Taking a break from everything I just had a wonderful weekend in Hampshire visiting a friend. The countryside is more gentle than the Yorkshire Dales where I grew up, but it is countryside. I’d forgotten how much roadkill, and how many dead creatures you find. Especially at this time of year. including, unfortunately, my first […]
Read more "6 April 2015"After a turbulent month, on Saturday I had the most productive day yet in terms of planning my route. But before I get into that I’ll briefly explain what happened that made the month so turbulent. My last days out walking the route before last weekend were 14 and 15 February. I took a break […]
Read more "30 March 2015"What I wanted to write about last week and yesterday is what it’s been like to walk to sections of the route I’ve traced so far. But I’ve found it difficult to find a way to approach it. I’ll try again though. Despite the frustrations my walks, especially last Saturday and a week last Sunday […]
Read more "16 February 2015"A short, out of sequence post here, just to say that the walk is still going to go ahead as planned on 30 May. The reason there haven’t been many updates lately is that I took a couple of weekends off scoping-out the route, and there is now a serious family matter taking up all […]
Read more "4 March 2015"This was a weekend where my goal of walking round the M60 became both more challenging and much closer. On Saturday I was out for nine hours. Around eight and a quarter of those were spent walking. And of that time six hours was devoted to mapping the route. To which I probably added around […]
Read more "15 February 2015"Two days in which I made some serious progress on defining part of the route, although it didn’t always feel that way. Especially the case today when I made no progress on the ground, despite walking for a total of six hours. When I set out I spent some time calculating how long it might […]
Read more "8 February 2015"In 2009 I recorded a lot of sound art. As the year progressed I grew increasingly interested in field recordings and the physicality of sound – particularly the body and the voice. Alongside the self-released CDr’s I put together I recorded a set of sound pieces for Tom Jenks’ zimZalla press (1). This set of […]
Read more "31 January 2015"For no particular reason I’ve settled on the last Saturday of May – the 30th – to attempt my walk. That gives me 17 weeks to train and make all my preparations. I also had my most detailed look at the map today. I discovered two things immediately: I’m already familiar with at least the […]
Read more "30 January 2015"I’ve decided that this diary, and the rest of my currently quite vague preparation process, run the risk of turning into prevarication. Therefore I’m going to set myself a date for the walk, set up a blog, and sort out a sponsorship page once I’ve decided which charity will benefit. This I hope will encourage […]
Read more "28 January 2015"I managed to not make a start on checking out the route at the weekend. That said, on Saturday morning I spent around 15 minutes outside [barefoot]. It was very painful.
Read more "26 January 2015"
Matt's big M60 walk 