LIMPING ALONG

One thing you need to be able to do when conducting a tour is walk, which I am finding rather difficult at the moment with a gammy knee. Sometimes I feel OK to walk but a flight of stairs is a real problem. the longer I do the job the more I realise that in my early days I set a cracking pace and often left people behind. I am now at the age when I am of a similar vintage to the people I take around - when i started I was often the youngest and fittest in the party. Have a soctor's appointment and have had X ray so should get a clearer picture when I am back from next tour. Operation may be needed and would like to schedule that for New year which is probably wildly optimistic with our NHS.
Also limping laong is THE GUIDE BOOK which I should be able to finish this winter. It is a lovely autumn and as I am staying in Sussex the temptation to stroll along the seafront and enjoy the sea and setting sun is often too much, which is maybe no bad thing. With no television and only a small circle of people we know in the area and an empty diary I should be motoring on with my plan for the new book but i have been a bit lethargic. Not unusual at the end of the season> Will soon be up and running. Really.