Today, I am really stiff.  My leg muscles have tightened up to the point I don’t want to move from this computer chair – ever, and it’s made me realise just how unfit I am. Here’s what happened.

My autistic son loves trains, so yesterday I decided to take him and his brother to a nearby city to watch a circus performance.  I was assured when I booked the tickets over the telephone it was in easy walking distance from the station.  According to the booking clerk, it was about three-quarters of a mile.

Clearly he didn’t know the area because it was, infact, one and a half miles! 

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This afternoon I gave a talk on the benefits of having a Circle of Friends and the audience were lucky I turned up. I don’t mention that for egotistical reasons, but simply because I am geographically challenged.

Driving anywhere outside my comfort zone is usually off my agenda.  However, having invested in one of those GPS things where a voice speaks as an arrow on a map points you in the right direction, I made an exception and amazingly found my way there and back safely.

I was asked to arrive about 12.30 p.m. so I could have lunch before I spoke. As it was half term, I took my autistic son with me, and he was delighted to try the various sandwiches, cakes and nibbles.

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I must confess I’m not one for “diets”. Have you ever wondered why there are so many different types around?  Could it be they just don’t work?

Now before you say, “Ah, but I lost three stone on the cut out everything you enjoy diet”, just consider whether you put it all back on again, and more, once you stopped. Or maybe, you haven’t stopped and are still consciously thinking about, and cutting out, certain things from your daily diet.

How boring!

Of course there are certain foods, which really are junk foods and do you no good at all, but some of these fad diets are quite ridiculous.  If you really think about it, the manufacturers of the diet products don’t actually want you to lose weight anyway otherwise they’d lose their market.  Weight loss or gain is big business.

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Exercise is clearly the secret to long life and in the past I have often used my age and lack of time as an excuse for not doing much.  The result is I am unfit and overweight, so hearing about Buster Martin who is almost twice my age has made me re-think my position.

This incredible man was born in 1906 and says he is too cantankerous to die. Currently he is training to run the London Marathon.

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