When I've been taking DS2 for his daily walkies, I've had nothing but my keys, a tissue for me in my right pocket (hayfever) a tissue for him in my left pocket (he drools pretty badly, especially when he's talking ten to the dozen about the colour of the mini buses at the local special school) and 2 phones in my hand, with each of our pokemon go accounts open!
It's liberating not taking a backpack. I don't take drinks for us because he's a pain taking it out and putting it back all the time and it means I don't get a sweaty back. I don't even take my handbag unless I've got stuff to post on the way because it's not like I'll be popping into the coop with him.
I'm glad for the people who have been able to head out to greener pastures, this weekend. I'm really spoilt, here in Durham. OK, so it has hills to rival Bath but it's a tiny and very green city, full of nature reserves and woodland. I'm out into open countryside in just 5 minutes, or into a nature reserve (one of many) in 10. Just 25 to the city centre. Because of the way the city curves along the river wear, I can walk back from the city centre through farmland, if I choose.
It's very different from nearby Sunderland, which does have its leafy bits but has massive, densely populated areas with no green space whatsoever and terrace after terrace with no more than a tiny yard. I'd been keen to head out somewhere prettier, by now, if I lived in that sort of area.