The Same Walk 365 Times
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week's walk is a little unusual. The guest, Cathy Dreyer, wrote to the programme to suggest we join her on a short, local route which she has chosen to walk 365 times.
Cathy began her project after reading the first few pages of Robert Macfarlane's book, 'The Old Ways'. She was filled with envy at his freedom to walk in exciting, far flung places. But rather than moan about her domestic responsibilities, Cathy thought she'd respond by doing a very short walk, 365 times over.
Cathy says she is using the walk to examine "what's really there" in both the natural world and in her domestic life as a parent which is repetitive and intimate, going over and over the same worn but wonderful ground. Motherhood and work means it's taking longer than a year to complete the project, something Cathy is chronicling in a blog www.walkinginacircle.wordpress.com
The theme of this series of Ramblings is listeners' walks, and this week's presenter is a previous Ramblings' guest: the broadcaster, actor and musician, Toyah Willcox.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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| 0:29.9 | Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now. First on BBC sounds. This is a download |
| 0:36.0 | from the BBC. You're listening to Ramblings, which this |
| 0:39.2 | week is presented by Toya Wilcox. Today I'm in the veil of the white horse between Didcot and |
| 0:46.3 | Wantage, and it is a typical autuminal day. There is a heavy mist hanging in the air, but luckily |
| 0:52.1 | that Indian summer is still around and it's really pleasant |
| 0:55.8 | to be outside. I'm going to be walking part of the Iknealed way with Kathy Dreher who wrote into |
| 1:01.7 | the program to tell us about her blog. She's decided to take the same walk 365 times. So Kathy, |
| 1:09.9 | here we are about to start the walk. How does it actually start for you? |
| 1:14.7 | Well, I open my back door, walk down the drive and onto, across a quiet road, and off I go. That's it. |
| 1:22.7 | It's immediate for you. Pretty much. I don't have to get in my car and go anywhere, just walk out. And you don't |
| 1:29.6 | have to dodge traffic by the sound of it either. It's very quiet here. And that is something that we |
| 1:34.7 | really definitely value. There's no reason to come here unless you live here or you work in the |
| 1:42.5 | local stables. So the traffic is very light. Although we're so near |
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