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Ticks and how to remove them

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Lyme Disease UK Online Support – How to Correctly Remove a Tick


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TICKS AND LYME DISEASE

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MAY is tick awareness month and an important reminder of the need to avoid the blood-sucking parasites that can carry a number of dangerous diseases to humans and pets. Among the diseases is Lyme disease and as more people go out and about in the fine weather, it’s important to to be aware of the


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Challenge yourself

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The Jurassic Ultra Challenge, 14th May, 2022 A few of the ‘Purple team’ decided to take on some extra miles of the Jurassic coast and no excuse needed for a weekend at the seaside! Superbly organised by ULTRA CHALLENGE, there are various distances available, 10km, 25km, 34km, 42km, 50km or even 100km for the truly


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The Benefits of Nordic Walking

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Nordic Walking is quite unique in that it provides benefits for everybody from those with medical problems to the super fit. Whatever age, fitness level or goal, – Nordic Walking is suitable, effective and enjoyable. Physical Benefits Tones the upper and lower body at the same time Uses 90% of the skeletal muscles Burns up to


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The Purbeck Walx Walking Festival, 2022

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The Purbeck WALX festival team are busy planning new walks and workshops for 2022 but you can rest assured that all of the most popular iconic favourites will be back and where possible made available on each of the 3 days to give everybody a chance to experience the best HATTIE BROWNS BREWERY TOUR WALK


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Is it better to run or walk?

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So many people who join my group do so because they used to run but no longer feel that they can continue (mainly due to injury).  They are often surprised that Nordic Walking can tick many of the boxes that running did (in terms of feel -good factor and energy burn).  Here are some things


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Wonderful Walk in the Chess Valley

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Wednesday Walkabout on 18th May was a fab walk from Chorleywood station to Chalfont and Latimer along the Chess Valley – we had a crystal clear river, wide open fields, shady woodlands, watercress beds and horses. Lunch at The Bedford Arms was an added bonus, bur we felt like we had earned it after 7.5


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STAY MOTIVATED!

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Staying motivated for any length of time is tough, isn’t it? Goals can make a massive difference in your life. And you will, no doubt, have plenty of reasons to try and achieve that goal. But sometimes we still need more than that to stay on track and stay focused on the result. Some goals


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There’s more to walking in a Wellness Walk

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We  always practise our balancing on a Monday wellness walk as part of the overall fitness we work on as well as our stamina, fexibility and strength.


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Happy Easter 2022!

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What fab weather we had over Easter and great to see people out on Easter Saturday at Whitefield Moor.  The best thing about having a workout is that we don’t need to feel guilty about eating chocolate afterwards!!!


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Itchen Abbas Evening Walk!

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Walking through beautiful golden fields in the Itchen valley.


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Friday evening Bluebell walk at Hinton Ampner

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Hinton Ampner did not disappoint on Friday evening’s walk! There were blankets of Bluebells in the woods, Lambs in the fields and fish and chips at the Hinton Arms after the walk!


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