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X marks the spot where Andrew John Teague fell… in his own words…

A devastating blow…

Start of the walk across the Gower Peninsula,  good spirits and good weather.

All started well but  hard trekking at points. Definitely something I’m used to.

Around most of the coast, all was going swimmingly, past many of the coves, along many cliff tops.

But then disaster struck.

I slipped and fell on a root of a tree protruding in the mud.

In a effort to save the cross I ended up injuring my knee and, I think, twisted a  muscle in my side.

But worse, the cross was damaged.

Unfortunately, the coastal walk has no vehicle pick-up points, so I was left to limp approx three and half miles carrying the damaged cross.

Normally three and half miles would take me just over an hour.

But this time far more and the further I limped the harder it got.

So hard at times I stopped then struggled to motivate myself to get on with it again.

The usual pain in my feet had subsided due to the pain in my knee. It was overwhelming me.

A stream I normally spring over this time I simply had to wade through.

The marshland walk was full of sludgy mud and normally I spend time looking for the best route. Not this time, just sludged through it and it felt more like dragging myself than walking.

But the cross in hand motivated me along willing the destination point for pick up to appear.

The most difficult part was not being able to see the destination, just  field after field, gate after gate and bog after bog.

It almost felt like a survival course.

This time I was almost beaten, feeling at a very low ebb, disappointed with myself for not completing. Willing myself to get through my  plight.

Normally just over an hour leading at this point to more like 3 hours.

But, by God, I was going to get back with that cross.

Then a village by Coyty in sight and finally  a signal on my phone. It was time to get me out of here.

Rescue mission!

Thank you to Ceri Williams for meeting me at Coyty and picking me up.

Feeling deflated and beaten. A simple slippery root of a tree had  taken me out.

I remembered Ben Nevis a couple of years ago, then it was a mere little stone coming down the mountains that caused me to twist my knee.

It shows that when going up against the elements and nature sometimes you come second.

That’s why it is import to respect the elements and nature. They have been around a lot longer than us.

Home. Bath. Bed.

I will certainly attempt the walk again at some point in the future …

Walking for children’s future …

Climbing for children’s future …

Standing up for parents grandparents and family going through contact denial.

Dedicate to educate.

Raising awareness.

Lyrics

I’m walkin’, yes indeed, and I’m talkin’ ’bout you and me
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me (yes)
I’m lonely as I can be, I’m waitin’ for your company
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me
What ‘ya gonna do when the well runs dry?
You’re gonna run away and hide
I’m gonna run right by your side, for you pretty baby I’ll even die
I’m walkin’, yes indeed, I’m talkin’ ’bout you and me
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me

I’m walkin’, yes indeed, and I’m talkin’ ’bout you and me
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me (yes)
I’m lonely as I can be, I’m waitin’ for your company
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me
What ‘ya gonna do when the well runs dry?
You’re gonna sit right down and cry
What ‘ya gonna do when I say bye-bye?
All you’re gonna do is dry your eye
I’m walkin’, yes indeed, I’m talkin’ ’bout you and me
I’m hopin’ that you’ll come back to me

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We are running a series of lovely, tasty, healthy recipes supplied by our guest writer Jessica Steen. She is very passionate about food and health. We hope you enjoy trying these glorious simple meals.

The first one nettle hummus, yes that’s right nettles, and they are free to forage…

Over to Jessica…

When you think of nettles the two things that come to mind are Soups and Stings- but these prickly folks are a super food baby! They are shown to lower blood pressure, reduce inflammation (ironically), and the Ancient Egyptians used stinging nettle to treat arthritis and lower back pain!
Found in grasslands and woodlands these little guys are the bane of any walk!
But once picked (with gloves- a trained hand can pick them pushing the needles down so they don’t sting) they can be transformed into something delicious! Teas and soups are the obvious choice- but I wanted to try something a little more adventurous!
Broad Bean, Chilli & Nettle hummus!
* 550 g / 3 cups podded beans from my neighbours garden (=400 g / 2 cups of shelled one)
* approx. 80 ml of water
* 3 and ½ tbsp lemon juice (more or less to taste)
* 1 garlic clove, pressed
* 1 level tsp of fine sea salt
* about 12 fresh nettle leaves
* 2 sprigs of basil
* a few grinds of fresh pepper
* A tbsp of diced hot chilli (optional)
* 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (optional)

Chickpea salad…perfect for an Indian Summer

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GILES WATSON WRITES:

Another toxic meme is circulating.

It tries to claim that most of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Italy were accompanied by “comorbidities”, and it insists that most of the deaths were in nursing homes.

Given that this meme is appearing repeatedly on my news feed, I’m going to put my answer to it here, rather than tackling this execrable garbage every time it crops up.

If you’re my Facebook friend and you are sharing this rubbish, please read this and then decide whether you still want to be my “friend”.

Just because these people had underlying medical conditions, it does not mean that they were going to die from them – certainly not with the horrible, desolate suddenness which COVID-19 dealt death to them. Most of us have an underlying health condition as we get older; it depends purely on how you define it.

As for the part about 90% of deaths coming from nursing homes, it seems rather irrelevant to the discussion unless we have decided that we are not going to honour old people for their past contributions to society, or care about their welfare now – which is frankly just abominable. The meme includes no statistic showing how many health workers were killed, I notice; are they dispensable too?

We could also just look at the bare evidence of our senses. Italy’s health services were overwhelmed. Military planning was required to deal with the numbers of the dead.

This is one of the reasons, apart from the physical evidence, why I say that the anti-lockdown movements are driven by neo-fascism: because they are based on a fundamental disregard for the needs of others.

They also lack historical perspective. We are extraordinarily lucky that we have gone a century without being affected by a major pandemic. We’ve had a century to prepare ourselves for it, and to put measures in place to ensure that everyone was protected medically and economically.

We are witnessing worldwide failures, by most governments, to do that. And given our encroachments on wilderness, our long-term abuse of antibiotics and the way we encourage zoonotic disease through factory farming, we ought to be expecting more pandemics soon. We are not going to defeat them without tremendous human cost if we just go on living lives as normal.

My parents are both over 80. To me, that increases the value of every extra year and month that they live. It is precious time. People saying that only the old are dying are not only wrong; they are engaging in a colossal callousness, and it makes me wonder

just how much they respect the aged in their own families.

Those who claim that lock-downs are themselves some sort of “fascism”, rather than a compassionate social response to the threat of mass death and bereavement, don’t seem to have complained about any of the other colossal curtailments of freedom over the past decade, such as police raids on our national broadcaster as a punishment for exposing war crimes, or the gag put on public servants which prevents them from criticising government policy, or the silencing of health care professionals working in our offshore internment camps, or the threat of a life sentence hanging over a whistleblower who revealed bullying tactics in our tax office.

Suddenly, when lock-downs have become necessary to stop a lethal pandemic, these people are vocal about the curtailment if freedoms they never gave a damn about before.

So, here’s a question you could ask, instead of railing against sensible measures to prevent mass morbidities.

People have been paying taxes into our system for the past century, and we have known all along that a pandemic was inevitable one day. The fact that it has taken a century is a massive reprieve. Yet our governments, despite all that warning, can’t afford to pay a universal basic income to protect people from hardship and stop people from dying horribly and prematurely.

Why not?

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DORRIE BRIDGE WRITES:

Whey hey, some parts of Greater Manchester have been ‘eased’ on lock-down.

But, sadly, it gets more like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party by the minute. You don’t need a big black opera hat, nor a dormouse, not even a grinning cat.

You can have your tea party in a restaurant, six to a bubble – but there’ll be a penalty if you take one sixth of that bubble and sit them opposite you at the other end of your dining table. Is it any wonder that Alice began to accept madness as the status quo?

Did she, like us, start to make it up as she went along. Ultimately I wonder if Lewis Carol is a pseudonym for Boris?

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