I slept like a log. The day dawned grey, damp and cool - like an English Bank Holiday. Excellent breakfast by my host. She was a theatrical scenery painter in Paris, but fled to the country with her musician partner some decades ago. She had a successful business making Hopi ear candles (for an avid …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 2 la Grange Teillard to Chasnay 21 kms
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.
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 …
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 …
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. …
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