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Sep 24
Day 11: Claydon to Blakesley
We walk a full twelve miles through Northamptonshire countryside where we hunted with the Grafton Hunt all those years ago; memories of the wide fields and the golden bricks of the houses all flooded back to us. Charles Clayton was the CEO of the UK international charity, World Vision, and now one of his consultancies …
Sep 22
Day 10: Pillerton Hersey to Claydon
A couple of calls that are hard to cope with without giving terminal offence… A dear friend with a great heart want to join our teams in Zimbabwe and “help the poor.” The trouble is that it is not as simple as it sounds. Unschooled friends always need a great deal of looking after and …
Sep 21
Break Day 4
Another day off to allow my injured little toe to recover its poise. The colour has subsided from vermillion to a delicate pink and the pain has lowered to my gloomy awareness that there is still some way to go. I want the toe to recover but not so much as I forfeit whatever sympathy …
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 …