A Time of Magic

Greenways are the in thing these days basically because they let councils show an eco friendly face, use what would ordinarily be waste land and collect lots of grant money.

That said, they do provide genuine advantages to the communities through which they run. For instance, the disused railway embankment behind our house had became largely a muddy path surrounded by weeds which were regularly set fire to over the summer. That was maybe a decade or so ago when they decided that it should be a greenway.

Over a fairly short period of time, the muddy path was replaced by a tarmac one, the weeds were cut back and trees were planted along the route. We all thought that the burning would continue but in fact it’s never happened since.

The only downside now is that the greenway was put in a little bit too soon as it doesn’t have the lighting that later ones have so you can’t really use it at night. In fact, that’s just one of a whole raft of improvements that we’ll see in a second similar scheme that’s being created as from this November. I’ve walked along parts of what’ll be the new route and they seriously need a cleaning out but in a few years time that’ll all change.

A bit of a gimmic name-wise, but one that’s worth having for all the plus points that it attracts.

To be honest the approach that we initially took was simply to choose the cheapest one on the shelves of the local supermarket.

Funnily enough, that one proved to work better than any of those that we chose subsequently after making what seemed like a sensible amount of research reading hydroxycut reviews and indeed reviews of everything that we thought of.

It turned out that the most expensive ones and those that were the most complicated to actually buy were by far the least effective for us. There wasn’t one single reason for that but, for example, the likes of Alli weren’t at all effective for the simple reason that we were eating a low fat diet and they’d nothing to work with.

With both the little guys going to both football and rugby coaching these days we’re finding that the number of sports trophies is building up at quite a hectic rate.

In the summer sporting coaching sessions they accumulated four trophies and two certificates between them. Although it probably sounds like a nice idea to put the certificates on the walls, we realised very quickly that it wasn’t going to be in any way a viable option as one wall would already be pretty much full with them.

The certificates aren’t too much of a problem though as we can keep them filed away but you can’t really do that with the trophies which sometimes seem to be building up at an alarming rate. As it is, within one year they’ve clocked up enough between them to fill the little shelf above the fire!