Reasons to be cheerful!

[Dave]

It is a slightly overcast day with a "flat" light. Just raised the window blind and found that I can read the licence plate of a car accross the road, without glasses, fairly easily! That is at about 15 metres rather than 20 but it is something of an improvement and at only 2.5 days I guess healing is still going on.

Still just about unreadable with the left eye only at that distance.

[Tank]

It is a slightly overcast day with a "flat" light. Just raised the window blind and found that I can read the licence plate of a car accross the road, without glasses, fairly easily! That is at about 15 metres rather than 20 but it is something of an improvement and at only 2.5 days I guess healing is still going on.

Still just about unreadable with the left eye only at that distance.

Excellent news! Cataract operations are simple and cheap and have a huge positive impact on the person having the operation.

[OldGit]

Congratulations, Dave!

[Dave]

There's still life in this Old Fart even yet!

After foot and other probs decided to get a bit more exercise before the Cold and Clammy Hand of Winter gets a grip on the weather and my mood.

Walked to supermarket, as decribed before, getting a few yards further each time before needing a rest, then a longer rest, until breathjng and pulse back to normal, at about half way. This time I needed a two minute rest at lamposts 5 and 6 (previously 4 and 6) but did not stop at half way point.

Only getting fresh bread and fruit so light load in rucksack. Just missed bus back and they only run every 30mins on Sunday. Walked all the way back with no rests (downhill). First time I have done the return walk for about 3 years.

[xSilverPhinx]

That's great, Dave!

Might I suggest you listen to inspirational music while you walk uphill?

[Dave]

That's great, Dave!

Might I suggest you listen to inspirational music while you walk uphill?

Hmm, perhaps a recording of my old drill sergeant screaming, "Get those bloody legs moving you little bugger or I will pull one off and beat you about the head with the soggy end.,"  He could manage that, right in one's ear, in a single breath whilst running alongside. I think he was joking. I think...

It had the effect of being inspirational, in a way that often required a change of underwear.

[xSilverPhinx]

That's great, Dave!

Might I suggest you listen to inspirational music while you walk uphill?

Hmm, perhaps a recording of my old drill sergeant screaming, "Get those bloody legs moving you little bugger or I will pull one off and beat you about the head with the soggy end.,"  He could manage that, right in one's ear, in a single breath whilst running. I think he was joking. I think...

Yeah, he probably was. Probably.

[Dragonia]

It is a slightly overcast day with a "flat" light. Just raised the window blind and found that I can read the licence plate of a car accross the road, without glasses, fairly easily! That is at about 15 metres rather than 20 but it is something of an improvement and at only 2.5 days I guess healing is still going on.

Still just about unreadable with the left eye only at that distance.

Things are looking up for you and I'm very happy for you, Dave! 

[Dave]

It is a slightly overcast day with a "flat" light. Just raised the window blind and found that I can read the licence plate of a car accross the road, without glasses, fairly easily! That is at about 15 metres rather than 20 but it is something of an improvement and at only 2.5 days I guess healing is still going on.

Still just about unreadable with the left eye only at that distance.

Things are looking up for you and I'm very happy for you, Dave! 

Thanks, I am carefully looking after my eyes and will hopefully see more clearly just what the sugery has achieved.

[Sandra Craft]

Only getting fresh bread and fruit so light load in rucksack. Just missed bus back and they only run every 30mins on Sunday. Walked all the way back with no rests (downhill). First time I have done the return walk for about 3 years.

Hooray for you Dave.  I believe OG is on the same walking program and making progress.  I should join as well.  I wonder if there's such a thing as a walking club where no one lives within walking distance of one another?

[Dave]

Only getting fresh bread and fruit so light load in rucksack. Just missed bus back and they only run every 30mins on Sunday. Walked all the way back with no rests (downhill). First time I have done the return walk for about 3 years.

Hooray for you Dave.  I believe OG is on the same walking program and making progress.  I should join as well.  I wonder if there's such a thing as a walking club where no one lives within walking distance of one another?

I like that idea! Local group meeting for coffee at one another's houses. The local U3A has a "bus walking grouo". No cars allowed, all on the flat and about a mile at the pace of the slowest.

[Essie Mae]

We do something similar here; Hertfordshire Health Walks. We have lakes to walk round, (very flat), and woods to go through, (slightly more challenging with some ups and downs). They only last an hour and I do three a week. The coffee afterwards is at the nearest coffee shop and sometimes I go on one that ends with a pub lunch. It makes me keep up a good pace which I don't do if I walk on my own, and the social aspect is the best part. The only thing is that it is mostly people of around my age, but that can't be helped. I feel so much better for it 😀.

[Icarus]

Not far from my house there is a hugely popular walking venue. It is a paved walking path around Lake Hollingsworth. It is just under three miles around the lake. It is spectacularly beautiful, with many trees shading the path, and the lake is pristine. A very old and expensive college is on the north side of the lake. The college has the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the country. The walking path is constantly occupied by walkers from daybreak to well after ten at night.

[Dave]

Not far from my house there is a hugely popular walking venue. It is a paved walking path around Lake Hollingsworth. It is just under three miles around the lake. It is spectacularly beautiful, with many trees shading the path, and the lake is pristine. A very old and expensive college is on the north side of the lake. The college has the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the country. The walking path is constantly occupied by walkers from daybreak to well after ten at night.

I would do it just for the FLW architecture! (Might take me a full day though . . .)

[Essie Mae]

Not far from my house there is a hugely popular walking venue. It is a paved walking path around Lake Hollingsworth. It is just under three miles around the lake. It is spectacularly beautiful, with many trees shading the path, and the lake is pristine. A very old and expensive college is on the north side of the lake. The college has the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the country. The walking path is constantly occupied by walkers from daybreak to well after ten at night.

I would do it just for the FLW architecture! (Might take me a full day though . . .)

Sounds like a great day out, but it'd take me a day to get there, a day to explore and a day to get back.