Exercise during lockdown

[Hector]

Sitting in silence on my balcony drinking iced Indian rum and water, and nibbling salty Syrian black olives and even saltier Saudi feta, I occasionally glance a pot-bellied male wobbling down the street.

One of the things that 'science' has failed to teach us is that although street wobbling might be amusing fodder for message board posts, exercise it most certainly is not.

How are other posters keeping fit in this trying time?

[Hamble]

Cleaning
Cycling
Walking

Same as before lockdown minus work and in different proportions.

We have not been out of a 5 mile radius
and we go and come back long before the it is time for another meal.

[Hector]

Cleaning
Cycling
Walking

Same as before lockdown minus work and in different proportions.

We have not been out of a 5 mile radius
and we go and come back long before the it is time for another meal.

Cleaning is good exercise certainly. Car washing is even better.

[seivad]

Sitting in silence on my balcony drinking iced Indian rum and water, and nibbling salty Syrian black olives and even saltier Saudi feta, I occasionally glance a pot-bellied male wobbling down the street.

One of the things that 'science' has failed to teach us is that although street wobbling might be amusing fodder for message board posts, exercise it most certainly is not.

How are other posters keeping fit in this trying time?

Your kind of exercise sounds good, minus the spectacle of a street wobbler.

Nothing has changed for me since the lockdown. I do the usual cleaning and gardening, plus clearing snow if needed. I also go for a walk along the beach or through the trails every day. I'm not sure how far I walk, but it usually takes a couple of hours. I've always loved walking and we're lucky enough to live in a beautiful place for walking..

[ausard2]

Intimacy great, much better.. Trying to get to 3
times a day but to achieve this we have to
stop our dinner and teatime sessions

[Little Londoner]

I like to get my camouflage gear out and a paintball gun and go looking for skeletal grog suppers eating foreign muck on balconies and give them the black spot.

[Hector]

I like to get my camouflage gear out and a paintball gun and go looking for skeletal grog slurpers eating foreign muck on balconies and give them the black spot.

Ouch..! You got me, you Cockney bar steward.

[Derek H]

Ouch..! You got me, you Cockney bar steward.

Cockney? Little Londoner? Something tells me you haven't read much about the history of Southport.

[Hector]

Cockney? Little Londoner? Something tells me you haven't read much about the history of Southport.

I haven't, Derek. What's the story? Please spill the beans!

[Hamble]

I haven't, Derek. What's the story? Please spill the beans!

Pardon me for butting in.
I had a great aunt named 'Rose' as she was born in the Rose Hill area of Southport after her family emigrated to England.


2: LITTLE LONDON & THE ANCHOR INN

Although not mentioned in parish registers until the 18th century, ‘Londehay’ appears as early as 1489 and is now the Rose Hill area of Southport, by Forest Road bridge. Here, merchants from London came to collect the fleeces of wool from North Meols.

At the heart of the hamlet stands The Anchor Inn, now The Blue Anchor pub, where legend has it that pallbearers once stopped to rest when transporting the dead along Little London Lane – from what is now High Park to Duke Street cemetery, then called The Trap. A 6ft slab, three metres off the ground, which once stood outside the pub, is said to have been used by the pallbearers to lay the dead upon while they refreshed themselves.



https://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/n...rkable-6625673

[Hector]

Fascinating. Thank you so much.

[Hector]

Duke Street Cemetery. A great uncle is buried there. He fell at Pachendale in 1917.Great great grandfather also there.