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  • Big Timber – A Netflix Documentary Series

    Big Timber – A Netflix Documentary Series

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I have been watching a few documentary series on Netflix. Big Timber is one of them. Usually I like nature that is untouched. I like to see trees that are standing tall and proud, not on their sides, ready to be chopped up into wood for housing.  It…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …

  • Minimal Walking – Day 2

    Minimal Walking – Day 2

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI went for a walk with the barefoot shoes for a second day in a row. I didn’t regret it. I need to pay more attention to how I walk, specifically I need to make sure not to slam my heel into the ground with each step and this takes focus, muscle…

  • Thoughts On The Vapour Glove Six

    Thoughts On The Vapour Glove Six

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI walk around in socks when I’m at home, so not quite barefoot, but almost. The idea of barefoot shoes is to get the human body, and especially the lower half to get back in touch with walking barefoot.Yesterday I went for an 8.55km walk in barefoot shoes. I didn’t regret it.…

  • Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

    Earth Day – Some Simple Acts

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is Earth Day, as Google, Moleskine and other companies are reminding us of. Earth Day is an opportunity to think about how to reduce our carbon footprint and ecological impact.  Sigg recently began to sell aluminium water bottles that are made entirely from recycled aluminium. Instead of encouraging us to recycle…

  • Northern Exposure and Blowing Bubbles

    Northern Exposure and Blowing Bubbles

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNorthern Exposure is a series about a doctor who finds himself sent to Alaska to be a doctor for a few years. He thinks that it is the middle of nowhere and he has to adapt from enjoying life as a New Yorker to life as a frontier town doctor.   Although…

  • Muddy Shoes and a Drought

    Muddy Shoes and a Drought

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery morning the landscape is covered in frost. That frost melts and turns to water, which in turn, turns to mud, and cakes my shoes. Unfortunately there has been no rain for weeks, and there is no rain expected for weeks. We are in another drought although most people will not call…

  • A Run And A Walk

    A Run And A Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI am going for a run and a walk three times a week at the moment. The run is set by the Garmin Coach and the walk is set by the route I have chosen to use on that specific day. By running the first part of my daily walk I increase…

  • Mud and Walking

    Mud and Walking

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI go for walks, runs or bike rides every single day, whether it’s rainy, windy, snowy or a heatwave. As a result of this I often walk along routes where mud forms. Sometimes I come home from walks and my shoes are spotless, thanks either to a drought, or paradoxically due to…

  • The Illusion That The Pandemic Is Over

    The Illusion That The Pandemic Is Over

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSwitzerland is living under the illusion that the pandemic is over. If you look at the data on the RTS website and other sources of information such as Cotrack – Grafana then the pandemic is over. The number of new cases has gone done so if you look at the metrics then…