In the fourth entry of our Know Your Walkers series, we meet Catherine, from Scotland. She’ll be a member of Team Ocelot
Catherine is a full-time mom to William, who will be two-and-a-half years old by the time of The Walk. She lives in Newburgh, Fife, which she describes as “a small place where the Tay really starts to widen out into estuary. It is home to the largest reed-beds in Britain, and there have been people here for millenia. In fact there was a hollowed-out log boat found in Carpow just a mile or two away recently. Sometimes William and I walk down to the river at low tide, gaze at the bricks, tyres etc stuck in the mud and wonder what else is down there.”
Next year Catherine and her fiance Richard are getting married. “A smallish wedding in a garden next to a ruined castle in Fife near where we live,” she says. Richard will also be on The Walk, along with his dad Walter.
She and Richard are friends with Oli “Trebuchet” Walker, which is how she found Dan’s blog. She explains, “I mostly lurked til his description of The Walk brought me out of my hidey-hole. I’ve started my own wee blog, Some Vague Utopia, really just to participate in the blogging community rather than feeling like a stalker!”
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Along the trail, expect to hear Richard and his dad singing old folk tunes, while Catherine will walk along humming Peppa Pig.
As for footwear, “We spent a fortune (for us) on walking boots for me last month, Ardbeg boots, brown, leather, made in Yorkshire, size four and a half extra wide. They actually fit though, which makes a change!”
Catherine’s a novice walker. “I’m more of a first-timer so I’m there to stretch the old legs, get moving, and of course to boast about having walked across England at the end of it all.” Richard and Walter, however, are experienced walkers who have hiked the West Highland Way and are looking forward to the next challenge.
She hasn’t thought much about an unnecessary luxury item yet. “Richard wants posh base layer underpants, does that count? Probably a dab of makeup for me,” she muses.
Catherine leaves us with a warning: “I go a delicious shade of sweaty beetroot when exercising.”
Catherine blogs at Some Vague Utopia
She’s also electing to camp all the way instead of sleeping in nice comfy beds. The freak.
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Great to put a face to the fellow walkers.
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Dan Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
@Arjan, well, half a face :)
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Glad to know I’m not the only one who looks like a beetroot head when she exercises.
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Eee! It’s meeee!
Hi Arjan!
I must work me face into glorious sweaty beetrootage and start properly training for the walk now. Just as soon as the rain stops….
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Beetroot FTW!
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