LC Walking Weekend (2009 - 2017)

[liverpoolken]

...you have to give borussia dortmund credit for the match day warnings they put out to give normal human beings about the possible dangers from wild cats and their equally wild football supporters.....ta ken

[Laura]

Seriously, I still have no idea what Borussia Dortmund is (and no, I don't want to know!) but it must be bigger than I thought. The other evening I ran in the supermarket into a girl wearing a hoodie with a big Borussia writing on the back... Since the girl was entirely asian, and I am entirely in the UK, it did puzzle me for quite a while...

Laura

[Yorkshire Lad]

Hi everybody
I speak to you as a worried man ! I had a silly notion to do something completely different for my sixtieth birthday which is next Thursday . So I came up with the bright idea of catching a train to the city of york and walking the sixty miles home . One mile for every year I have lived . Needless to say Jean and the boys thought it was a great idea so next week all four of us set off on this expedition . Fifteen miles a day over four days( and yes Ken the last few will probably be done backwards ) culminating in a family p... up at the end. So wish me luck everybody . Something tells me I am going to need it !
Phil
P S I will report back as to how it went . Luckily my fingers will probably be the only part of me that still works !

[margaret]

Goodness! Phil, I am in awe of your determination. 15 miles a day I hope you have been practising a bit before jumping in to walk that much.
Wishing you the best of luck,

margaret

[Yorkshire Lad]

Goodness! Phil, I am in awe of your determination. 15 miles a day I hope you have been practising a bit before jumping in to walk that much.
Wishing you the best of luck,

margaret

Thanks Margaret
We have done a little bit of practising but not nearly as much as we should have . I wanted to do it the other way round four miles over fifteen days but I was out voted by the rest .
Phil

[Maulwurf]

Thanks Margaret
We have done a little bit of practising but not nearly as much as we should have . I wanted to do it the other way round four miles over fifteen days but I was out voted by the rest .
Phil

democracy doesn't work, phil!
good luck, you master poet!

"and they're handing down my sentence now,
and it shakes my legs and my ears:
another mile of silence
while i'm turning 60 years."

[liverpoolken]

philip......
....i smell a rat....with me being more than familiar with north and west yorkshire...just returned from leeds a couple of hours ago and travelling back over the moors to spend a few days with our very own irisher tony curran in harrogate next weekend..........i would estimate the distance between york and doncaster is no more than 40 miles......the only conclusion i can come to is that you are including the miles walked during various planned pub crawls around york and all the towns and villages you pass on your 40 mile journey.....then again maybe you are subscribing to the myth that 60 is the new 40......

...which ever route and miles you cover i wish you the best of luck...if you fancy a 30 mile detour tony and i are in harrogate next thursday to sunday.....if i'm not in betty's tea rooms then there will be a pint of black sheep on the bar of the swan hotel waiting for you....ta ken

[Yorkshire Lad]

philip......
....i smell a rat....with me being more than familiar with north and west yorkshire...just returned from leeds a couple of hours ago and travelling back over the moors to spend a few days with our very own irisher tony curran in harrogate next weekend..........i would estimate the distance between york and doncaster is no more than 40 miles......the only conclusion i can come to is that you are including the miles walked during various planned pub crawls around york and all the towns and villages you pass on your 40 mile journey.....then again maybe you are subscribing to the myth that 60 is the new 40......

...which ever route and miles you cover i wish you the best of luck...if you fancy a 30 mile detour tony and i are in harrogate next thursday to sunday.....if i'm not in betty's tea rooms then there will be a pint of black sheep on the bar of the swan hotel waiting for you....ta ken

My dear friend Ken I must take issue with the fact that you think I live in Doncaster which is undoubtedly only 40 or so miles from York . As you know I come from Barnsley the capitol of South Yorkshire where the sun always shines on the vineyards . Because you have questioned our commitment to this ardous task Jean has had me map reading for the last three hours to plot the exact distance back to our front door step and I can say with confidence that it is 62.5 miles so if you take off the short distances we will be piggy backing each other I think you will find the distance we will be walking will be 60 miles .
Btw I must thankyou for your invitation but Jean has warned me that making any contact with sheep on our expedition is strictly forbidden
Happy days
Phil

[Diane]

great idea Phil ! ... a memorable way to spend your last few days of being 69.

[liverpoolken]

philip..
barnsley of course it's barnsley....knowing that doncaster is considered the cultural capital of the people's republic of south yorkshire i always think of a talent like yours as doncaster brewed and based...however living in the same town that gave the world the grimethorpe colliery band and arthur scarsgill is still something to be proud of.....remind me when next we meet to tell you about my encounter with ian macmillan the self proclaimed 'bard of barnsley' ....amongst other things he thought that william wilberforce was a scouser until i put him right.....

anyways next time i will remember what they say in leeds.......

....never ask someone if they're from barnsley.....if they're not they'll be embarrassed....if they are they'll already have told you.....apologies again

ta ken

[Yorkshire Lad]

great idea Phil ! ... a memorable way to spend your last few days of being 69.

