I’ve had a fairly relaxing day today. I was up pretty early to be honest, but then I usually am these days. The sun hits our south facing house, full on in the mornings, and I want to experience it for as long as possible.

I have made a new years resolution; not something I usually do, but thought it was appropriate in my current circumstances. The last three years or so have been terrible for both Darrell and I and without counting my chickens, I am hopeful this will be the start of a good year for both of us. In keeping with my present positive streak, I have decided to keep a bit fitter! So what does that mean in practice? Well I am certainly never going to be an adonis, but walking for an hour each day, should help keep the weight down. In time maybe I will go to a gym or increase my physical activity.

My problem is, I hate the process of keeping fit, I always have; in part it is to do, with difficulties of feeling self conscious. When one is overweight, it can take a lot of motivation, to even think about doing any exercise; I also write, a lot; sometimes for up to ten hours a day; that’s a shed load of bloody words. When I am writing, apart from my fingers, there is no physical activity; that needs to change. I need to set aside an hour a day, to do something, to help lose this weight. Walking this morning really gave me energy and made me feel so much better; I just need to keep it up, everyday!

I am of course lucky enough to have a whole nature reserve, right on my doorstep, as soon as I open the shutters; so can take the opportunity to do a bit of rambling whenever I like. I do feel very lucky to be living in this house; the best decision we ever made was to leave the old one on top of the ravine; I couldn’t be happier
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