A few days off and thinking

I have a few days off, which are certainly needed after the last few days. I am sat on the sofa with a jumper and a coat on, have just come back in and its cold. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the stream is playing, I've just set away Country Gold playing (good album).

My MOT is at 4 this afternoon, I had to buy 2 new tyres for the car this morning. Sat waiting for this postman to turn up, hopefully my new Xbox should be turning up that I bought from Ebay last Sunday. After an email asking where it was, the lady sent a response apologising about problems at work and home and said she would send it yesterday and I would get it today.

I am totally skint, think I might have to pray that there is nothing wrong with the car or it's gonna have to go on the Credit Card which already has far too much on it.

Over the next few days (Saturday, Monday and Tuesday) I will be walking more of the Weardale Way which should take me as far as Westgate. The I will do the final leg the following Saturday from Westgate to Killhope. Then I will plan where I am walking after that probably the Lakes to try and complete the Wainwrights this year (centenary of Wainwrights birth). I would like to walk all 214 this year, even though I have already done quite a few.

Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold is now playing this song always makes me think, which I do plenty of anyway. This year there are so many things I would like to do but I know its impossible to do them all while having to go to work. I used to think of things I'd do if I won the lottery, I still constantly think about this although I know it will never happen. Why I mentioned it is to highlight how much my thinking has changed. If I won tomorrow I would go out and buy more equipment to walk the mountains of the UK and go on climbing and winter skills courses. Then head off to walk as much of the UK as possible. This wouldn't actually cost very much at all, with camping where ever possible and staying in Youth Hostels and bothys. I would still like to do many other things but this would be what I would want to do more than anything else. Most people always want to go to exotic places all over the world and I too would like to see lots of places but I know how beautiful the British Isles are. I have far too many things racing through my mind mostly places I would like to walk and see. I need to stop looking at books and magazines until I have completed some of the challenges I have already thought of. I got a book out of the library last night The Big Walks, its from 1980, the title is certainly correct. Many of the walks in it are over 30 miles some 40 and are intended to be done in one day. They aren't on flat land they are over some of the highest mountains in the UK. It's going to take me some time to be able to do walks like that, many of them I could happily split into 2 days and wildcamp :-)

I think I should do a new post about the walking...