Teaching the baby to crawl....
....and she's faster than her Dad.
Yesterday (the day of the office move) I managed to escape from work at 3pm with the plan of walking the 8.3 miles home along the Thames path from the Embankment to Richmond.
In brief summary, it's a beautiful walk except around Chelsea and Wandsworth where the local planning office decided that the Thames path wasn't worth keeping and built over it forcing walkers to go in-land. There are some amazing buildings and homes along the walk and you get a very different perspective of living in London. There are also some stunning, but unfortunately derelict, warehouse buildings along the way - maybe one day we'll buy and refurbish one and have it as an office.....
Anyway, one of the reasons I was keen to get the walk under my belt was that I've been having some problems with my heel and I wanted to see whether a good long walk would cause more problems, or I could just live with it as it is.
After the first hour the pain started to increase, by the second hour I had to stop and have 5 minute breaks a few times, by the third hour it was really painful and by the fourth, at 8.3miles I was stuggling to walk.
When I got into the house I ended up crawling as it was too painful to stand up.
My wife, the good doctor, diagnosed Plantar Fascitis (a tendon problem), and told me I was an idiot.
Ice pack and a few glasses of wine later and the world seemed a better place, but lying in bed writing this on Saturday morning, the pain is still very much there and it's a problem walking......
But in good news, at least it will be a day spent teaching the baby to crawl and at the rate she's progressing I'm betting that she'll be faster around the house than me!
About the Author
Hi there, I'm Duncan Goose the founder of Global Ethics, the company behind the One brand and I'm really delighted that occasionally I get to jot down a few thoughts here on our blog. My background is in marketing but the catalyst for creating Global Ethics happened as a result of a two year motorbike trip around the world between '98 and 2000.
It was an amazing odyssey and I was fortunate to have people all over the world take me under their wing when it went wrong - as it sometimes did. I learnt a lot about humanity and about the kindness of strangers.
When I left, I knew 3 neighbours in my street in London, and having just moved in London again, I've made a point of getting to know all of them. I often say that if you knew a neighbour in your street was starving, or dying of HIV, you'd do something to help them and this is kind of what One has started to do - abeit on a global scale. We're all neighbours, but sometimes we just don't realise it.
We're changing lives, one person, one day at a time. It's a legacy project - but one we can all be part of.
And it's hugely exciting.
