Do What You Can Where you Are With What You Have LOVE being able to share this motto as part of this challenge. It is a family motto that’s painted on a barn at the entrance to our family farm for as long as I can remember! It certainly applied to me on some days when I was running around the garden to get the last few steps in to 10,000 and to some others when on calls all day 📱(Thinking of you Ilaria with the cones set up in your office space too). Pictured below are my two nieces in front of the barn and motto, and bonus picture of them posing on bales of hay! Thanks everyone for sharing an insight to your journeys on this wonderful challenge and to you Ilaria for organising! One of the most enjoyable tasks during the integration! 🎉

Happy to finish the challenge with a hike up to these wonderful megalithic tombs which I am lucky to have on my doorstep. Dating back to 3,000 BC, Cairn T pictured here is one of the oldest still standing man-built structures in the world! 😯 Also pictured you can see the carvings inside Cairn T and some of the fallen tombs around it. As you can see the views from the top of the mountain are spectacular, and I made a wish that we would reach our MSD challenge goal while sitting on the Hag’s chair! (also pictured) 🧙‍♀️

Today we went for a lovely walk in Fore Valley, which homes the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey and is said to have 7 Wonders, which include water that doesn’t boil and a tree that won’t burn… 😵‍💫 I don’t know about that, but it is a wonder that I decided to scale the walls to climb upon the arch in the name of a good photo! 👍🏼 A beautiful place steeped in history, and got my 4000 steps in doing so!

Just what the doctor ordered! Does anyone else spend more time taking photos than they do walking or is it just me? 🤪 Have really learned to enjoy the beauty of my surroundings thanks to this challenge! 🇮🇪

The rain in Ireland and unexpected fatigue from my second COVID vaccine has meant a less adventurous day for me today… I’ve been trying to get my steps in between rain showers by doing laps of the garden 🤣 Checking in with this photo of our recently planted garden rockery and the view of the local town from our back garden for today! Happy to be fully vaccinated! 💉 Hope all of you enjoy the football tonight ⚽️