Merry Christmas to you from me.
Wish you all a very happy festive season 🤶🏻🎄🎁🎊🎉
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New Year’s holidays are always the most magical moments of the year, with fabulous, cheerful and kind atmosphere. Santa is a symbol of this joyous holiday, very popular in every country and he has lots of different names like Santa Claus, Ded Moroz, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle and many more. The modern […]
Santa around the world.
A lot of work has gone into this post, and I’ve certainly learned something.
Thanks Angela for such an informative review of a traditional figure 🎅 its always fascinating to find out where traditions begin and how they develop.
Merry Christmas one and all 🤶🏻🎄🎊🎉🎁
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1. I get paid tomorrow – my last income til 2021 😁😁😁 I’ll try to not spend it all in one go 🤑🤑🤑
2. Which means I have less than 24 hours ⏳⏳ till I finish working for 12 days. 🗓
3. I get to see my family in 36 hours 🥳🥳🥳👨👩👦
4. Conqueror Virtual Challenges release their next 3 challenges tomorrow. 🥇🥈🥉 so lots of virtual international 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️
4. We’re one day closer to spring 🌸🏵🌺🌷🌻💐
5. There’s less than 225 hours left of 2020 🎆🎆🎆🧧
6. By tomorrow I’ll be 4 months away from my pension 👏👏👏👵🏻💷💷💷 if the bloody government doesn’t renege on me and move the 🥅
And yes, from this post you can deduce that I’m bored 🤣🤣🤣🤣 with absolutely nothing useful or intelligent to write about 🤨🤨🤨 and all I really want to do is 😴😴😴😴 after a torrid 🌃
Sorry 😉
Oh and the weather is cr@p so I can’t even get out for a 🚶🏻♀️😒😒
P.s. I had to add the gif….🤭🤭 our poor beleaguered 👸🏻 I bet she wishes she could just say fekit I’m not doing a speech this year….🤫🤫🤫
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Winter solstice could not have come at a better time.
We’re on our way to spring
Whilst the date of winter solstice has been the same for aeons, synonymous with hope and renewal, this year it followed hot on the heels of a date that will hopefully be forgotten in the mists of time, for yesterday we went into Tier 4 lockdown in parts of the UK.
Spring always reminds me of the 1970s Eurovision song; ‘All kinds of everything’ – snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees…all kinds of everything, reminds me of you…
The first to appear are the snowdrops, those pretty little fairy lanterns that lend a cheer to the hard grey ground, and bring a smile to our faces
And then the sun begins to shine again as the daffodils with their bright yellow faces sprout with wild abandon
from then on its one after the other as more and more spring flowers appear; bluebells
hyacinths, primroses and then one of my favourite flowers…tulips
But don’t be fooled….for March can bring on a bite of snow
But as we roll into April….perhaps a visit to Paris is on the cards 🙂
Bring it on….
Happy Winter Solstice
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I’ve been invited to participate in the 2020 Travel Challenge by fellow travellers and Camino pilgrims http://wetanddustyroads.com Thank you 😃
I’m honoured to be nominated and will do my very best to live up to the challenge!!
The Travel Challenge involves posting one favorite travel picture for each day. That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, and 10 nominations, without any explanation. If you take up this challenge, then you also need to nominate someone each day.
Today, on the 5th day of the challenge, I nominate https://ericotrips.wordpress.com
You’re under no obligation to accept, but if you do…..
You can post any of your favorite pictures from 2020…enjoy and happy travels!!
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I’ve been invited to participate in the 2020 Travel Challenge by fellow travellers and Camino pilgrims http://wetanddustyroads.com Thank you 🥰
I’m honoured to be nominated and will do my very best to live up to the challenge!!
The Travel Challenge involves posting one favorite travel picture for each day. That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, and 10 nominations, without any explanation. If you take up this challenge, then you also need to nominate someone each day.
Today, on the 2nd day of the challenge, I nominate http://theatozoftravel.com
You’re under no obligation to accept the nomination, but if you do…you can post any of your favorite pictures from 2020…enjoy and happy travels!!
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I’ve been invited to participate in the 2020 Travel Challenge by fellow travellers and Camino pilgrims http://wetanddustyroads.com Thank you 😃
I’m honoured to be nominated and will do my very best to live up to the challenge!!
The Travel Challenge involves posting one favorite travel picture for each day. That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, and 10 nominations, without any explanation. If you take up this challenge, then you also need to nominate someone each day.
