Page 8 | To never go for a walk again for the rest of my born days?

Sheeeeeep · 2021-04-11T14:38:05+00:00

Never ever ever. Weekends and holidays will be spent doing anything that does not involve Going For A Walk. AIBU?

DustCentral · 12/04/2021 07:49

I just don’t ‘get’ walks.
Walking for walking sake.

Walking ‘to’ a place - fine.
Walking to see things specifically.
Walking round in a big loop just for the act of it - bizarre to me!

pictish · 12/04/2021 07:50

I think I’ve been pretty clear and consistent from the beginning.

ChubbyLittleManInACampervan · 12/04/2021 07:51

By the way, there has never been any obligation to go for a walk every day, as some people appear to think.

Ehm no, but apart from running it was pretty much the only outdoor sport/activity/exercise allowed

So it feel like a prison walk to some

DrSbaitso · 12/04/2021 08:06

@pictish

I think I’ve been pretty clear and consistent from the beginning.

"I can’t wait until you all go back to your usual pursuits as we’ll get the countryside to ourselves again..."

Then, after criticism of your attitude, litterers and bad parkers also became firestarters, cow tippers and vandals and all of a sudden...

"I'm a friendly ‘hello there’ hillwalker in passing and feel cheered by the sight of people all bundled up enjoying the peaks. I don’t think of the hills as mine."

To be fair, you're very much not the only one and I appreciate the fact that you apologised to OP. But there certainly is, overall, a feeling from several posters that the outdoors belongs to them, it should not be open to newcomers (I think one charmer even complained that they were overweight; I thought fat people were supposed to exercise?) and that experienced walkers are inherently superior humans.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 12/04/2021 08:12

Pre Covid “a walk” involved a pub at some point. It feels a bit pointless ambling about, although I have forced myself to do it. On the plus side we’ve discovered far more pubs round here that are walkable, found little footpaths etc rather than the road. Roll on ☀️

SummerHouse · 12/04/2021 08:13

This is my thread. I was here first. The rest of you, coming on, leaving comments EVERYWHERE! Well BUGGER OFF!

pictish · 12/04/2021 08:22

Well you know...I didn’t want to write an essay. I appreciate that I sounded snobby and rude. My fault.

bigbluebus · 12/04/2021 08:27

Well clearly not everyone agrees with you. DH runs our village walking group. We've got our 1st post lockdown group walk next week. There are spaces for 20 people (plus 4 leaders) and places all booked up within 2 days. We know that most, if not all of the people have been walking locally throughout lockdown and next week's walk is local too.

MsTSwift · 12/04/2021 08:38

The villagers in a tiny hamlet very close to our small city are incandescent that people are walking around their hamlet 🙄. This is 2 miles from our city. Snippy notices in gardens, shouting at innocent local nurses out for a stroll. Maybe we should return the favour when they all “flock” into our beautiful city for shopping and fun 🙄🙄

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Sheeeeeep · 12/04/2021 08:40

Tbf to pitsch she was nice. (I’m not used to people apologising on here, it’s more usual to be told to call 111 and that you have mental health problems and have you contacted your HV yet.)

But I hate walking. I really loathe it. It bores me.

I do it because I don’t think it’s good for dd to be stuck in and at weekends DH likes it. But on a personal level I don’t enjoy it. With that being said (not aimed at you pitsch) I live rurally, the countryside doesn’t belong to dog owners.

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Sheeeeeep · 12/04/2021 08:41

@bigbluebus

Well clearly not everyone agrees with you. DH runs our village walking group. We've got our 1st post lockdown group walk next week. There are spaces for 20 people (plus 4 leaders) and places all booked up within 2 days. We know that most, if not all of the people have been walking locally throughout lockdown and next week's walk is local too.

Umm yes I know not everyone agrees with me. What made you think I believed my personal dislike of walking had extended to your husbands walking group, out of interest?

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moochingtothepub · 12/04/2021 08:42

I love a walk but I don't want to walk laps around the marina any more - thankfully because of stay at home we couldn't go to my favourite walking spots so they haven't been tarnished. Off swimming at 6 though, can't wait

