Unlike so many I see on my daily walk the phone stays in my pocket (unless I am taking a photo) and I keep my head held high even when I am in a middle of a ‘grief burst’. Fortunately though most walks now I am sufficiently distracted by my lovely walking companions, my audiobook or what is around me. The latter is part of the joy of walking, which is why I am always sad when I see so many walking whilst looking down at their phones. They are missing so much of the world around them plus they are a hazard to other pedestrians. Both Robert and I just stop walking and wait for them to look up and move around us, rather than us stepping out of their way! Amazingly it works.

The phone definitely struggles with trees!

PS Before I get any lectures on walking with headphones, I use bone conduction headphones so am never unaware of traffic around me or joggers coming up behind!

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    1. so true, I just don’t get why people can’t put them away for a bit after all very few walk for more than an hour

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  6. Looking up and around is the best way to go… while listening to the chirping of the birds for me! I agree, walking while looking at the phone is so dangerous, I know I did it before…never doing it again. Haha

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  17. The sun has only just managed to find its way out from beneath the fog today, though it will soon be sliding down behind the hill. I have the first of my local walks for you. Meet the neighbours:

    Happy Sheep

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  20. I so agree about people walking around staring at their phones. If you must look at it while walking, step to one side, stop and then look. I tend to deliberately walk towards them to see how late they leave it before noticing me and side-stepping!

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