Monday 10th October 2011

What a difference a week makes!  After unseasonably hot weather of the other week - now it is really autumn.   We went  to our flat in Scarborough over the weekend - just two days but if was worth it.  The weather was 'fresh' i.e. not really cold but certainly not warm.  

 
 Gone are the shorts and out have come the wind proof jackets.  We did not go off to walk the moors this visit - not really the time.  But to walk around from North bay, around the headland under the impressive Scarborough Castle, past the little funfair and into South bay around to the Spa is a lovely walk of about 3.5 miles.  When the tide is out  we walk as far as we can along the beach but at high tide it has to be on the promenade and on windy days this involves a few side steps avoiding the splashing waves (see the pictures from this weekend).    

We have been there when the roads are closed along North bay and pedestrians warned not to walk around the headland as the waves are so high it is dangerous.  In fact once we actually saw a mother and her pushchair, with her little girl in it, knocked over by a huge wave.  Luckily they  were fine but very very wet!

 Our steps are still mounting -we have now recorded 1,882,381!  Not many more to go to reach the 2 million but as I said before we will go on until Christmas and see how many we actually do.  Our stats show that while I am averaging 8,751 steps / day David is averaging a massive 15,695!  And the money we are raising continues to grow.  We have so far raised £1,995 thanks to all our friends and contacts.  That is £895 for Marie Curie and £1,100 for Water Aid.

 More soon Jean (and David)