I go out for at least two hours a day walking. I go to the Leeds and Liverpool canal, round Horsforth, Headingley. I go by myself. I keep to myself; I don’t actually talk to people as such. If they say “good morning”, or what have you I say “good morning” back.

I’ve been doing it for months. I just can’t stop in my flat, so it gets me out for a few hours. I wake up in the morning and know that I’m going out anyway, so I think “I’ll have a walk down on the canal”, it’s nice, especially on a sunny day, when all the water’s glistening.

You see all the birds; the ducks and sometimes a couple of white swans on the canal. You get a lot of younger people walking up and down, some of them jogging, others are cycling, backwards and forwards. There are dog walkers, or couples holding hands, or single women or men walking up and down the canal. You always get a smile or a ”good morning”.

It makes you feel as though you’re alive. As somebody, after all this time, who’s not been with people… you feel a lot better in yourself. It’s better than having tablets!