Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, enjoy your day out!

I've started going for a walk each morning but hadn't really connected it to SAD, although actually on reflection I think it's doing me a power of good :j I make tea in a travel mug, head off to let the chickens out, and then just keep going round the footpaths and fields while I'm drinking my tea. Usually just about a mile, but it's a slow stroll rather than a fast stomp so it usually takes me 20-30 minutes of ambling and taking pictures. It's actually a really nice start to the day.

I started it as a way of getting myself back into the habit of exercise (now I live in the middle of nowhere and find myself not walking ANYWHERE for transport any more when I used to walk everywhere :eek: ). And now gradually I'm substituting running for a couple of walks a week. But it's actually a really nice start to the day, sometimes I bump into a neighbour, or see a hare or something, and when it's been snowing (like today) I can check whether the road is clear.

But you're right about it being a good antidote to SAD too. I don't think I have SAD as such, but I certainly spend a lot more time inside in the winter and am quite grumpy about it so this is a nice antidote :rotfl:

Do tell us all about the power station!

Karmacat

Cheery, that sounds wonderful, ambling about with a cuppa while saying hello to the ladies! Interesting that you arrived at the same idea of an earlyish walk, for completely different reasons.

The Power Station - hmm, well, I got some fantastic vistas of cranes in the sky, a dozen or so at once, but the whole station is still a shell, a complete building site. My sister went there for a lunch the other day, and from that, I thought it was much further on, but the restaurants that *are* open are in a new, normal-type residential building with shops etc on the ground floor.

Disappointing in one way, but fascinating in another. There was a viewing platform to see the whole building site outside the station itself, right up to the water's edge, it's huge. And the cranes were spectacular, as I say. But what's been built has lots of open concrete spaces between high rises, and the wind whistles down those alleys like a banshee. On the other side of the railway, however, is Battersea Park, which is huge, and slightly slope-y, this way and that way, with mature trees. And there was no wind, nothing. I'm sure the development will be fine in the end, like Chelsea Harbour over the river (though thats very enclosed, come to think of it, thats where the Roca Gallery is that I went to the other day). I love the look of the power station, I hope they can get something going there.

In the afternoon, I just lay about, fighting that wind was exhausting. And there's you up on the hills! :o:o

beanielou

Wind can be exhausting.
Sounds like an interesting day out.
From what I have read I thought it was further on to.

Karmacat

Hi beanie! Actually, thinking about it, there may be some structural work inside the station going on, for the first dozen floors or so, maybe, because of all those cranes being so busy. But it can't be seen, you get no sense of what might be happening.

teapot2

Sounds an interesting if windy trip KC. I remember they were talking about developing the power station when I still lived in London so thats a good 20+ years ago. I guess the recession happened and knocked it on the head.

I always think of that Pink Floyd album cover when someone mentions Battersea Power Station

apple_muncher

I wouldn't like to be a crane driver in those winds...It always looks a precarious position at the best of times in the best of weathers...


Enjoy your Tuesday x

Karmacat

Yep, and its even windier today! Gusting up to 40 mph and if I wait till it calms down, there's a 95% chance of rain :rotfl: I planned a trip to Tower Bridge today, you can go up on the high walkway, but I might pass, till the next time :rotfl:

I'll choose my moment for a trip to the shopping mall in one direction, and a Zero Waste shop I've just spotted in another. Don't care about the rain on local trips like that

themadvix

Wow, lots of philosophising going on here - it all sounds good!

On the southern sun thing - if March would really be better and you do fancy Andalucia, would having something booked to look forward make up for the fact it wasn't *in* Feb? I know that knowing I've got something coming up helps me.

I was fed up of the wind yesterday - after a while it just gets wearing. Enjoy your short trips out today - don't forget your containers for the zero-waste shop

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

Wow, lots of philosophising going on here - it all sounds good!

It's a me thing

On the southern sun thing - if March would really be better and you do fancy Andalucia, would having something booked to look forward make up for the fact it wasn't *in* Feb? I know that knowing I've got something coming up helps me.

Yes, I was thinking exactly that (I don't think it reached my typing ). My winter wouldn't have been such a slog, but still, yes, winter sun would be lovely.

I was fed up of the wind yesterday - after a while it just gets wearing. Enjoy your short trips out today - don't forget your containers for the zero-waste shop

It was *very* wearing today, you're dead right. The zero waste shop was wonderful, I asked for permission to take a photo inside for the blog, as I'll post about it on there. They were very sweet. Loved the layout - it was mega expensive, for the most part, compared to what I pay, but weirdly one item was a lot cheaper - non-organic linseed, grown in the UK - it was only 29p per 100grams. Thats excellent! I walked up to Clapham Junction, hoping to go to the Whole Foods store at the same time for comparison, but it's being renovated.

Tipping down with rain immediately after I got back - oh boy, I'm so glad to be inside today!

Cheery_Daff

Glad the zero waste shop was cheery :j We've got one here now which is ace, although I confess I've only bought herbs in it so far. They have shampoo and all kinds so I'll definitely be back.

Definitely a day to be inside :eek: had vile sideways snow here today! :eek: