April 2012 articles
24th April 2012
One day last week we asked a question on twitter: how to motivate a teenager to go for walks. The ideas came back thick and fast, but one of them stood out as something I'd been meaning to try for a while - geocaching.
16th April 2012
Last week I was sitting in the waiting room at the vets, surrounded by posters of tubby tabbies and paunchy pooches. The posters warned about the danger of human snacks when given to pets, not just the type of snack food of course, but also the portion size. For instance, a small cube of cheese for a cat is worth the equivalent of a whole block of cheese for a human!
11th April 2012
Recently I’ve taken to having a herbal tea in the evening. The other night I noticed that the little paper label at the end of the bit of string had an inspirational motto on it. Imagine my surprise when I found, “The one who walks in a gentle way comes far”! With a bit of searching around on the Internet I have found there are a number of other people online who are a fan of this saying too!
2nd April 2012
We had an interesting phone call last week from Ben. He and his friends have set themselves the challenge of walking from Porthmadog on the north-west coast of Wales to the North Staffordshire hospital in Stoke on Trent - some 100 miles!
