I thought I’d wait a bit after the glut of daily posts. I’m not actually sure the number (68) means anything anymore, (also there was no number 11 seemingly).
Everyone made it back safely, despite storms, covid, vehicle breakdowns, and ferry cancellations (weather and covid).
I was going to write about how my – much tested plumbing- decided to spring a – cold water mains – leak, while I was at work, on my wifes birthday, just as she was sitting down to lunch. But that’s probably the whole (sad) story there, in a nut shell.
Instead I’m going to share a very good friends observations about “Non Linear Exercise”.(?)
As time rolls by, we all get a litle less springy, a little slower, perhaps a lttle wider ( Which I recently saw described as; “easier to see”!). However an overall decline in fitness is not inevitable, and even , at a more mature age (said he, with care), one can still take up some sports and develop new physical skills – running, cycling, swimming….
The point about the three listed (and there are others), is that they work particular muscle groups in a repeditive (linear) way, and even someone my age can still, with practise, devlop those groups, and improve those actions.
However, planting trees. Or rather more specifically, digging holes for planting trees in, especially in “stony ground” – when I started the second hole I thought I’d actually found that bit of ground from the Bible, (“…some fell on Stony ground”[Mathew 13. 20-22] {I had to look it up}), that was untill I started the third hole., which provided not only enough rocks to create decorative borders for the other two, but spares to serve as drainage in a raised bed….
Planting trees, standing, kneeling, digging, troweling, using the pick axe, one handed, left handed, lying down, heaving stones out the ground, shoveling earth into a bucket over your right shoulder, across the hole, standing up to get the trowel back out the bucket wher you accidently threw it, lying back down again with the spade as a support, puuting the tree in, taking the tree out (shaking it all about), hammering in the stakes, pulling the stakes out to hammer them in again in a better place….. THIS, this is “non linear exercise” , and it’s not something you can practise for.
I am sore everywhere.
Next week on IaDL : Why aren’t those teenage boys doing the shoveling (Hahahahaha)
Happy feast Day of the goddess Astra.
Dalmallyfest the Asylum 