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I was planning to go out for a walk with a friend tomorrow morning, to try to prepare for the long sponsored walk in June.  It was the last opportunity we were likely to get before she has to take her children away on holiday at half-term.  As I had wasted a perfectly good opportunity for a walk last week by being in such a miserable mood that I would rather angst about my worries than go out and explore the countryside around Bath, I had been hoping to make up for it with a long, cheerful walk this time, if we could manage it before rain set in.   However, yesterday evening I had an urgent text from the manager of the Oakleaf Café:   I hope you are well? So sorry to ask this but we are really struggling for volunteers this week and I wondered if you were able to help us out at all on Wednesday between 11-1pm? Tim and I are in Cornwall until Wednesday pm so can't either help unfortunately.    Many thanks, Caroline   I slept on the decis...

I have just received my first donations for a sponsored walk, and I haven’t even begun the walk yet. Ever since doing my last walking challenge in July 2021, I have been hoping to do another, preferably not in July, and see whether I can push myself a bit further.   I managed to walk 300 miles (483 km) in a month last time, which sounds good but is only really an average of 10 miles per day – could I manage 400 (644 km) the following year? However, in practice, life didn’t work out that way .   I tried taking up a sponsored reading challenge  in 2022 instead, seeing how many books in German I could read in seven months.   However, this wasn’t very successful, either in terms of reading many books (because I was trying to fit this in around everything else in my life, instead of setting aside a month for a challenge) or in terms of raising much money to help Ukrainian refugees.   Probably, because a sponsored reading challenge is so much more unusual than a ...