A Generic Photo of a middle aged couple walking together: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos. Months of lockdown, in which the chief entertainment has been to go for a walk, a daunder, an amble, has meant we may be feeling a lack of inspiration. But there’s always a way of rebranding a walk, reorienting it and putting it to a different purpose. A walk is not just a walk. It can be so much more. Walks aren’t just good for your body, they can help you solve problems, restore your focus and bring you more into harmony with those around. Here are 20 ideas for how to take a life-enhancing stroll from your own back door.
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Once upon a time, our garden was a popular feeding site for birds of all sizes. Then our neighbour lured them away, and my wife is hatching a retaliation plan
‘I hadn’t realised that the apparently gentle practice of feeding the birdies could unleash dark feelings of envy and loss.’ Photograph: Ian Shaw/Alamy
‘I hadn’t realised that the apparently gentle practice of feeding the birdies could unleash dark feelings of envy and loss.’ Photograph: Ian Shaw/Alamy
Wed 24 Feb 2021 02.00 EST
We all know about the classic seeds of neighbourhood strife: unruly children and dogs; light-blocking trees and hedges; full-throated motorbikes arriving and departing when right-thinking folk are trying to sleep. What I hadn’t realised until recently was that the apparently gentle practice of feeding the birdies could unleash dark feelings of envy and loss.
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Joel Ashton came across the bird laying on the side of Lower Road, Ashingdon, and not moving. Rescuing it before it was hit by a car, the 34-year-old took the bird to his home to find it had a slight limp and feathers missing. The cuckoo on Ashingdon Road, just inches from being hit by traffic Joel, from Rochford, recorded the cuckoo’s journey and posted a documentary on his YouTube channel “Wild Your Garden”. He said: “I immediately went to a shop and bought several cartons of mealworms and began to encourage it to eat, along with raw egg and ensuring it was not dehydrated.
The Daily Express is calling on Boris Johnson to show world leadership on the issue in the run-up to the G7 summit in Cornwall in June and the crunch Cop 26 climate change summit in Glasgow in November.
Our “Green Britain Needs You” campaign has already won the backing of the bosses of the biggest green groups who between them represent well over eight million members.
Even allowing for people who are members of more than one group, this constituency is far bigger than the one million members of the UK’s political parties.
The supporters include the National Trust, RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF, Greenpeace Friends of the Earth, the British Trust for Ornithology plus industry bodies such as Solar Energy UK and the Federation of Master Builders.