Category Archives: Turf

My footsteps gently rustle the carpet of gold, and amber, and rust, on the path before me. A blizzard of autumn leaves gently falls from the beech trees. Further ahead, needles of pine fall silently to the forest floor, blown … Continue reading →

What do the following have in common? Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, Gnasher, Oor Wullie and The Broons. Yes, they are all DC Thomson Comics characters and hail from Dundee. And that’s where this blog starts, the city of Dundee, … Continue reading →

Someone said something to me the other day when I was explaining about turf and the Daily-5 medal. They suggested I was becoming addicted or might even be addicted already. Of course, I immediately said I wasn’t, but this got … Continue reading →

Walkies today, partly a change from cycling or kick scooting and partly due to the terrain I’m planning on visiting. That being the tricky, slippy, slidey, muddy, up and down path along the north side of the River North Esk … Continue reading →

With turf round #136 all but finished and new round #137 beginning, I thought it was time for a quick overview of my last round and also share a few thoughts that have come to mind as well. The first … Continue reading →

After a few months of turfing your local patch it can become rather tedious taking the same old zones time after time. So, what I do is try to make my turfing sessions an adventure, even a mini adventure, or … Continue reading →

Having recently order another kick scooter, the folding Swifty One, I felt the need to be out on the kick scooter again. But there was the problem, I just couldn’t decide where to actually go. On the plus side, I … Continue reading →

Today’s turf blog makes a slight departure from actual turfing, from actually visiting zones and taking them, and delves more into the means to provide the ability to turf. It is also born from excitement on my part. In fact, … Continue reading →

My original plan today was to nip along the Dalkeith to Penicuik cycleway as far as Rosewell, have an easy spin around the village and Whitehill estate with my trusty iron steed, Ogre, and grab enough zones for my Five-A-Day. … Continue reading →