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A Walk on the Wet Side

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Are you giving something up for Lent, or taking something up?   I’m on my third day of trying to curb my dependence on endless mugs of tea (made easier by the fact that we had run out of teabags). I’m trying to rely on herbal ‘teas’ as a substitute.   My caffeine-deprivation may be why I spent Wednesday afternoon asleep – or maybe the camomile tea was just more potent than I realised. However, I suspect it’s more to do with having decided to take something up as well: specifically, walking wherever possible.   Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting lazy, and I want to get out more.   After all, it’s a horrible waste of being both healthy and in Somerset not to get out of doors whenever possible, and maybe even climb some trees. And at this time of year, when winter is starting to turn into spring, it’s even more of a waste not to go out and see the trees budding… Or in blossom… And the snowdrops giving way to daffodils… And three-cornered le