Our October walking target has been achieved. We have done it. Yesterday, somewhere part way around the village circuit, we hit the fifty miles for October that we had set out to do. The lovely thing was that Dad was with us to complete the challenge. He surprised us by getting home mid afternoon, in plenty of time for a nice walk and to go round the garden with Ari to see everything he\u2019s been working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mum wondered about setting a higher target for November, but Dad said she probably shouldn\u2019t. Knowing how obsessive she can get it could all end in tears \u2013 and a lot of miles. We\u2019ve agreed to reset our target and make sure we do at least another fifty in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh decisions decisions. Which of my new favourite walks do I want to take Dad on first? I\u2019ve decided to start with Oakley Woods. He\u2019s already been to the racecourse once, although he hasn\u2019t done the extra bits. Mum said we can\u2019t go until a little later than normal. By then the roads around Stratford might be busy and she doesn\u2019t want to get stuck in traffic. Oakley Woods it is then. Now I just need to see if Mum and Dad will do both circuits with me or if we\u2019re only going to do the red route. The longer I can keep Dad away from the house, there less chance he has to harvest the apples. Mind you, that is all going to take quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mum and Dad are also planning for the big return \u2013 when Dad will be here all the time again. You wouldn\u2019t think it would take that much thinking about, but he\u2019s been working away from home for most of my lifetime, nearly five years altogether. It\u2019s going to be wonderful to wake up every day knowing that Dad is just a bounce away. I wonder how long it will take him to be fed up with being bounced on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our October target has been achieved. Wilma is very happy that she and Mum passed their 50 mile target yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,177],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-26951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-warwickshire","tag-warwickshire","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}