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Sep 20
Break Day 3
Now is the time for me to read ‘Power and Pragmatism” by past Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind who is speaking for ZANE in early November. An excellent and insightful book about an extraordinary career by a man crackling with ability and high achievement. Defence Secretary and foreign Secretary and today an elder statesman whose views …
Sep 19
Break Day 2
I managed to slip down a flight of stairs in my stockinged feet in one of our host’s houses and jammed the little toe of my left foot in the banisters. This brilliant move may have broken my fall but it twisted the toe just this side of snapping. Not a good move in the …
Sep 18
Break Day 1
We walk back towards Stratford to pick up the car and leave for a couple of days off. Marcus, our excellent driver. comments about Jane’s and my relationship and tell me we are a great team. I ask him who he thinks is the boss? He grins: “it’s obvious, ” he says. “Jane of course,” …
Sep 17
Day 9: Alcester to Pillerton Hersey
Last night we had dinner with the talented and rightly famous cricket star Andy Flower. In 2003, Andy and Henry Olonga decided to wear black armbands in an international match in Harare to mark the horrors taking place in their beloved country. Because of the violence of the row they generated both men decided that …
Sep 15
Day 8: Kington to Alcester
We walked from Kington to outside Alchester. Warm and muggy. We had lunch in yet another pub that clearly buys bulk food from a wholesaler who guarantees that none of the recipes need cooking, so the food – if you can call it that – just requires slapping on a plate by anyone. No skill …
Sep 15
Extra: Three-legged Walking
Sent from Tom Benyon Jnr to the Benyon family this morning: — There have been some amazing fund raising feats for Zane this month in the family. Milly and the boys have conquered the three peaks (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Milly-Sinclair) Granny and Bubba are hiking the pathways of the UK as I write. But as we know these …
Sep 14
Day 7: Worcester to Kington
We walk from Worcester where we have been right royally hosted for two days in a lovely house bang in the middle of the town. Off we trot on a muggy, overheated day towards Kington accompanied by Clendon and Camilla Daukes, loyal walkers over the years and fun to be with for we never stop …
Sep 13
Day 6: Rest Day
We took the day off which us just as well as it has deluged! This was the day we were reliably informed would be the warmest ever, so it sounds as if the forecasters are the same folk who forecast the Brexit result! We went in search of an iPad charger, having left the last …
Sep 12
Day 5: Into Worcester
Worcester Sores A miserable morning when everything seemed to go wrong: the fields were wired up, the gateways blocked with nettles, the paths in the Suckley wood eight miles from Worcester appeared to be circular and we were both convinced we were going in ever decreasing circles and would end up our backsides. Then after …
Sep 12
Day 4: Ullingswick to Worcester
Summer Nights The British appear to be immune to cold. I suppose this is just as well, as most of the time living in the UK is a bit like inhabiting the bottom of a well… Sixty years ago, Noel Coward memorably sang to his fellow colonials, “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the …