Yes, today I have gone blogging mad! I’ve been a bit lax recently with my blogging so today you get a huge catch-up. I thought I’d share something other than knitting with you today so here it is.

My parents are spending a little over 2 weeks walking the 191.5 miles of the Coast to Coast path from St Bees on the Irish Sea coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on England’s north-eastern shore.  This long distance path was devised in the 1970’s by the legenday fell walker & guide book writer, Alfred Wainwright as a testing route from one side of Northern England to the other.

Mum and Dad headed North on Tuesday and set out from St Bees on Wednesday morning, I got a text from mum mid-afternoon Wednesday which said “10 miles done, only 180 to go”. Since then they have travelled a further 54 miles and today they reached Shap on the eastern edge of the English Lake District.

So far they’ve walked

Wednesday - St Bees to Ennerdale 14 miles

Thursday - Ennerdale to Stonethwaite 14 miles

Friday - Stonethwaite to Grasmere 9.5 miles

Saturday - Grasmere to Patterdale 10 miles

Sunday - Patterdale to Shap 16 miles

tomorrow they walk from Shap to Kirby Stephen, a distance of 21 miles, a long day but they are out of the hills so the terrain should be easier. They then have a day off on Tuesday in Kirby Stephen.

Today they walked over the highest point in the walk, Kidsty Pike, at 780m. Mum called me from there around lunchtime today to tell me they were sitting with their packed lunch looking at a wonderful view (I felt very jealous!)

I’ll keep you updated with their ongoing progress, J and I are going up to Robin Hoods Bay on the 26th July to meet them as they finish and spend a weekend there with them. It’s the day after mum’s birthday so it will be a double celebration.

I should mention that both my parents are past retirement age but regularly walk (and mum runs marathons) so this isn’t such a mad enterprise as it might sound.

Finally something which is almost knitting content, like many of you good readers out there, I’ve signed up for Ravelry but have yet to receive my invite. Thanks to knitstress I now know there is an online “where am I in the queue” at www.ravelry.com/antsy/check and having checked -

• You signed up on May 28, 2007
• You are #5725 on the list.
• 193 people are ahead of you in line.
• 10654 people are behind you in line.
• 33% of the list has been invited

Knitstress is my near-neighbour in the queue at #5738 so I’ll be popping down to share a bottle of wine if someone will hold my place for me……

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