Daily walk - getting a bit fed up

Me too... same old trees, same old birds, same old scenery.
I'm trying to mix it up with power-walks, awe-walks, etc.
but it's getting tedious.
However, we are allowed out of our own area from the 29th March apparently, so I am told. Yippee!

Fanny?

Sorry you are fed up riverwalk we on a extra hard bit now as the release of lockdown is so near but so far. We are being a bit braver this morning and going a bit further (5 miles) to find a new walk as its the first day of Spring and I have to move some of this lard before golf starts the week after next. I know golf is a good walk spoilt but it will feel great to hit a ball again and see some people.

That's it eazybee mabye we need to use our five senses more on our walks. The poets and great musicians were right.
Listen to birdsong, even listen to lawnmowers and children playing
Smell the flowers, the newly cut grass
Take in views, shapes, the beauty around us and architecture
Touch and feel textures, the sunshine the rain
And as for taste I'm off to eat a freshly baked hot cross bun with my coffee before my walk.

The first time round I was interested in looking at the changing seasons and it was a joy to see nature at work. This year I am thinking “not this again”. I am COVID weary.

I walked down to the local church yesterday, a peaceful spot, and sat in the sunshine listening to the birdsong, admiring the daffodils and blossom, and reflecting on the small collection of war graves of far-too young men; not exactly cheerful but gave me cause for thanks.

Annie and Fanny
Could you do a push?
My mum has a push most days even if she isn’t keen. Not when the wind speed is 60mph or it’s raining although she does have a fabulous Casey thing.
My DS takes her. Mum can walk-just not distances or at any speed. She has to get out of the chair when DS finds the going difficult. They do get some funny looks. If you were here I’d push you round but the terrain is quite flat so it’s not difficult.

It is a beautiful day up here in gods own county I’ve had a short walk already.... !

I shall do longer walk in the afternoon and believe me I count myself spectacularly lucky to be able to walk and to live In such a beautiful place.

Annie and Fanny that’s really hard for you. I’m sorry.

It’s another walk day here as well. I’m sorry you can’t do that Anniebach and Fanny.
I decided to join one of those virtual walk apps, with the promise of a medal at the end so when I’ve ‘walked’ across the English Channel, I’m off on the Inca Trail. It just gives us an extra impetus to get out and go that bit further even when the weather is ???

I'm exactly the same. We've exhausted all the walks around here. We've gone in every direction and I'm just about done with it all. Was so fed up yesterday and the day seemed to be so long.

I quite like our walks round the village and talk to everyone I meet on the way. Socially distanced of course.
But.... it’s not very nice today and we haven’t done litter picking for a while so I think it must be our turn. I get a holier than thou feeling when it’s done but am getting increasingly irritated by the dirty b**** out there.
I even wondered out loud this morning if we needed anything from B&Q. I really must be losing it. ⛓?

I see so many people trudging past my house - they used to look quite bouncy and enthusiastic, most now look like they are doing penance. I go out if I feel like it and stay in if I don't - there are ways to exercise at home. Sometimes the urge to get out and blow the cobwebs away dictates a walk. Basically my suggestion would be to listen to your mind and body and do what it's asking you to do - self imposed regimes are just that, regimes. The same word we use for dictatorships

I feel down today - my adult son and daughter are at each other’s throats all the time and I have just learned that they have stopped talking to each other - they are both to blame. I am fed up. I dont feel like getting out of bed.

I'm starting to dread our walks as my husband is getting more and more grumpy with people who walk too close to us (especially joggers!)

I don't like confrontation and cringe when he says things loud enough for others to hear

Yes we shouldn’t moan fanny and annue I truly feel for you ?
I find walking alone so boring and yes it’s such a push to do it unless there’s a purpose I m going to walk over to our nearest supermarket today it’s about a ten/ fifteen minute walk each way I don’t want much but it’s a reason to go out and smell the fresh air Hopefully with spring on the way it will get easier

We’ve done the same walk for weeks and weeks, regardless of the weather, as we live in a village we can go out into the countryside then finish in the village and have a take away coffee as a treat! DH is utterly fed up, while I’m grateful that we are able to at least go out.
Annie and Fanny

I’m another fed up looking at muddy fields.We live in a beautiful area but am fed up with walking the same routes.I keep reminding myself how happy I was when we moved here and how lucky we are to live in such a peaceful area.
I long to see the sea though.Pre Covid we would drive up for a day at the coast every couple of weeks.
Annie?

Aw Fanny , x

Anniebach

Wish I could go for a walk , I miss walking so much

Me too Annie

We're fortunate to live in a village close to country walks, but there's a limited choice of them 'from the house'. To keep doing the same ones, even with the changing flora and fauna is certainly tedious.

But we haven't bothered going out much. In normal times, we walked when the fancy took us and we've continued to do that. We've found plenty to occupy - and exercise - us in the house and garden. The garden got far more attention than usual last summer.

However, the other other day we needed to go to the next village to the post office so we went for a walk along the river while we were there. Didn't see a soul, quiet and peaceful, and a nice change of scene.

Oopsadaisy why don't dogs ever get bored of the same old walk? It must be the sniffs.

Me too. I have to be dragged kicking and screaming these days around our usual local walks. Especially the ones with views of open moorland which is a magnet for me and off limits until the lockdown lifts. I want to stand on a slab of gritstone, throw my arms wide and yell “I’m back!” That presuppose I can actually still climb into a slab of gritstone now.....

I have to walk the dog so I have to go out, but if I have to see another muddy field and b****r all else I will scream.
So be prepared for me screaming as I can’t see us moving any time soon.
The upshot is that DH takes the dog out and I stay indoors day dreaming about going back ‘home’ to the coast.

Wish I could go for a walk , I miss walking so much

Me too. It’s quite a pleasant round-the-block walk on mostly quiet and very leafy roads, but I still often have to force myself. Going earlier rather than later suits me - if I leave it until after say 3 pm I usually really don’t feel like it.
It’s nice to feel suitably virtuous afterwards, though.