Ha Ha Ha ! Diane I hope this is a joke and you don't really think I am 70 next week . Crikey life is short enough without your friends wiping ten years off with the click of a mouse ! And anyway if I were 70 that means I would have to walk a further ten miles . That would land me in the godforsaken town of Penistone on the edge of the Pennines . I lived there for five years when Jean and I were first married . It's not a bad place to live except it is perilously close to the border with Lancashire which you have to agree aint a good thing . There is always the chance of being invaded by a bunch of marauding scousers . The thought of Ken charging up to me with a Lancashire kilt on shouting FREEDOM.....!! scares the living daylight out of me
Happy days !
Phil

[Diane]

The thought of Ken charging up to me with a Lancashire kilt on shouting FREEDOM.....!!

heavens Phil this is a day of rest - don't go conjuring such visions, please!

Take it easy won't you. Your wonderfully p'd-off expression at the top of Snowdon remains engraved in my brain. Now if you get really lost and finish up in south Wales, do come by for a drink. I'll even drink it for you, as you should be easing off at your age.

In truth dear Phil you don't look a day over 40. Have fun x.

[liverpoolken]

i must remember never visit this thread again just prior to jumping into bed for the night.....i had a very strange dream last night....

...it was phil's 100th birthday and to celebrate the occasion jean with a bit of creative map reading had devised a 100 mile walking trip from barnsley to liverpool....however when phil eventually arrived after a 150 days of hard walking he knocked on my front door only to find that i was out clubbing it in town with my best friends king william and queen kate of canada and their two daughters tracy and kylie.....however it was nowhere as bad compared to the nightmare i had the previous night of being trapped in a lift with bernadine while she jabbered on about BVB.....more sleeping tablets please nurse......ta ken

[Pete]

Phil,
What a great idea!
I have a suggestion to make it a little bit more authentic.
If each mile is to represent your 60 years then here's a modified plan

The first mile represents your first year on this earth so I suggest that you are pushed in a pram/buggy for it.
Now, I don't know when you started walking but for the sake of not having to do fractions of miles let's say that for the second mile you crawl a bit and then totter for the rest and occasionally fall over.
Miles 3 and 4 you can walk and run in different directions and make aeroplane noises.
Miles 5 to 10 you should be running with limitless energy and occasionally running off the pavement/path into fields and up hills to return to the planned route.
Miles 11 to 13 will allow you to walk happily with your family and have family chats on the way.
Miles 14 to 16 will be such that you want to walk alone and shout 'it's not fair - leave me alone' in a grumpy, surly manner.
Miles 17 to 21 and you start to slow down a bit as you discover the pubs on the way (see 2nd mile - crawling and tottering)
Miles 22 to 35 you will be walking with head held high as you stroll purposely on your way (still with regular stops at pubs but by now you'll have learnt not to fall over but with some slight totters). The adventure will be such that you can see the miles in front of you and you'll have so much scenery to enjoy and views to savour.
Miles 36 to 40 are very similar to the previous miles but you start looking behind to see the road you've travelled. You'll still be popping into the pubs so as not to keep looking back and to also blur the scenery. You may find that you're looking more at the ground as your feet tread the way. You're starting to slouch a little but nothing untoward!
Miles 40 to 50 and the pace is slowing and you can't walk these 10 miles as energetically as before and the pace is slowing - but somehow these 10 miles seem to pass by very quickly. At mile 49 you climb the nearest hill to look back to York across the Yorkshire countryside - but it's out of sight now.
Miles 51 to 59 and you're looking at every horizon in front of you, thinking that Barnsley is just over the next one - but it isn't. And you start to wonder if you're on the right path and start questioning those around you and also question your own decision in taking this path in the first place. The pace has slowed considerably and you make excuses to sit down on every available bench. The benches with names on them you choose to ignore so as not to contemplate one's own existence - unfortunately these benches seem to be in the majority, so you soldier on. Your aches and pains magnify and you start to invent ailments you never had.
Mile 60 - one mile to go and you need the support of your family. Jean nips into a nearby B+Q and purchases a wheelbarrow for you to sit in. The family take it in turns to push you (see mile 1) and you finally make it to Barnsley as Jean tips up the barrow and you crawl over the line . You then sleep for four weeks -making gurgling and other unmentionable noises.

I think this plan sounds much better
Pete

[liverpoolken]

pete..that's a fanastic description of life's journey....well done you...

...when i was a lot younger my party piece was to recite shakespeare's seven ages of man speech from 'as you like it' ...yes i know what you are thinking but they were the only type of parties i was ever invited to..however i did later move on to recitin' robert service pieces.... reading your version of life's journey i can't help but think you are being far more sympathetic to the aged than shakespeare was....

...sorry phil but the last line of shakespeare's the seven ages of man speech....

'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything'

..pete your post has put a thought into my head....maybe to counteract the possiblity of our september walking weekend turning into a feckin' unruly BVB supporters p*ss up i could resurrect my one man shakespeare show ' a very long evening with the bard' (in full elizabethan costume if i can find and it still fits)....best go and have a look in the attic...ta ken