That’s me done 20% of the Walk 1000 Miles challenge. So 204.25 miles down and 795.75 miles remaining!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
WOW! Would love to get locked in a helmet!
WOW! Just WOW! I so need someone to lock me inside my helmet! Something, very, very hot and sexy about it!
WOW! Got Bugsy FOUR years ago!!
WOW! So hard to believe that we got Bugsy FOUR years ago!! I could not be more happy with him! He’s so amazing! I can’t start to tell you, just how much, I love him!!
Think, I tell him at least 1,000 times a day! How much he means to me!
Many more photos of him can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/bugsy/
VeloViewer Infographic : 10 March 2026 @veloviewer
So far during 2026, I’ve done 337 miles of exercise. Which is made up of 143 miles of cycling and 194 miles of walking.
Where it says running… That’s my walking data!
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Longest walks during 2026 so far : 9 March 2026
Here is list of my longest walks so far during 2026.
- Cross Britain Way : Day 016 : Broughton Lodge to Wymeswold – 02/03/2026 – 10.13 miles
- Cross Britain Way : Day 015 : Hickling to Broughton Lodge – 23/02/2026 – 9.22 miles
- Orston Circular with Bugsy, Mark and Ted – 09/02/2026 – 5.06 miles
- Afternoon Sandringham Estate walk with Bugsy and Ted – 09/03/2026 – 3.45 miles
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On This Day back in 2022. Cooper passed away…
On This Day back in 2022. Cooper, my dog, my best friend, my wee baby. Passed away after a very short illness.
Even 4 years later. Still can’t get my head around it. He was my whole world. Still miss him each and everyday!!
Of course, tell Bugsy and Ted about him each and every day.
We really did have some amazing adventures with him! Many more photos of Cooper can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/cooper/
Now done 16% of Walk 1000 Miles – 2026
That’s me done 16% of the Walk 1000 Miles challenge. So 169.19 miles down and 830.81 miles remaining!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
UK TV programmes to watch this week : 28/02/2026
Call the Midwife (BBC 1/HD | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Sunday 1st March 2026)
A cohort of junior doctors, including Timothy Turner, join the midwives on their district rounds, while Violet turns her hand to midwifery.
Silent Witness (BBC 1/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Monday 2nd March 2026)
Shame (Part 1/2). Series 29, episode 9. Nikki, Jack, Harriet and Kit must navigate complex international tensions as they investigate the apparent suicide of a British-Chinese pro-democracy activist. Nikki uncovers evidence the woman was already dead before she supposedly drowned herself, and that she may have had a price on her head set by the Hong Kong government, who viewed her as a threat to national security.
Silent Witness (BBC 1/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Tuesday 3rd March 2026)
Shame (Part 2/2). Series 29, episode 10. Mei Li reveals her life is at risk because she is a pro-democracy protester who organised a demonstration to free a political prisoner. Kit finds the arrest warrant for Mei Li, which states there is a bounty of $1 million for her capture, leading the team to wonder if they are looking at state-sponsored murder. However, the case takes an unexpected turn with the death of a second victim, while Burns reveals the identity of the dead woman originally thought to have been Mei Li. But as Nikki follows up further evidence, she soon finds herself in danger.
All TV guide information taken from DigiGuide — www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=15119
Now done 14% of Walk 1000 Miles – 2026
That’s me done 14% of the Walk 1000 Miles challenge. So 141.85 miles down and 858.15 miles remaining!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
UK TV programmes to watch this week : 21/02/2026
Silent Witness (BBC 1/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Monday 23rd February 2026)
Grace of God (Part 1). Series 29, episode 7. Part one of two. Jack vents the rage he feels over the violence he encounters at work by getting into a drunken bar brawl. He faces a dilemma when the man he was fighting later turns up dead. He must decide whether to involve Nikki and the Bowman team, as he struggles to remember if he killed the man.
Silent Witness (BBC 1/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Tuesday 24th February 2026)
Grace of God (Part 2). Series 29, episode 8. Part two of two. Jack awakes in prison and quickly realises one of his fellow inmates is Marcus Retford, against whom he gave evidence in a case. Realising he is in danger, he asks a guard if he can be moved for his own safety. At the Bowman Centre, the team are desperate to prove their colleague’s innocence and work on the identity of the mystery body. But with Retford and his sidekick making it clear that Jack is in their sights, Nikki and the team don’t have much time to spare.
Death in Paradise (BBC 1/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Friday 27th February 2026) ** PICK OF THE WEEK **
A cast member is poisoned during a performance of The Tempest after drinking from a bottle of red wine with a lethal quantity of cyanide in, but the team are left confused as to how two other actors drank from the same bottle and emerged unscathed. Mervin is informed that his half-brother Solomon is set to inherit everything from their deceased mother and he won’t answer any calls.
All TV guide information taken from DigiGuide — www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=15119