Dived straight into the chores this morning; no trudge around the Village as a warm up. Consequently it had gone noon when I surfaced and I only had 1000 steps. It was cold, overcast and windy and the local walks did not appeal and though I had to go into town, neither did a long walk there.

I stopped in a village a couple of miles nearer town and did a little circular walk of a few miles down to the river, this got me up to about 5000. I managed to get the remainder by leaving the car at the supermarket and going everywhere on foot without having to deliberately go out of my way.