31 December 2024

2024 Annual Overview

This shows a summary of the longer walks partaken of this year. It does not include the daily dog walks, nor the local repetitive walks (for example the Saturday Bread Run, or the Surgery Visits, etc.)

This is now the "New Normal", with both ski trips and several short UK stays (unfortunately no Old Farts meeting)

Now settled on 2000 km as the target and 2400 as the stretch - I did achieve the higher number but it needed an effort after my companion's demise. I did manage to bounce back after a slow down during his illness.

Bertie on his last walk

Sadly my walking companion of recent years has taken his final steps.
Unfortunately he had succumbed to a canine version of Colitis, which had caused a gradual decline over a couple of months where he lost 7kg.
He did not respond to any drugs and no physical issue was discovered by numerous tests.
Eventually this was too much, and he left to see Cerberus crossing the Styx