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white_hart) wrote2021-01-08 06:58 pm
white_hart) wrote2021-01-08 06:58 pm
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Getting outdoors (8/365)
I don't make New Year's Resolutions, but if I had made one this year it would be to try to spend some time outside every single day, because even on the gloomiest, wettest, most dismal days, being outside helps my mood so much.
This morning I almost didn't go for a walk, because I had a meeting at 8:30 which meant I couldn't follow my normal route as I wouldn't be back in time, and when my alarm went off at 5:45 it felt like the middle of the night and I was so tired I really wished I could just go to sleep for another hour or so. When I go downstairs, though, I was surprised to see that it had snowed in the night, and my walk by the canal, just as it got light, was astoundingly beautiful, in a bleached-out, monochromatic kind of way.
Also, thanks tojinty I realised last night that the lockdown guidance around exercise has been updated since I checked it on Monday night.
Given how important swimming is to my mental health, I think I can consider that this applies to me, and I can actually carry on driving to the lake to swim. It's not like I have any options closer to home; the river near us is too shallow, the Thames is too fast at the moment, and even if it wasn't, I wouldn't swim alone in winter so one of us would need to drive. I do feel slightly trepidatious about it*, but I think it is OK really...
* I don't know if it's because I've spent most of my life trying to work out the rules that everyone else seems to know automatically, and, in my childhood, being shunned because I got it wrong, but I have an absolutely terror of accidentally breaking rules, and struggle even more with the idea of breaking them deliberately
This morning I almost didn't go for a walk, because I had a meeting at 8:30 which meant I couldn't follow my normal route as I wouldn't be back in time, and when my alarm went off at 5:45 it felt like the middle of the night and I was so tired I really wished I could just go to sleep for another hour or so. When I go downstairs, though, I was surprised to see that it had snowed in the night, and my walk by the canal, just as it got light, was astoundingly beautiful, in a bleached-out, monochromatic kind of way.
Also, thanks to
jinty I realised last night that the lockdown guidance around exercise has been updated since I checked it on Monday night.If you (or a person in your care) have a health condition that routinely requires you to leave home to maintain your health - including if that involves travel beyond your local area or exercising several times a day - then you can do so.
Given how important swimming is to my mental health, I think I can consider that this applies to me, and I can actually carry on driving to the lake to swim. It's not like I have any options closer to home; the river near us is too shallow, the Thames is too fast at the moment, and even if it wasn't, I wouldn't swim alone in winter so one of us would need to drive. I do feel slightly trepidatious about it*, but I think it is OK really...
* I don't know if it's because I've spent most of my life trying to work out the rules that everyone else seems to know automatically, and, in my childhood, being shunned because I got it wrong, but I have an absolutely terror of accidentally breaking rules, and struggle even more with the idea of breaking them deliberately
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