JANE’S JOTTINGS
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500,000 steps in just one hour
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08 ert. He remembers perhaps gives a chance to re-
huge trees tower- think daily travel plans.
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ing above the thick I read that this year ‘500,000
stone walls and steps in just one hour’ was
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houses down long the target set for Greenwich
driveways. The gang school children to show their
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of four would run support for a national school
down a snicket, walk walking campaign. Well done
up a hill and, if feeling fl ush into Haimo school who entered
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"Nearly
a mile, four
times a a sweetshop for liquorice sticks, fully into the spirit of the oc-
day? That’s a lot of walking for a sherbet lemons, black jacks, gob casion, using pedometers to
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small boy. stoppers and Love Hearts, saving chart their success.
“Yes, I suppose it was”, ‘Kiss Me’ for the favourite girl of Not only does walking re-
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agreed my husband, showing the moment. duce our reliance on dwindling
me where he used to take a My own journey was sev- supplies of expensive petrol but
22 left turn across the A58 Leeds eral miles from the village to also helps keep us fit. Friend-
to Halifax road. “But they breed the nearest town, so there was ships and social groupings are
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them hardy up north.” a school bus, but in summer nourished on the daily walk to
The A58 was busy even then we’d often ride our bikes along- and from the school gate.
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and parents organised a peti- side river Wharfe, with plenty of Mind you, my husband’s fre-
tion for a ‘lollipop man’ to save stops en route. quent visits for fillings to the lo-
them from having to shepherd Naturally, all this was before cal dentist warn us that, if there’s
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their children. the ‘school run’ became some- a sweetshop on the
My husband didn’t like the thing to be undertaken in a way, make sure
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school meals so he was allowed 4x4 rather than on two legs or tooth brushing is
home for dinner at age 6, hence a bike. built in to the daily
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the four journeys – what a trek! Nowadays, walking to school routine as well!
He usually walked with his is back on the agenda and the
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Jane Webb has lived in Eltham since '85 with her husband and daughter. She has taught at several local primary schools'
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