-
Recent Posts
What I’m thinking
Antony Gormley art art class Artist's Way artist date books British Science Association Christmas City Art Centre collage cooking creativity Doors Open Day Edinburgh Edinburgh Science Festival film food garden geowalk Glasgow home Kindle knitting monarchy morning pages music NaNoWriMo National Galleries of Scotland National Museum of Scotland nephew photography photos poem poetry reading reading deprivation Sci-Screen science Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art sculpture Sugimoto The Gallery walking writing writing groupArchives
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: walking
A wee bit of the Fife Coastal Path
I knew that with the fantastic weather this week, I’d be kicking myself if I didn’t get out and enjoy it. So for my artist’s date this week, I took myself down to the coast to do a wee segment … Continue reading
Posted in Artist's Way, Exercise, Photos
Tagged artist date, Fife, Fife Coastal Path, spring, sunshine, walking
Leave a comment
Walking like a fridge
The only information I have actually retained from the four Argentine Tango classes that Mr Woodsmoke and I attended a few years ago is the phrase ‘walking like a fridge’. This refers to moving your right shoulder/arm along with your … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Exercise
Tagged blisters, Edinburgh, geowalk, mapmyrun, Norman MacCaig, Toad, walking, walking like a fridge, walking shoes, Water of Leith
Leave a comment
Write? Walk? A progress report
At the start of the year I came up with two very simple New Year’s resolutions: 1) Write 2) Walk So, with it being February already, I thought I should check in and review how they’re going. Well, JanNoWriMo was … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise, Writing
Tagged geowalk, new year's resolutions, resolutions, walking, writing
Leave a comment
A serene loop
I’ve spent most of the last couple of weeks in grumpy sleepless mode, with a horrible cold that means I’ve been getting to sleep at 4am and waking every 20 minutes thereafter. So I’ve been looking for something to read … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged autobiography, hiking, Loop Year, Massachusetts, meditative, walking
2 Comments
Walking in this World
After I finally got to the end of the Artist’s Way last year, I was missing it a wee bit – I’d been quite reluctant to actually wind it up at the end. One of my commenters suggested the follow-up … Continue reading
Posted in Artist's Way, Exercise
Tagged Artist's Way, walk, walking, Walking in this World
2 Comments
Two one-word resolutions
I’m not particularly good at making resolutions. In part, this is my general contrariness. What, someone’s telling me to resolve to do something because it’s January? Nope. No way. Same with Lent. However, this is a natural point for me … Continue reading
Posted in Artist's Way, Writing
Tagged 2012, Artist's Way, new year's resolutions, walking, writing
9 Comments
