I had to laugh!

For those of you not following me on Facebook (mum?)

I bought these jeggings without trying them on. Have I not been informed about a new fashion trend?!

News from the Free!

Forgot to tell you, loyal reader (s) that I had my MRI scan on Monday. All very efficient.

Results in clinic on the 10th Feb.

Also having a laugh about the letters from the clinic to my GP and copied to me. It takes so long for them to be typed. And they come out of order. Me thinks that the Registrar has less weight in the typing pool than the Consultant! 

DeLIVERance walk 17

PName: round the big block (and a bit more to make it 2 miles!!)

Distance: 2.02 miles

Steps: 4411

Weather: thick wet heavy rain (just like home) and cold 

Wind through hair rating: 0 - had hood up the whole time anyway!

Dogs: 2 (1 wet and soggy the other had a rain coat on! So Radlett!)

People talked to: 1

Building sites: a massive 13!

River down our street

Is this a bootie? Or a sbootie? A new twitter trend?

DeLIVERance walk 16

Name: shenley heights + a bit extra

Been a few days since my last walk. Think I've been fighting something as I've been very tired. Also it's been raining a lot! 

Distance: 1.6 miles

Steps: 3320

Weather: cloudy with some blue sky

Wind through hair rating: 2/10 only on extra bit - a wind swept selfie.....

Extra bit: I investigated the restricted byway. It now avoids the farm yard and joins up with the RB that's goes to Theobald St

Dogs: 0

People: 0

Sheep:0

Red kite: at last -1 - I've waiting all month for this!

Oh yes it is!

Thoughts: where's my motivation gone? The amount of effort required to do this walk! Hurray a red kite; getting fed up of feeling tired; how can I get my brain into gear?

Some interesting fungi

Spring nearly there?

Nice clouds

DeLIVERance walk 15

name: round the lake at Aldenham Country Park (I was there for a meeting so I thought why not! I had a token for parking too)

weather: cold with sunny spells

distance: 1.6 miles (had pedometer this time - good guess from last walk!)

steps: 3375

walked it much more quickly this time - only 36 minutes! No stops.

Next time I do this walk I will add on the extra bit that follows the lake.

dogs: not one - very disappointed :-(

people: same person twice

birds species: at least 17 (robin, pigeon, black bird, magpie, swan, mallard, moorhen, coot, grebe, widgeon, gull, tufted duck, sparrow, blue tit, brown ducky thing I didn't recognise, cormerant, crow) and all the ones I could hear but couldn't see!

thoughts: what will the lake look like if they drain it? should I help with lambing? drainage and muddy path; shifting clay dams; my hip is twinging again (but not for long); this walk is becoming easier (ergo I'm getting fitter!)

for my keen follower (Andrew!) photos will be uploaded in an edit as I don't have any 3G (never mind 4G!) to upload this post!

Interesting rec activity - remote controlled boats at the sailing club

Degraded path?

DeLIVERance walk 14

Name: south through the ginnels from Radlett park

Weather: cold and misty

Distance: 1.7 miles

Steps: 3600

Wind through hair rating: 0

Dogs: obviously the place to be. There was an en masse group of 6 being walked round the park (including a wolf hound thing) then I saw 3 westies and a Labrador.

Walked up a bridle way I'd never been p before. At the top they are building 4 hidious 'Radlett' houses.

Feeling v tired. Started with a headache (gone now) and eyes are all gunky from barrier cream to stop runny eyes stinging! Therefore couldn't see distance! 

Thoughts: looking for concentration inspiration - nothing! Why do I feel sooo tired? How on earth did they get planning permission for those dreadful houses? Why are all these ginnels here? Ho hum.....

Misty morning 

Selfie in the cold 

Love this sign!

Interesting fungi

Puddingstone wall???

DeLIVERance walk 13

Name: round the other block / passing the time whilst Jacob is sitting another exam!

Distance: pedometer claimed 1.04 miles but I know for sure this is not possible - more like 1.4 miles!

Weather: grey with a cold wind

Wind in hair factor: 3/10 gusting to 4 south easterly on beech avenue 

Dogs: 3 ( on v cute white fluffy thing)

Chats: 4 ( v nice to catch up with various people)

Company rating: 10/10 (hubby again!)

Nice old oak tree 

DeLIVERance walk 12

Name: round the block

Distance: 1 mile 

Weather: cold and grey and a bit windy

Dogs: 0

People on foot: 0

This has to be the most boring walk ever! Nothing of interest to note except my state of health. Every step was an effort. Hip hurting. Feeling v v tired. It was going to be a longer walk but I knew I couldn't do it. Thighs are v cold! Enough of this whinging.

Here are some pictures of things in early bud (looking for things made me realise how ever green Radlett is!)

Yes even my rhubarb is coming up!!!

DeLIVERance walk 11

Name: River Ver

Distance: 1.4 miles

Steps: 3000

Weather: cold with sunny spells

Wind through hair factor: 0/10 (too much woodland)

Dogs: 2 - yappy terrier things - one went for my ankles!

Horses: 3 (found out there is a stables v close - defo will find out about riding - lots of bridleways here!)

Sheep: a whole field full!

Thoughts: how pleasant bird song is drowned out by the surrounding motorways; path management; riparian bank mamagement (yes I really do think about these thing!); a very large agricultural building I'd never seem before - must look at google earth!

