27 May 10, 12.28PM
Tom Franklin’s message
Around 12,000 Ramblers volunteers donate their time and skills to the cause we believe in: a walking Britain…
Tags: Ramblers, Tom Franklin
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26 May 10, 15.44PM
Will Self: Capital rights
Best-selling author and Lambeth resident Will Self argues that any new definitive maps of the capital’s footpaths should help create more rights of way for London’s walkers
As a committed urban trekker, I welcome the Ramblers’ campaign to make inner London [...]
Tags: opinion, urban walking, Will Self
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26 May 10, 13.29PM
Christopher Somerville’s A-Z of walking
J is for Jollity – you know, that thing we associate with walking. Don’t we, lads and lasses? Heard this ’un? The missus, she’s so bow-legged, she can walk over Ingleborough on both sides at once. Eh? Boom-tish, eh? Come [...]
Tags: Christopher Somerville, humour, opinion
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26 May 10, 13.11PM
Christopher Somerville’s A-Z of walking: F
F is for Flora and Fauna – my favourite outdoor twins.
Tags: biodiversity, Christopher Somerville, history, humour
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25 May 10, 17.02PM
Roy Hattersley: The land belongs to us
Life peer and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Roy Hattersley recalls a century of political struggle for public access to the countryside that surrounds his Derbyshire home…
Tags: opinion, rural environment
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25 May 10, 11.10AM
Walking Class Hero: Everybody Yurts
Fed up with this new posh boy coalition politics I’m down in Brighton looking for evidence of the Green revolution
Tags: Brighton, FA Cup Final, The Great Escape, Walking Class Hero
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7 May 10, 11.02AM
Brian Jones: Canes Venatici
Although only tiny, the constellation Canes Venatici is notable in that it plays host to the celestial showpiece M3…
Tags: astronomy, night-walking
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6 May 10, 10.28AM
Walking Class Hero: Walking to work
Last week (26-30 April 2010) was Walk to Work Week…So if I haven’t got any work to walk to does this make this an ironic act?
Tags: Ramblers Metropolitan Walkers, The Ramblers, Walk to Work, Walking Class Hero
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20 Apr 10, 15.33PM
Walking Class Hero: All that is solid melts into air
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: General Election, Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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12 Apr 10, 15.58PM
Walking Class Hero: A flaneur in the works
Waking up Thursday morning it was like winter had finally packed its bags and b*ggered off…
Tags: Baudelaire, cricket, flaneur, rock n roll, Walking Class Hero
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