Today, on the 3rd day of the challenge, I nominate http://theredphoneboxtravels.com
You’re under no obligation to accept, but if you do….
You can post any of your favorite pictures from 2020…enjoy and happy travels!!
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I’ve been invited to participate in the 2020 Travel Challenge by fellow travellers and Camino pilgrims http://wetanddustyroads.com Thank you 😁
I’m honoured to be nominated and will do my very best to live up to the challenge!!
The Travel Challenge involves posting one favorite travel picture for each day. That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, and 10 nominations, without any explanation. If you take up this challenge, then you also need to nominate someone each day.
Today, on the 4th day of the challenge, I nominate http://wanderingexplorer.travel.blog
You’re under no obligation to accept, but if you do…..
You can post any of your favorite pictures from 2020…enjoy and happy travels!!
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I’ve been invited to participate in the 2020 Travel Challenge by fellow travellers and Camino pilgrims http://wetanddustyroads.com Thank you 🥰
I’m honoured to be nominated and will do my very best to live up to the challenge!!
The Travel Challenge involves posting one favorite travel picture for each day. That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, and 10 nominations, without any explanation. If you take up this challenge, then you also need to nominate someone each day.
Today, on my first day of the challenge, I nominate the wonderfully adventurous couple behind http://jwalkingin.com
You’re under no obligation to accept, but if you do….
You can post any of your favorite pictures from 2020…enjoy and happy travels!!
Posted in around the UK, gratitude, It's my life, long distance walks - solo, photography, Travel, walk 1000 miles 2020 | Tagged around the UK, South Downs Way, Travel, travel challenge 2020 | 5 Comments »
The universe conspired to deliver a beautiful day to make up for the horrid news delivered yesterday. A grey, wet and dreary day would have been too depressing. Tier 4??? Seriously!
However, we are now one day closer to coming out of lockdown. Meanwhile, knowing as I do, how the British weather system works; grey, overcast skies in the morning…clear sunny, blue afternoon. Clear blue skies in the morning…rain by midday – with the odd exception.
Soooo, when I pulled back the curtains this morning and saw clear blue skies with just a hint of cloud on the distant horizon, I determined to use my shopping trip as an excuse to get out for a long walk. Which I did.
Heading along the same route as yesterday where I discovered Lloyd Park, I once again reached the park.
Thinking a slightly different route in the park would be good, I followed what looked like a nice, firm, dry sandy path to the trees I could see in the distance…it wasn’t firm or dry 🤪🤪🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️ within a few meters I was slipping and sliding along…
Managing to keep upright thanks to my walking poles, eventually I reached a tree halfway to where I really wanted to go, and called it quits.
I did a careful about turn and slid back to the concrete pathway, which although tough on the bones, is so much easier to walk on. I walked as far as the carpark on the distant side of the park, then returned. There were a fair number of people out walking, mostly masked up and keeping their distance. I overheard snatches of a few conversations; mostly about the lockdown and the mental health of people affected by the sudden change in the government’s position on Christmas.
On my way back out the park I ‘slid’ to the left and walked past a massive allotment plot.
I stopped to listen to a robin sing and then went shopping.
Oh oh…who is that I spy lurking behind the bush?
In all I got in a very good 9.1kms and as a result I’m now only 103.3kms away from reaching my target of 2020kms of my 2020 virtual challenge 👏👏👏🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️😃
I noticed this amazing decoration on the side of a building near the station
As for the Great Ocean Road route in Australia I’m only 25km (15.6miles) away from the end of the challenge 😁😁 I am now close to reaching the end of my virtual journey…239.8km along the south coast of that epic continent – Australia!! I really want to finish by Thursday 24th.
I’m roughly halfway between Port Cambell which I left behind 4 days ago
And nearing the end at Allansford
I hope to visit Oz for real in 2023/2024….finances depending. I only just received all my postcards from the Conqueror Challenges team. It seems I started the route before they were ready, so they kindly sent the cards in one batch when they were done. So awesome. They’re all incredibly on the ball with their customer service.
And so as 2020 starts to wind down, I’m gearing up to virtually climb Mt. Fuji 🗻🇯🇵 Hopefully this challenge will dovetail nicely with the last kilometres of my 2020 challenge. And of course, it goes without saying…I’m going to participate in the 2021 challenge too….😁😁😁🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️ What distance do you think I should set my target at?
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