Blank page syndrome strikes. What on earth do you put in a very first, really first ever blog page?

I suppose I could start by boring the pants off the world with a biography – OK, so I’m Keith from London, I’m 69 and I enjoy walking. Done. Out of the way – for now at least.

I might try to explain why I’m here, since a daily diary of my strolls here and there isn’t going to set the world alight. This blog is going to become more important as the months roll on, and eventually I shall use it as a record of a big trek I have in mind for late summer 2019. Much more will follow about that, but it is a 240-mile two-week journey from my front door in London to the west of Wales, small roads and footpaths all the way. 

This will be no tough Himalayan trek, nor will there be any rough camping – think of it more as a sort of Borrovian gentleman’s pedestrian tour.

Not only that, it will be a journey across a post-Brexit country, and an exploration of whatever and whoever I meet along the way. 

It will need some training – it would not be sensible to take an ageing, if reasonably fit body out on a 20-miles-a-day journey without some preparation. It will also need some decisions on gear. All this will be worked through on these pages.

In the months ahead I will put together some words and pictures on the kinds of stroll that I do anyway, although I’m definitely not promising regular or frequent posts.

Everyone will be pleased to hear that…