Stretch it

We’d walked about 11.5 miles on our walk, and really enjoyed the day. Before we’d sat down to eat our sausage and chips we had stretched out, or we thought we had. When we came to get up we could feel our muscles aching. We strolled back to the car, and stretched again. But by the time we had driven home we were both feeling muscles on the sides of our legs tightening up. I think the uneven ground had made us use a lot of stabilising muscles, probably not often used, and I doubt we had stretched them properly.

We got in and decided to have a hot bath before resting up. A few cups of tea later, we were enjoying an early night. We both decided we may need to take it easy the next day.

Brian’s ‘taking it easy’ was sorting out a leaky tap that we seem to have developed over the last 24 hours. It’s a bit of a work in progress as he needs a bigger spanner, which he looked for, but I’m not sure he ever had. It did mean we got to tidy his tool shed up looking for it though. For now he has switched it off, which he had to do via the access hole in the courtyard. Tomorrow we will go and buy the spanner.