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Research is vital

Northam Bridge

In late October 2020 the news was depressing. COVID cases and deaths were rising. Despite local lockdowns and a new, tiered system of restrictions, there were murmurings about another total lockdown. Businesses were going bust, and unemployment was rising fast. Everywhere I looked there were rumblings of discontent, conflicting information and vociferous opinions that made me wonder if the virus had affected peoples’ capacity to reason. To my mind, no one had definitive answers and, no matter what the government did, or said, they couldn’t win. In the end, I decided the only thing to do was ignore it all, worry about my own health and safety and concentrate on the second big writing project I’d recently started.

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The two bridge challenge revisited – first published 3 August 2014

Another hot, muggy Sunday in early August 2014 and with the weather still sweltering, I decided on a short walk, sticking to the river as much as possible. It was time to revisit Commando’s two bridge challenge, otherwise known as my old walk to and from work. Continue reading The two bridge challenge revisited – first published 3 August 2014

Chaos in Southampton City Centre – first published 9 June 2014

What I’d planned to do for my second weekend walk of June 2014 was check out the Hamble Rail Trail I stumbled upon last November but didn’t have time to explore. When I say planned, I mean thought about briefly without getting any concrete information or working out distances. In truth it was a vague whim rather than a real plan and it all fell apart as soon as I began trying to find out more. This may have been because I left it until breakfast time on the morning of the walk. For a start I couldn’t find a decent map of it and, as I found the start of it by accident, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to again. Then I worked out it would mean a lot more miles than I thought. The torrential rain of the previous couple of days didn’t exactly fill me with confidence either. Continue reading Chaos in Southampton City Centre – first published 9 June 2014