Resist the Resister
I’m not sure when I started ‘Walking’ - the purposeful act of going from A to Bish - compared to the mere act of not dragging my bum along on the ground. Maybe it began when I went to secondary school and coming home for lunch was a thing - as we had over an hour, rather than the skimpy 40 minutes today. College helped. Catch a bus, you had to leave home at 7.40. Walk and it was 8.00. Poly reinforced this. Of course I really am not good at doing nothing and at least if you are walking you are doing something. You also get to discover byways and small landmarks of minor interest. Thinking has also been a way of passing time and reordering problems. Of course, it has to be the right sort of problem. Anything involving pen and paper is right out. Serious problems can lead to longer walks. The trad walk for this page lasted about 40 minutes - or a podcast. The new one is over an hour and, apart from the coffee break, m...