Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Morning walk with the Rollator around the block

Well Here we are again Folks on a pleasant Sunny Tuesday morning, The Problem as we all know with any mobility problems is the increasing problem of Weight Gain and although we all eat a healthy diet, it is the lack of exercise that seems to be the problem to weight gain.

My Healthy Breakfast.
So That is the problem that I seem to have, since my Leg muscles have got weaker, especially in the thigh and hip areas, and also the diagnosis of early stage Emphysema It means that I am unable to walk as long as I used to so for longer Journeys I use the electric wheel chair ( which I talked about in my last post) so It is important that I maintain a daily walk as long as I am able to with my Trusty Rollator.

My Rollator, after a visit to Photoshop
Anyway I have decided that everyday after breakfast I will take a walk around the block , this takes about 20 to 30 min,s and with the rollator i can at least sit and rest at intervals if I need to. How this will work as Autumn and Winter sets in and the rain gets more persistent I do not know , but I will work something out, as the wet weather plays havoc with my knees as 4 years on Prednisolone , induce Oesteoarthritis in my left knee about 9 months ago and it has also now affecting my right Knee, (never a dull moment with the Myositis). Anyway to get you really bored here is a few photographs of my walk around the block this morning. 

Leaving Home for the shops

This is the view from outside my "Palace" as I look eastwards down the road,  I make my way down past the rows of terrace houses towards "Winter Road" where my local Co-op store is and the chemist. I will need to go into the chemist to order my repeat prescription for next week, and then into the co-op to get my daily paper and some milk.

Winter Road looking North

Well this is the end of Winter Road looking back the way I have just walked from. The Green sign you can see on the left is the Co-op Store and the Chemist is the other side of it. again the road is full of terraced houses on the right and shop units on the left.

Devonshire Avenue Baptist Church

This is the end of winter road looking South across Devonshire Avenue with the Devonshire Avenue Baptist Church on the other side of the traffic lights .

West Along Devonshire Avenue.

From the end of Winter Road by the Traffic lights I turn right into Devonshire Avenue and make my way  Westwards along Devonshire Avenue towards Devonshire Square, This is a wider road than the others with larger houses and gardens at the front.  

Approaching Devonshire Square.

and here we are approaching Devonshire Square, here the road goes either side of a grass island  and I carry on until I get to turn left into  Frencham road which will take me back to my road where I started from.

Frencham Road

This is the last leg of my Morning Walk, Here we are in Frencham road where we have rows of terrace houses in a tree lined street . At the end of this road I turn right into my road and back home for a coffee and the crossword in the paper.

Like a lot of the houses in these side street,s the terrace houses are single Bay and forecourt two or three bed houses, the larger houses like the ones in Devonshire Avenue are Double bay three or four bed houses, and many have front Gardens as well, this shows how the class structure was in Victorian Portsmouth.

The Majority of the single bay and forecourt houses in this area were built around 1900 to 1902 to house the thousands of families of the men who worked in the Royal Naval Dockyard and other military bases in Portsmouth as Portsea (the area around the dockyard) became overcrowded.

So there we are people, hope you enjoyed that little tour of the area in which I live. so at least I got some exercise in, this took me about 50 minutes to complete including five sit downs for taking the photograph,s. 

Hope it did not bore you to much , but it is important to me that I get some exercise in while I can.

So Did I lose any weight ???????

It will take more than one day of exercise to get that much weight off 

The Answer is NO, well what did you expect I will try again tomorrow.

So until my next post probably at the weekend I will say ....................


2 comments:

  1. Thank you Coco61, Portsmouth is a very old city and Royal Naval Port, dating back to c1194 and the Home Port of HMS Victory, Nelson,s Flag ship.

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