Shona and Mike Take a Hike

Sunday 28th January 2024 As I write I realise that it has been a couple of weeks since my last blog, as I begin this one I begin to ask myself, "what is a blog?" Someone has said that : A blog is quite simply a regularly updated website or web page, that is used to tell a story or act as a journal of what a person is up to. As you read through my blog you might come to the conclusion that I'm just waffling, which I probably am. Now let me begin this particular waffle! Shona and I have been oot 'n aboot trying to get ourselves into shape for the challenge we are attempting later this year. Our training walks have taken us in and around Falkirk and once again visiting, where it is said the "Battle of Falkirk" took place.  On the day we walked up around Canada Wood, as it does on many days it looked pleasant and still. However, I began to to wonder how different it may have looked and sounded on July 22nd 1288. The blood curling screams as the two opposing for...

                                                                                                            Welcome to our second blog post and here we are on  2/1/24 taking a selfie in front of the Iconic Forth Bridge,   opened in 1890 and still standing in 2024. I wonder if we will still be standing after having walked approximately 1200 miles in 3 months. It  wasn't really the weather to be standing around in a T-Shirt, but the day before the "loony dookers" and for those who don't know, that is the term used for anyone bonkers enough to go for a dip in the River Forth on New Years Day near to wh...

Thank you for taking the time to read our blog, please be patient with us as this is the first time in our life we have ever tried to write a blog. Not to mention the technical issues of actually setting up our blog page. As you will see we are not young computer whiz kids. Recycled teenagers maybe but not overly PC competent.  Is there a reason we are writing the blog? Yes of course and the reason we write this is to promote our challenge of attempting to walk from  Lands End to John O'Groats,  a distance of 894 miles as the crow flies, but as we are not crows we will need to walk approximately 1200 - 1300 miles.  What about us, who are we? Well! We are a married couple and by the time we start this huge, or as a young friend of ours used to say “mahoosive” challenge, we will have been married for over 48 years (this clearly indicates we are not in the first flush of youth). However, like thousands of others, we have family and friends who have been affected by canc...