Mrs P.L.'s Walking Challenge: Day 30

Tonight was the final night of my better half's walking challenge. Leaving the house at 6.30, we got home at two minutes to midnight to maximise her step. Here are tonight's pics from the walk.

This friendly feline was a firm favourite sight of this evening's 23k step challenge.

The Brunswick was the penultimate beverage of the month-long step count. Very quiet tonight, but a real cosy boozer.

We then headed to the No-Sign so Mrs P.L. could finally taster her fist Murphy's in years.

The bartender lit the fire for which, which although was a little too comforting...

...Which meant we had to skidaddle to make every step count by walking all the way home by midnight. This was not helped by tonight being the start of Divali, which illuminated Swansea Bay by a mesmerising display of firework.

Reaching The Uplands, the lateness of the hour made us forego our planned last beverage of the night and up our pace dramatically as we hit the hill!

I was exhausted by the time we made it to our door and piled into our house. My ring-toes were sore on each foot, but Mrs P.L. was happy with the final step count. And despite the enjoyment and cool sights of the past 30 nights, we were both looking forward to spending some evenings at home 🙂

Mrs P.L.'s Walking Challenge: Day 29

Yay, looks like the circus is back in town! 

Shook things up a bit tonight with a new route on my better half's walking challenge.

Along which, we took in -

Brynmill Park:

Swansea University grounds:

Singleton Park:

The Pub on the Pond:

Swansea Rec, where we parked again, and which now hosts the visiting circus:

And One-Eyed Willies:

We then headed back via The Rainbow Wall:

Ghostly Crabs

Just finished my first draft of my crabby ghost story. Sat down with pen and paper this afternoon to jot down a few lines and was suddenly carried away until the tale reached its conclusion!

The Plough and Harrow

No steps for me this weekend as I worked overtime on both Saturday and Sunday. In fact, the only time I poked my nose out of the door was Sunday evening as Mrs P.L. had promised a friend that she would support him as he pplayed down on the live mic The Plough and Harrow:

Halloween Pop Funko 2025 - The Wolfman

Snuck a few spare minutes to get these 2 versions of The Wolfman photographed:

#caturday

This sight greeted me yrsterday morning when I went dowmstaors to het ready got work. Little fidjcat has been playing with this toy and called it her own since my children were young lol. 🙂

Bad

Not the best of days. Double dosed my ibuprofen so had to telephone 111 to find out all was okay. Then I ate out at The George in Mumbles...

The Geoge

Unfortunately, even though it was labelled vegan, thr butter they put on their 'Countryside Greens' was not dairy-milk free. 

This resulted in heavy sneezing on my walk back to the car, which soon blossomed in body-wide hive the size of five-pennyy bits, followed shortly therearter by an inching fit that threatened to push me to madness.

When1 reached home, I was good. for nothing and, wheezing, dropped some antihistamines and fell straight in bed.

Throbbing Ring-Toe

There is a definite chill creeping into the night and this late evening's walk necessitated a hat, hoody and winter coat to combat the cold.

The Observatory

The Observatory Staircase

No Sign

Guildhall

Brangwyn Hall

Secret Bar

Finally Reaching our Car -
Right Foot Ring-Toe Throbbing

A Beautiful Swansea Sunset

After my research/writing session, I met up with my lovely better half to do a whopping 20k step walk:

My wife's walking challenge is coming to close this weekend. I never thought I'd admit it, but I gonna miss them. I feel a lot healthier from the nightly walks that have filled my time. And I have also enjoyed out pub and bar visits. I have some overtime this weekend to help pay for all our meals and drinks we have consume whilst exploring.

Swansea Library

I took the opportunity to work on my ghostly giant crabs story for the next Guy N Smith fanzine down in the city library this evening. This will be my last ever visit to this location as the council are selling the building and the library is closing in a couple of day as it prepares to move into the city centre :(

Surely this is/was the beautifully located central library in the whole of the country?

I did a fair bit of crab research, as well as writing a several pages of the story itself as the sun sunk lower through the trees that line Swansea Bay:

An early evening very well spent :)