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Sep 10
Day 11: Henley to Marlow
Dry and a beautiful walk. Chains of pleasure boats. I wonder if I would be bored on a boat. I think I would be. I was going blind recently. Seriously I was unable to read, and it got worse quickly. Then a consultant in Oxford lasered my eyes; once I was blind, and now I …
Sep 09
Day 10: Reading to Henley
Queen Elizabeth is dead: Long live King Charles 111 Sad day and a great loss of a magnificent woman. The only time I met her was unfortunate. As a Scots Guards officer, I was asked to go to Dane in Holyrood to dance with Edinburgh maidens, Highland reels are a sort of war, not a …
Sep 08
Day 9: Streatley to Reading
The Scots call it “drookit”, and that is good enough for me. We were drenched in a proper downpour. We went from drought to Noah’s Ark in a single hour. Neither Jane nor I mind walking in the rain, as we were brought up in the Scottish Borders and in Edinburgh, that is what one …
Sep 07
Day 8: Rest Day
The Limits of Forgiveness How can we offer forgiveness on behalf of people we don’t know or have never even met? The famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal illustrated this with a story that began on 10 October 1944. At the time, he was a young architect incarcerated in Janowska Concentration Camp, just …
Sep 06
Day 7: Shillingford to Streatley
Woke World Napoleon said that you should never disturb your enemy when he’s making a gross mistake. Why do our enemies, such as Jihadists, Putin and the man in North Korea with the funny haircut, bother to bomb or poison us in the UK when we are making such a good job of destroying ourselves? …
Sep 05
Day 6: Abingdon to Shillingford
Name Dropping With apologies to Mark Twain, I have been involved in many startling events in my time – some of which actually happened! On 10 April 1994, I took tea with Mother Teresa. She had heard from a friend that I knew the Minister of Housing (I did), with whom she wanted a meeting. …
Sep 04
Day 5: Port Meadow to Abingdon
Talked to Jacqui on the way and she is a delightful English teacher from Oxford. She tells me her mother is a ZANE supporter and she wondered what else her Mum might do to help the cause? I suggested she might leave a large chunk of her estate to ZANE. Jacqui looked thoughtful. A long …
Sep 03
Day 4: Bablock Hythe to Port Meadow
A jolly party consisting of two loyal friends – who deserve a gold medal for cheerfulness and endurance – and daughter Clare, the Chaplain of Christ Church in Oxford. She brought Layla with her, so she and our dog Moses palled up, and they ran all day. Moses lies like a corpse now, as tired …
Sep 02
Day3: Buckland Marsh to Bablock Hythe
Nearly turned my ankle trying to avoid the vast number of cracks in the path caused by a lack of rain. Then Jane is furious with me for allowing gates to slam in her face. She has every right to be cross. The problem is that when I walk, I go into a sort of …
Sep 01
Day 2: Lechlade to Buckland Marsh
How stupid can you get! Fancy being daft enough to go walking in the UK without a waterproof! The Princess Royal says wisely that there is no such thing as bad weather, merely inappropriate clothing and, boy, did we prove that true today! There have only been a couple of times in the walks when …