A very busy week, lots of essential housework (cleaning up after visiting kids, grandkids and workmen), enjoying seeing family at a very sedate little tea party for my senior sister’s big birthday, and returning to my usual daily dog walks.
I was really looking forward to a long walk with a friend yesterday, but very soon after we set off I realised that I was probably asking too much of myself too quickly. My friend is younger and very fit, galloping up the hills.. she had already done a spin class in the morning.. I ended up going straight to bed at teatime with a bad headache and Garmin body battery of 5, which has only gone up to 14 this morning 😳
I’m not at all sorry I did the walk, as it was great to catch up with my lovely friend. The route was beautiful, uphill through woods, then south along the Cleveland way, returning along the cinder track to complete a circuit of just over 6kms. The original plan had been to walk further but as I was tiring we turned back at a point where the routes joined earlier than intended. We then drove a short distance to sit in the secret garden (see photo) for a few minutes for me to cool down.. (my friend was still full of beans 😂). We continued our chat over a mid-afternoon cuppa in the pop up tearoom on another beautiful garden terrace close by.
It wasn’t until I got home that I realised how shattered I was.. headache kicked in, and bed it was! I think I need to pace myself carefully this week.. let that be a lesson to me.
