Wednesday found me in Surrey, visiting Valerie (known affectionately in our house as "cycling Valerie" because we met on a cycling holiday in Germany) and delighting in the blue sky and other signs of Spring. We were debating which walk to do - and I commented that it didn't really matter, as the last few times we had been walking in this area I hadn't been able to see a thing because of the mist, fog, rain - you name it, we had it. So we climbed up to Leith Tower, only to find that the view was once again obscured by mist and haze in the valley, despite the warm sun and blue sky above......
Valerie had recently returned from a walking holiday in Spain and regaled me as we walked with tales of scrambling, tunnels, flowers and almond blossom - all arranged and accompanied by her ex-pat hosts. Inspirational!
I spent a couple of hours with the other Valerie on Thursday, helping her while she prepared to fly out to Christchurch to visit her daughter - and to meet her granddaughter, born just a few days before the recent earthquake. All are, mercifully, safe. We parted after enjoying a bike ride together, now named "Valerie Loop" on mapometer.com.
The lack of a view in Surrey on Wednesday was more than compensated for by a visit with my artist sister, Jen, to Churchill College Cambridge on Saturday and to a private view of paintings by Graham Crowley.
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=graham+crowley
I've been tinkering a bit with earlier posts and have added a "stats" paragraph to the final post for each month - tallying up the miles walked and cycled - and the best of 2 blood pressure results - just to prove a point.
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