Day 1: The day started early. I was awake at 04.30, fiddling with this site. Got up at 06.30 in time for Lauds at 7 in the basilica. Lovers of Vézelay will be interested to know that there a big restoration project going on of the first four bays of the nave. So you enter …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 1.2 Vézelay to La Grange Teillard – 30k
Day 1 - Beginnings Lauds at 7am. Then breakfast. Then depart. The square at 06.45 I shall be humming Bunyan's Pilgrim Song.
It is so hard to describe anyone without reducing or pigeon-holing them. But, so that you have an idea about who I am, here are a few headlines.I am a retired Church of England priest. Husband, father, grandfather.Gay, political, activist.Musician, singer, theologian.Needleworker, cook, gardener.Wild swimmer, walker, naturist. I have been blessed with so much in …
I am about to start a pilgrimage walk. I am now fully retired and so have the chance to do this now that I don't sing from Thursday to Sunday every week of the school year. I have for longer than I can say wanted to follow the Camino, or the pilgrimage route across Western …
We have just started watching the latest series of Grantchester, the clerical murder mysteries set in the eponymous village near Cambridge. The date is 1958, and the timid curate, Leonard Finch, has, with great tentativeness, started to come out of his closet, and embarked upon a very secretive and illegal relationship with a local photographer. …
Continue reading An anniversary: and some weddings and funerals
The publication of the ‘lessons-learnt’ report commissioned by Emmanuel Church Wimbledon on the activities of their former vicar, Jonathan Fletcher, has stirred a lot of memories for me. And because they go round and round in my head, I have decided to write them down. This may be quite long, as I am going to …
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