Frostbite becomes you; just let those extremities go

Just a few notes as this place is freezing and we will need to settle down for the night and try to get warm.

Take note, the itinerary is newly updated.... and now....


You know I have been talking about hospitality and related things? Today we have been experiencing all sorts of variations on a theme.

For example, we planned a route which took us across St George’s Hill which is famous for being the place where the diggers placed themselves and where they were brutally dealt with. Not only is the irony seated in the fact that this very same hill is now THE most expensive and exclusive place to live in the London suburbs, it is also where it is so exclusive the local authority information panels referring to the Diggers and pointing out places of interest excludes that very location in order to avoid any riff raff from walking around looking at how this site has been so desecrated by the extremely wealthy. Worse than this is the fact that you are not even allowed to walk through this stupid estate!

You heard/read me correctly. This is a location where they police the place/video and scan the place and excise any unwelcome organisms from the very air of the estate – you have to live there or be some sort of work person going about your allowed duties to enter the place. Yes, this is Britain in the tewnty first century and people still think that they can get away with that!!!! I will be joining the ramblers when I come back and we will do some neat stuff regarding this.....

This route deflection alone caused us an extra almost 2 miles!

We walked through what looked like a set of ante-tank emplacements which I had presumed meant that the road was about to be excavated, and entered the estate. Within a few minutes a guard in a van arrived and asked us if we were residents. As we are plainly not residents we had to leave asap. At least the guy who told us to go was polite, didn’t ask us to retrace our steps and gave us advice on how to circumnavigate the place. Despite his role, he was quite hosipitable!

In contrast, last night our two daughters provided us with wine and food which were wonderful, their company, which was even better and as a bonus we spent time with our very bright and beautiful little grand-daughters – we will have to wait until after the walk to enjoy the company of our beloved grandson and my darling son Ewan again.... But hospitality was alive and flourishing hugely last night!

Other hospitality wiggles today include the fact that we waited for quite a while to get into the church hall – which was only difficult because we didn’t know what was happening and it was cold – but we also had a lovely priest who drove us up to the centre of town so we could do our shopping for food,and then the hall was cold (VERY cold)and sadly the priest couldn't do anything about it – we have to sleep here all night but, of course, we are weird walking pilgrim people who can cope with this??!

Despite the frustrations, we are very grateful to be able to sleep here.


Any way, end of rant reached and so let’s say toodle looo!

Oh, by the way, we walked very close to Dominique’s 6th form school and today we skirted past both Kirsty and Rosalind’s 6th form colleges...

Whow, too cold to write any more – even for me!!!

Check out the revised itinerary now!!