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Who needs the gym on a day like today? I set out for a walk to find a daily blip. Wrapped up for the cold, including two pairs of socks - one of which was bought in the USA with L and R embroidered to enable the correct choice to be made. Some of you may be entertained to know that, as an experiment (honest!), I wore the R on my left foot and the L - well you can guess. It didn't make any difference at all.

The walk proved to be really hard work - slipping on both steep up and down slopes. Why buy boots that take crampons if you then leave them at home? To compound that, each time I took a photograph (126 times in all) my glasses steamed-up. It was the tiresome lens cleaning this required that prompted me to turn back...

...and then at home have to confront more hard physical effort, clearing the drive of 6 inches of snow, with a "new" shovel. I now feel about 5 kilos lighter.

Oh, and before I forget with all this whingeing. the photograph shows the group of houses where I live, from a nearby hill.