TheChosenTwo · 12/04/2021 08:51

Gah, fucking walks
I go out most days for a walk, dh and I have worked out of the home throughout but during the first 5 weeks of lockdown 1 we were taking it in turns to go to work. I was on a rota of being in and he is self employed so just went to work on the days I was able to wfh.
Whoever was home was responsible for getting the dc out for a walk.
I actually really enjoy walking - with a friend.
Not with the dc who don’t really want to go for a walk. They don’t mind when we go with family, quite enjoy it in fact. But we couldn’t even do that for a large portion of time.
We have always gone for a Sunday walk, for years, and that has always been nice because there would be the bribe of a lemonade/hot chocolate and crisps at a pub at the end, but it really turned incredibly monotonous this year.
We took the scooter or a ball or frisbee for the youngest but it was still like pulling teeth!
Now they are all back at school/college I just go out in the evening and meet a friend for a walk and it’s lovely - no moaning that it’s boring, no asking if we can go home now etc, we just walk for miles and miles along the river!
Hopefully now things are opening up again now there will be a range of entertainment that suits everyone again and we can leave ‘the countryside’ to the people that seem to think they bloody own it 🙄

Lassy1945 · 12/04/2021 09:11

@moochingtothepub

I love a walk but I don't want to walk laps around the marina any more - thankfully because of stay at home we couldn't go to my favourite walking spots so they haven't been tarnished. Off swimming at 6 though, can't wait

But you were able to go locally. We used to drive 5/10/15 mins to explore new parks woods and lakes. Was lovely. And totally within guidelines

HandsIntoTheFire · 12/04/2021 10:32

I’m very jealous that you can all do stuff again. A few more weeks to wait here in Scotland.

Do you not find though that for the first wee while everything will so busy that it’s inaccessible anyway?? Like we could have a lovely walk for a pub lunch after 26th but I can guarantee you that the pub will be so busy there will be no tables. Last time we were released I tried to book a table at our local restaurant and they pretty much laughed at me and said they were booked solid for the next 6 weeks.

The pool and gym will be the same. Absolutely rammed.

Lassy1945 · 12/04/2021 11:12

@HandsIntoTheFire

I’m very jealous that you can all do stuff again. A few more weeks to wait here in Scotland.

Do you not find though that for the first wee while everything will so busy that it’s inaccessible anyway?? Like we could have a lovely walk for a pub lunch after 26th but I can guarantee you that the pub will be so busy there will be no tables. Last time we were released I tried to book a table at our local restaurant and they pretty much laughed at me and said they were booked solid for the next 6 weeks.

The pool and gym will be the same. Absolutely rammed.

Very civilised here. Increase numbers (thank goodness) but utterly manageable

Same4Walls · 12/04/2021 12:27

Do you not find though that for the first wee while everything will so busy that it’s inaccessible anyway??

We've spent the morning in our local big city centre. Other than a few queues outside some of the bigger shops it was actually very calm, civilised and well organised. It was absolutely brilliant to see others going about their day to day business and is the most normal I've felt in bloody ages.

Wtfdidwedo · 12/04/2021 18:10

@Lassy1945 But you were able to go locally.
We used to drive 5/10/15 mins to explore new parks woods and lakes. Was lovely. And totally within guidelines
In England yes, not in Wales.

MarmaladeToastAndAMarmaladeCat · 12/04/2021 18:37

Yanbu. On yet another walk around a freezing cold housing estate because there was nothing else to do my 3 year old burst into tears when he realised that was all we were doing. ‘I just want to GO somewhere’ he wailed. Me too I can’t wait to go somewhere again. No more bloody walks.

Cowbells · 12/04/2021 18:40

YANBU but I still love a good walk. Even planning lots of walks on holiday. They will not be the same. They are different walks in a different part of the country. I promise myself.

Nogoodusername · 12/04/2021 18:46

Hahahaha! I hear you OP. I am so sick of bloody walks. I am particularly never going on another muddy cold walk again trying to jolly again two kids (esp the pre teen one) that it isn’t boring

merrygoround88 · 12/04/2021 18:47

I live walking - just not with tweens

GoldenOmber · 13/04/2021 20:59

Only one more week before I can do anything else!

To never go for a walk again for the rest of my born days?

XingMing · 13/04/2021 21:31

I am possibly an outlier... I walked before Covid, and during COVID, and I will walk the same routes post-COVID... but I have a dog, who needs to be exercised every single day. She's not very sociable, so is unlikely to slobber on you and she won't go close to your children, because they crowd her, and there's no way on earth she will fight your dog, unless your dog actively begs a fight, because she's a bit of a wuss. She's well trained and nice mannered, and I do get a bit peevish when people complain that dogs are a nuisance. People are worse.

oblada · 13/04/2021 21:37

Sounds like a great idea OP! The less people out and about walking, the more enjoyable it will be for the rest to go on lovely walks :)
As a family we really enjoy our walks. Granted it's a bit boring at the moment to have only that to do at the week-end but it's ok. In normal times we go on walks as well as doing other activities.