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Keep on walking this autumn! |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00 |
 I made a prediction in the last Edition of Hotlegs that Summer 2008 could not be as grim as Summer 2007? Ok, I was wrong; it’s been a bit of a wet one all over again!
What ever the weather, WMWG walk leaders have been out in the thick of it and for me personally it’s been a great summer for getting out walking in Britain and beyond. Walking is a fantastic form of exercise and we will find out in this Edition how it has helped one of our members manage her diabetes.
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Taking it easy? |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00 |
 After the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, Hadrian's Wall and Cycling from Birmingham to London this summer. WMWG's very own Sally H was spotted ‘taking it easy' by the Hotlegs paparazzi. |
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Walking with diabetes |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00 |
With 2 million people in the UK known to have diabetes and as many as 750,000 who remain undiagnosed, diabetes is not an uncommon illness.
Diabetes is a disorder in which the body’s mechanism for converting sugar no longer functions properly due to the body’s inability to produce sufficient insulin. Insulin is the hormone which breaks down sugar in the body.
There are two types of diabetes. Insulin dependent (Type 1) and Non-Insulin dependent (Type 2) diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is usually diagnosed in adults over 40 but it recently hit the news headlines as it was revealed that there was an alarming increase in diagnoses in young children. The cause, most probably, was that kids were leading a more sedentary lifestyle and eating too poorly, thus becoming overweight and putting them into one of the high risk categories.
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Forget Welsh rarebit! Who ate all the pies? |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00 |
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 With all talk about the credit crunch and savings banks going to the wall, to add insult to injury the weather this summer has been awful (funnily enough, I remember it being like that last summer too). However we had a brief respite for the August Bank Holiday trip to Pembrokeshire.
We stayed on the Stackpole Estate, near the famous Bosherton lily ponds. It was very pleasant accommodation, with a communal kitchen and even a TV on which we could watch the Olympics, prompting Roisin to display her knowledge of every bit of sporting trivia from the time of the ancient Greeks to how many times Paul Gasgoine has been arrested.
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Going Welsh — with attitude! |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:00 |
It may come as a surprise to some of you, but your Chair can actually read a little, and more advanced stuff than The Daily Star too! This summer I have been reading one of the most famous of all British Travel Books, it’s called Wild Wales. And yes, it’s all about Wales, a country we as a group visit regularly and in which we all enjoy the magnificent scenery.
The book was written in 1854 by George Borrow, and describes a walking tour he made all round Wales. George was an arrogant pig headed bigot, but quite funny with it. To be honest, it’s a miracle he never got beaten up on his way around! Well if he did get the odd chining, he doesn't mention it in the book. Although the book is quite old, the language is still modern and it is easily readable, though one or two expressions may sound a little quaint. For example, when describing a railway viaduct as a "stupendous erection" may raise one or two more eyebrows these days than it did then, unless you are actually a Daily Star reader?
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