at lunchtime, with a friend – the longest I’ve done since the accident – just over 4km!! I tested out the My Tracks application on my phone too – very cool! Showed where we’d been, how far it was, how long, how fast we walked – all sorts of things!
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Found an interesting-looking graffittied gate on Brick Lane on my way to the station and just had to pull out my new camera and have a play.
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Not generally something to warrant four exclamation marks, but it is right now. If you consider that I haven’t been able to even contemplate any sort of exercise for over three months that wasn’t getting me from A to B (and then usually with a struggle), this counts as a huge achievement. AND it’s a gorgeous day out there. Nice to clear the cobwebs (even if it was only by going round the block), hear the birds going twit and see the sun.
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OK, so I wasn’t really supposed to do any walking, but it was SNOWING and the air so crisp and fresh and people were out in it and there were shops and stuff going on and I’ve been cooped up at home for three weeks now. Ankle hurts now but good grief it was lovely.
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at lunchtime. I went the other way along Brick Lane, back towards Spitalfields Market, then turned off and looked at the church close up. They do a lunchtime service on a Tuesday. Maybe I’ll go along someday.
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… with an enormous art shop! Just round the corner – only about 3 minutes’ walk from the office. Looking forward to spending many happy lunchtimes in there!
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And some cheap brushes to use with it. Both on sale at Cass, of course. We went to the one at High St Kensington and did our usual walk through Holland Park to and from, which was lovely but totally wiped me out – SO exhausted. Nice to be out though.
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After a productive morning’s work and my friend’s physiotherapy appointment, we drove out to Abroath where we had a spectacular afternoon tea at Sugar and Spice – a teapot full of tea, little sandwiches (I had chicken, my friend had ham), simply enormous and amazing scones with superb raspberry jam and cream, plus a small strawberry tart, a raspberry/white chocolate/caramel slice and two shortbread biscuits. We finished our scones and then declared ourselves stuffed to puss’s bow so we had to ask for a doggy bag for the cakes – they looked too good to waste!
And of course a walk was in order to deal with the aftermath, so after buying a few small treats from the sweetshop section for djelibeybi, we wandered along the seafront and up into Arbroath before buying some Arbroath smokies (smoked fish – mackeral maybe? very tasty) for tea and heading home. Lovely!
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We didn’t actually intend to go to the top – we sort of expected that at some point the track would do a sharp turn straight up the hill at which point we’d say in unison “bugger that, I’m not a mountain goat!” and turn around, but it didn’t, it just kept winding and climbing, but a good track and while tiring and not many moments of relenting, it wasn’t a hard path to follow, so by the time we’d got halfway it seemed downright wussy to turn around, so to the top we went… where we found an absolute gale blowing, plus two work friends of djelibeybi’s who we promptly invited to dine with us at the Shakespeare pub tomorrow night. The view would have been spectacular… if the entire country hadn’t been covered in mist. The wind truly was spectacular. At one point I had to cling to the trig marker while djeli told me all about how it worked.
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We spent the afternoon at Blist’s Hill Victorian Town which is one of those recreation-village type things, but this one was way way better than any other I’ve been to. Whereas Old Sydney Town was basically populated with random people in costumes, this one actually has real live craftspeople, and the town makes a sideline living out of making bricks and rooftiles and rocking horses and so on. Many of the things for sale – from hot cross buns, to postcards and little plaster plaques, are made onsite using Victorian methods. The printer not only prints postcards, but also bags for the other shops, money envelopes for the bank and handbills to go in the shop windows. The draper’s sells bonnets which are sewn by the woman running the shop. The whole thing was fascinating and very well done. AND there was egg dancing 
Altogether a tip-top day out.
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