Year: 2024
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Walking with Annabel: her wonderful books on women walking
Expanding the moment Annabel Abbs wrote Windswept: Walking in the footsteps of remarkable women (Two Roads, 2021) about some famous and not so famous women who were serious walkers at times when that was unusual and often dangerous. (It’s back in the library before I took a photo, so another of her books I discuss…
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In Praise of Walking and 52 Ways To Walk
The importance of core control In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara, 52 Ways To Walk by Annabel Streets and Howard Jacobson’s The Dog’s Last Walk. Can you spot a theme here? Okay, the last is a joke but it was on my reading pile and I’d been enthusiastic about walking five or six kilometres…
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Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
Definitions of Tragedy When I mentioned in my last blog that everyone inevitably suffers tragedy, that’s not quite correct – some people do escape it – because tragedy refers to untimely death. The death of parents, even though it might feel tragic to their children, is not a tragedy (unless those children were really young)…