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The woman who walked Wales
LYNNE WALSH introduces us to Ursula Martin, who, on being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 32, decided to set off on a 3,700-mile trek, around her beloved Wales
Ursula Martin (right) at the finish line

THE list of things that conspire to make me an incipient Grumpy Old Woman grows longer, especially around March 8.

The insistence on “celebrating,” for one. We don’t have equal pay! Cause for complaint, rather than celebration, I think.

And another thing, people who “battle” illness, especially cancer. They’re always brave, they’re always fighters, they “overcome” or they “lose the fight.” 

Boots off for breakfast by the Usk reservoir
Ursula constructed a tarp shelter on Sarn Helen
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