Friday 12th June 2020 to Thursday 18th June 2020
Week 12 of the lockdown. I thought the country had completely lost its mind during last year’s Brexit shenanigans but these BLM protests are on another completely new level of bonkers; having to board up Winston Churchill’s statue! We need to bring back the birch imho and quickly.
Now all the shops are open we went sofa shopping…
it was exhausting
On Saturday I packed all the recommended survival gear and me butties together in a ruck sack and did a full dress rehearsal for Ben Nevis.
It gets quite busy at the weekend
I did 10 walks up from the stepping stones to the viewing point which I reckon is about the same as Ben Nevis, 1350m of climbing. I was pretty jiggered at the end but that’s probably because while Ben Nevis has a gradient of between 15 & 20% much of the Box Hill walk is around 30 to 40% so it’s much tougher and the legs.
crowded at the top
While I’m pleased I’ve proved to myself that I can do the Ben Nevis walk I am well aware that should it rain it’ll be a much tougher challenge.
Learned my next door neighbour Ian, who was a lovely bloke, died last week. He wasn’t that old, early 60s I think, and he’d been shielding for the last 3 months. He took the car out for a quick Italian tune-up and had a heart attack at the side of the A24. Very sad and it just goes to show any one of us could be in a box this time next week, so no one should be wasting too much of their life.