Comments on: Learning to Walk Again

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:21:52 +0000

Enjoyed reading the article Tess. Thanks for passing that on. Coincidentally, I have recently been doing some research on the ageing brain and the effects on sleep. What you posted seems to tie in with that too. Walking everyday helps us sleep more soundly and more so as we get older, apparently.

By: Tess

Tess — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:49:10 +0000

You’re absolutely right, and I’m just about to go out for a stroll – now the evenings are lighter it lends itself more.

Another reason – there’s an interesting article I came across today about the beneficial effect of exercise (among other things) on the ageing brain: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124118077&sc=nl&cc=es-20100328

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:35:11 +0000

It’s amazing what we can discover, even in the middle of a town or city. Great that you make time for that kind of experience every day, Karen. It sounds like you derive a lot of enjoyment from it.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:38:52 +0000

Guess I’m quite lucky realy Sally. I can walk out of the back garden gate straight onto our community sports field,cut across that and enter immediately onto a local public footpath. This goes underneath the railway lines with a fabulous old stone tunnel and then the path skirts the golf course before opening up alongside the River Dee.

Ok it’s not the most scenic part of the river but I walk this every day, usually twice round to take my dogs for their excercise.
Along the way I meet so many friends with their dogs too.

I love to see the river at different times…sometimes there is high tide and the river is swollen it looks rather scary.
At other times the tide has gone out and the muddy banks are amass with a wide variety of birds.

There are fox holes in the pathay banks and someone mentioned they have their young cubs now.
If I shine a torch across the sports field at night I can almost guarantee to catch several pairs of eyes staring back at me. And I hear them screeeching like cats in the middle of the night too!

We only live in a terraced (towny)street but the whole world opens up if people only take those steps along the path to the river.