Sheep 

Watercress 

DeLIVERance walk 10

Name: round the block + a bit of the warren

Weather: grey, mild and a bit damp

Distance: 1.3 miles

Steps: 2764

Dogs: 1 gorgeous grey and white fluffy thing behind a gate

Wind  through hair rating: 1 / 10 (better than nothing!)

Thinking about: work, dog poo and spring 

First snowdrops!

deLIVERance walk 9

Name: Round the lake at Aldenham Country Park

Distance: 1.6 miles (although I forgot my phone so didn't have a pedometer so this is just a guess!)

weather: cold and sunny

dogs: just 3 - loved the red setter

sheep: a field full!

wind through hair rating: 3 / 10 whilst walking across dam wall

photos: lots of swans and cormerants on my big camera

thought about: wands and wizards, rights of way, noisy traffic

the lake. 

DeLIVERance walk 8

Name round the block

Weather: cold and sunny

Distance 1.06 miles

Steps 2264

Companion rating 10/10 thank you andrew and Jacob!

Cute dogs-1 an Australian labradoodle even got to stroke it!

Wind through hair rating 0

Geocache: 1 - best ever according to Jacob! It was a cool one and just round the corner too!

Frosty plants 

DeLIvERance walk 7

Walk name: round the block / passing time whilst Jacob is sitting a school entrance exam

Weather: cold and sunny

Distance: 1.01 miles ( I knew my pedometer didn't work last time! Will have to do this walk again to make sure!)

Wind through hair rating: 0 / 10

Companion rating: 10 / 10 thank you husband!

Dogs: 1 spotted at a distance

People seen going to Shul: lots

People spoke to: 2

Sign I haven't really noticed before but made me smile!

DeLIVERance walk 6

Name: Dunstable Downs

Distance: 0.6 miles (yesterday completely wiped me out so needed short stroll today)

Wind through hair factor: 10 out of 10 ( some cobwebs seem to be missing !) ie. it's also v windy!

Number of dogs: 6 (prime dog walking country!)

DeLIVERance Walk 5 My first 2 mile walk!

Name: Wall Hall (I used to work there when it was UH now it's a housing estate)

Distance: 2.02 miles (yeah broke the 2 mile barrier!!!)

Steps: 4381

Time: 45 mins (I kept stopping to take photos but didn't have to sit down! Yeah!!!)

Name of pub now sitting in: the three compasses (compass as in mathematical instrument not direction finder)

Number of dogs: NOT ONE! ( note to Andrew I really think its time we got a dog I am wondering around the herts countryside looking for dogs and failing! It is nearly my birthday you know!!)

Number of golfers: quite a few  - then I was walking across a golf course!

Wind through hair rating: 0

Nuisance: noise of M1

Pain in leg: getting worse 

Aldenham parish church st John the Baptist

Arty!

Selfie

Oil seed rape in flower 8th Jan 2014

Wall Hall

DeLIVERance - walk 4

Name: Shenley heights

Distance: 1.36 miles

Steps: 2937

Time: 33 mins

Wind through hair rating: 3.5 / 10

Number of dogs: 3

Number of private keep out signs: felt like hundreds! I found it very annoying! I don't like being treated like a townie!

Number of new restricted byways found: 1 - must go and look at the definitive map!

Amount of blue sky: enough to make a sailor a pair of trousers!

Lots of nice photos!

DeLIVERance by walking - walk 3

Name: round the block

Distance: 0.48 miles according to pedometer - this can't be correct as it's further than the last walk!

Dogs: 2

Cute dogs: 1

V v v v good friend met: 1 and she walked me home (any excuse to stop running!)

My friends mistletoe laden tree

Walk 2 - DeLIVERance by walking

Walk name: to aunty sue's old house and back

Distance: 0.62 miles (apparently)

Steps: 1332 (according to the now working pedometer)

Handsome dogs spotted : 0

Dogs spotted: 1

Building sites spotted: 5 (so Radlett! On such a sort walk)

Near accidents witnessed: 1 (I was perfectly positioned)

Some nice winter berries

DeLIVERance by walking. 2nd January 2014

Weather: cold and sunny

Distance: about half a mile

People chatted with: 2

Number of handsome dogs: 1 

Look the bulbs are coming up!

My New Year's Revolution! DeLIVERance by walking!

So I decided that I needed some new targets! Over the hols I managed to walk all the way round Aldenham Country Park Lake! A total of 1.5 miles. And we picked up a geocache on the way!

My focus for 2014 has to be regaining my fitness and stamina. What better way to do this than by a daily (ish) walk!

Every time I walk I will post a photo. I will try and log the distance too (if I can get the pedometer to work on my phone!) and a few other snippets if interest.

Alex geocaching at Aldenham CP!

News from the Free! (30th December 2014)

So I spent the whole day in the environs of the Royal Free on a horrible wet and windy day.

I finally got to grips with the blood service - it has to say on the bar code that it is processed urgently - and only the doc can change that. Once this is done I don't have to go twice in one week. Amazingly I only had to wait 3 mins in the queue (it's usually about 45 mins ).

After bloods I retreated firstly to costa on Belsize Park and then to the pub (having got soaked)

At the clinic I did see the consultant (who changed my blood code!). My bilirubin is 55! Not quit normal but I'm in that zone (20-80) where my yellowness is not quite as noticeable. My other liver functions are still a bit elevated (nothing compared to what they were). I'm to have an MRI. I next go to the clinic in 6 weeks.

And finally I'm down to 10mg of prednisolone. Getting there ..... Slowly.