A Bug's Life

A few years ago I walked to Ely. Today I walked back again! My sense of direction is shot, I took three wrong turnings (follow ye not the shiny obvious routes for they steer you wrong), luckily my map reading is good (when I look at it) so I found my way back again. The weather started turning bad as I got to Waterbeach so I hopped on a train home instead. I've done the Waterbeach walk a few times and think I made up the mileage on my unintentional detours. I'm feeling good, handled the walk well, but my feet are glad to be up on the sofa now!

Fuzzy things: cygnets (lots, it's a good time of year for them, and giant nests and eggs), goslings, cows' ears.
Red things: poppies, not a lot else
Pecking order: I move for cows, but sheep and geese move out of my way. I wasn't expecting the sheep. Surprise sheep! The most in-the-way cow was one standing on the footpath which runs along a bank, feeding three calves at the same time.
Thoughts which aren't as profound as they seem: why is it that you pass a lot more people going the other way from you than the same way?

ozymandias_cat insisted on leaving the house at the same time as I did, so my escape home was driven in part by him sitting outside the house in the rain with no dinner. He is now quite clingy and definitely sitting on my lap. Perhaps I should add that as a suffix to my list of things to do this evening, let's see how that goes.

• Have a nice cup of tea with a cat sitting on my lap - DONE


• Have a hot bath or shower with a cat sitting on my lap - DONE WITHOUT CAT


• Make dinner with a cat sitting on my lap - DONE WITHOUT CAT


• Do stretching exercises with a cat sitting on my lap - DONE WITH CAT SITTING ON FOOT AND WALKING UNDERNEATH BUGSHAW WHEN SHE IS ON ALL FOURS


• Pack bag for work with a cat sitting on my lap


• Phone Mum with a cat sitting on my lap - DONE WITH CAT


• Go to bed with a book with a cat sitting on my lap - CANNOT GET OFF SOFA TO GO TO BED AS AM PINNED BY CAT

EDIT: Numbers - Walked 14.4 miles in 5.25 hours, minus lunch break but including other breaks (ooh a birdie! drinkie, whereTF am I? etc). 2.75 mph is slower than my usual speed, but the terrain was rougher. There were 6 miles to go to walk all the way home from Waterbeach, my diversions added up to 3 miles, so I'm a bit short of the whole route which would have been 17.6 miles. Maybe one day. The body was certainly up to it.