Tic tok fake news: nugets of truth among whatever this 25 10 14 ?
On the 14th of October 2025 the day my sister Marion would have been 82 had she like me survived her heart attack, aged 78, but unlike our Aunty Lily who also went in hers, aged 52, like her father and grandfather before her, all of which is to say coronary artery disease is in the genes of the male side of our family.
But today's "tic toc" story concerns this tale about how beneficial walking is for one's health even talking of what happens during the course of an hour's walk each day...
And this just after I had returned from my daily walk, cut short this day because I had loaded up the boot of my car yesterday with 7 bin bags of pine needles from our 12 mature Scots Pine trees on our 1/4 acre of gardens surrounding our house, so today I could off load them dry at the town's yard again in dry weather conditions.
How in the first 10 minutes of walking one's heart becomes oxygenated as more than the usual amount of oxygen is inhaled begins to take effect. A short time thereafter how the endorphins are released: these the feel good chemicals secreted as a result of walking. Then later how the cortisol is eliminated, so called stress chemicals, which accumulate as a result of excessive inactivity. Later still how melatonin and serotonin are released: more of the body's natural feel-good chemicals to do with healthy living.
Most noteable about this day however was when I exited our swim hut on the "Ladies Beach" (so-called because originally it was built for their sole use only some time later being divided to ladies the door on the right, men to the left, after accessing the outer for both parties) I caught sight of two young ladies ahead of me on the track towards the East Harbour. Their speed of walking such that I just had to increase substantially my old man's pace in order to catch up with them though I stayed a comfortable distance behind them of say 10 metres. Then after perhaps 100 metres our paths diverged as mine took me what I believed to be a short-cut, closer the piers for the pleasure craft using the harbour, whilst theirs I believed erroneously to be longer as I still followed catching them up again still in their wake as it were.
Most noteable because the next day 2025 10 15 as I exited our House who should come against me but these two young ladies perhaps nodding a greeting as ppl do if they think they may have seen the person on an earlier occasion in this very normally quiet neighbourhood. But this day special because when maybe 3000 steps later as I again exited the swim hut they had reappeared coming towards me again: unlike yesterday when we had the same route ahead of us. Now the blonde one of the two, her friend darker in hair colour, asked me the temperature of the sea water when I told them it was 10.5 degC, checking it with the thermometer that sits in the water as we leave the water to reascend the steps back to the changing room. When the other lady remarked how today there was no wind. Then it transpired that they were about to have their swim but I thought without towels to dry themselves until they pointed out their car standing some way back, a car I thought belonged to someone in the hut until it occured to me there was no-one but me in the changing room and that the lady's side was evidently vacant.
Clearly they had parked their car and walked the distance to where I live, say at least a distance of 2 x 3000 steps, local ppl they claimed who had formally the habit of swimming on the north side of the peninsula where our town is based. So to summarise my striving to walk as fast as these two younger ppl one would guess were either in their 20's or early 30's who walked briskly for their midday visit for their swim too, on a day I chose to endeavour to walk also at their faster pace, and getting the tale of what we were about from "tic toc".
This offering then a lighter tale concerning what it means to scroll on tic toc occasionally but for the most part it is very depressing with the complicity of the Western Powers in the illegal state of Israel's Genocide that has been raging these last two years: the USA, the EU and the UK principally whils the greater population of these three entities have been supporting the innocent Palestinian ppl and the mainly women and children victims.
"Fake news"? Hardly fake maybe biased yes! But just think how when I was a young man in the 1960's Collonial Britain butchered a million Kikuyu tribesmen which genocide never likewise got into the right wing press at that time learning now 60 years later from instuments like tic toc that Kenya's genocide together with its documentation was subsequently destroyed as if it never took place...
But today's "tic toc" story concerns this tale about how beneficial walking is for one's health even talking of what happens during the course of an hour's walk each day...
And this just after I had returned from my daily walk, cut short this day because I had loaded up the boot of my car yesterday with 7 bin bags of pine needles from our 12 mature Scots Pine trees on our 1/4 acre of gardens surrounding our house, so today I could off load them dry at the town's yard again in dry weather conditions.
How in the first 10 minutes of walking one's heart becomes oxygenated as more than the usual amount of oxygen is inhaled begins to take effect. A short time thereafter how the endorphins are released: these the feel good chemicals secreted as a result of walking. Then later how the cortisol is eliminated, so called stress chemicals, which accumulate as a result of excessive inactivity. Later still how melatonin and serotonin are released: more of the body's natural feel-good chemicals to do with healthy living.
Most noteable about this day however was when I exited our swim hut on the "Ladies Beach" (so-called because originally it was built for their sole use only some time later being divided to ladies the door on the right, men to the left, after accessing the outer for both parties) I caught sight of two young ladies ahead of me on the track towards the East Harbour. Their speed of walking such that I just had to increase substantially my old man's pace in order to catch up with them though I stayed a comfortable distance behind them of say 10 metres. Then after perhaps 100 metres our paths diverged as mine took me what I believed to be a short-cut, closer the piers for the pleasure craft using the harbour, whilst theirs I believed erroneously to be longer as I still followed catching them up again still in their wake as it were.
Most noteable because the next day 2025 10 15 as I exited our House who should come against me but these two young ladies perhaps nodding a greeting as ppl do if they think they may have seen the person on an earlier occasion in this very normally quiet neighbourhood. But this day special because when maybe 3000 steps later as I again exited the swim hut they had reappeared coming towards me again: unlike yesterday when we had the same route ahead of us. Now the blonde one of the two, her friend darker in hair colour, asked me the temperature of the sea water when I told them it was 10.5 degC, checking it with the thermometer that sits in the water as we leave the water to reascend the steps back to the changing room. When the other lady remarked how today there was no wind. Then it transpired that they were about to have their swim but I thought without towels to dry themselves until they pointed out their car standing some way back, a car I thought belonged to someone in the hut until it occured to me there was no-one but me in the changing room and that the lady's side was evidently vacant.
Clearly they had parked their car and walked the distance to where I live, say at least a distance of 2 x 3000 steps, local ppl they claimed who had formally the habit of swimming on the north side of the peninsula where our town is based. So to summarise my striving to walk as fast as these two younger ppl one would guess were either in their 20's or early 30's who walked briskly for their midday visit for their swim too, on a day I chose to endeavour to walk also at their faster pace, and getting the tale of what we were about from "tic toc".
This offering then a lighter tale concerning what it means to scroll on tic toc occasionally but for the most part it is very depressing with the complicity of the Western Powers in the illegal state of Israel's Genocide that has been raging these last two years: the USA, the EU and the UK principally whils the greater population of these three entities have been supporting the innocent Palestinian ppl and the mainly women and children victims.
"Fake news"? Hardly fake maybe biased yes! But just think how when I was a young man in the 1960's Collonial Britain butchered a million Kikuyu tribesmen which genocide never likewise got into the right wing press at that time learning now 60 years later from instuments like tic toc that Kenya's genocide together with its documentation was subsequently destroyed as if it never took place...
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