Category Archives: SLE

New Year, New Plans

I love the New Year. Christmas is for family, friends and food, but the New Year is for planning the future, making goals and exploring the potentials. I was glad 2018 was receding away, taking along with it the pain and uncertainty of an unknown future, but replacing it with more medication and…interesting symptoms. I’veContinue reading “New Year, New Plans”

New paths, old territory

For a very long time, I have avoided the power of woo. Let me explain. Over the years I’ve seen the impact of self motivation, leadership talks and self belief, plus seen (and experienced) the effect counselling and mental healthcare can have on the individual, and am of the mind that if it falls inContinue reading “New paths, old territory”

Exploring your own back yard

I have always been focused on the big hills and mountains of Wales, Scotland and the openness of Dartmoor, as well as the cold wildness of the Norwegian mountains and fjords from my younger service life. I hadn’t really explored the south east, only seeing the crowded towns, housing estates and roads of the southContinue reading “Exploring your own back yard”

First steps on Dartmoor

Is starting something like this supposed to be easy? I don’t know for others, but sometimes I procrastinate. The will is there but the body is a bit slow to catch up… The start had been made last year, at the end of April 2018. All the hills had been identified, routes planned and timeContinue reading “First steps on Dartmoor”

The Unreachable Goal (Or, The Hill List Challenge* (*Thousands of them!))

So, Onward! Faced with the thought that my walking days were over and it was time to hang up my boots, I found it rather hard to grasp.  It made sense that I hadn’t been right for years, I was always hit hard with chest infections and colds but it felt as though it wasContinue reading “The Unreachable Goal (Or, The Hill List Challenge* (*Thousands of them!))”