. Mrs Don had rece...2021-03-1904 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 24 - Wasn't Feeling It - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 24 - I didn’t walk today I did feel a bit like Noah took the #dogs out one by one. Squelchy, rainy & horrible Eva #Akita loved it. Willow walked quick then home - Just counts as a bimble
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Let me tell you I ache. I walked the dogs early in the morning then chopped wood all day. Today dawns and I ache – I still went round the block but now I am broken. Go get my mum, I got a boo boo. Where does it hurt? Everywhere, kiss it here and here and here, you can see where that was going.
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Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 21 - Street Art - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 21 – Dave keeps shoving us, Willow and I, out of the van and let me tell you the distances are getting longer, well they look like it anyway – right up until you walk it then find out it’s the same distance as walking round the block.
I walked across town today, well when I say town, Sheffield is a city but ya say town, don’t ya? Really not sure why Sheffield is a city, it has a couple of universities, sure Okay. Yes, it has a Cathedral but it’s a tinsy one – although award winning for...2021-03-1505 min
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So, the girls went nuts again, there is still snow on the ground so as soon as they were off the lead, it went into Zoomies. All was going well, One Lock, Two Lock, Three Lock and before we get to Four, the mu...2021-03-1405 min
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Stats, we’ve run out of Christmas food, Out of the official race I’m number 599 which would appear I’m going backwards – I remember the good old days when I was 260. To be fair there are now 5362 walkers/runners. First position is being held onto by a lady who has...2021-03-1104 min
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Willow wore her camera today, which everyone managed to notice and comment on, like I didn’t know it was on there. Have you ever noticed tha...2021-03-1004 min
Walk 1000 miles a Year; Can a Great Dane and a Couch Potato #walk1000miles 2021?Day 15 - Saved a Trolley - Walk 1000 Miles in a Year #walk1000miles #WillowWalks1000MilesDay 15 – Today I looked like a Chav pushing a trolley back to Marks and Spencers. 3rdone I’ve saved in 15 days of walking; I don’t think he would have survived in the wild. He didn’t have a pound in and it was good will gesture. Willow actually trots really beautiful beside it so I was really chuffed she wasn’t crisscrossing in front. Another walk around the block, whilst messing with my selfie stick and videos
In two weeks #walk1000miles I’ve done 72.6, left to go, 927.4 miles - weirdly I’m a little excited about coming u...2021-03-0904 min
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Let me explain, today for the first time I wore my headphones and all was good with the world, basically because I couldn’t hear it. Okay slight over exaggeration I had one ear in the world and one out – always good to be aware of your surroundings. I think Willow likened it to a ‘Pink’ concert, she loved my singing, I mean who wouldn’t!! Also did s...2021-03-0405 min
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Then took Willow and thought, I’ll mix it up and mix it up I did. I in my great wisdom decides to go the other way round the block, clockwise, but I want a few more miles, so without planning anything, got lost. The 5 Weir walk is based around the River Don and the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. I know I don’t want to be this side of either, so Willow and I were weaving in between...2021-03-0205 min
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