In “The Lord of the Rings” Galadriel gives the Fellowship a gift of elven “waybread” or “lembas” which is a kind of biscuit which acts as the ultimate travel ration. There was some discussion on the Internet about how you actually make it, and this was the recipe Chat GPT came up with. Ingredients: 315 […]
I made it back to Lochgoilhead all on my own (bus, two trains and plane) apart from R meeting me in Glasgow. I was nervous about all the steps but it was actually fine. Now I am home, R and I have resumed our daily walks, albeit a bit slowly and carefully. I am hitting […]
It has been a rewarding and quite enjoyable week. It has been nice to be somewhere with a bit more life to it than Lochgoilhead and also to be able to go out in lovely weather without battling with rough steep paths, rain and midges. Really nice to wander to the excellent farm shop and […]
Today J and I walked down the Holy Mile between the Slipper Chapel where the RC shrine now is, and the Anglican shrine in the village. This is by far the longest walk I’ve done since the operation. Walsingham is much better than Lochgoilhead for my foot because it is nearly all on the flat […]
Walsingham has two shrines – one Anglican and one Roman Catholic. A strange feature of the history of this country (blame Henry VIII) is that all the older churches tend to be CofE and the RC churches are modern. This is because the older churches were originally RC before they were “taken over”. I’ll have […]
J’s Mum’s funeral today. It was at St Peter’s church which is a lovely little country church, and it was also a very beautiful day. J and I picked a huge bunch of flowers from his Mum’s garden (the place she had loved the most) and we put them on the grave where she was […]
J’s mother did not have an automatic washing machine – she had a twin tub! I’ve honestly not seen one in nearly forty years – my Gran had one when I was a child, and I briefly (once I think!) used one in a rented house I stayed in. J and I had to figure […]
J’s Mum died rather suddenly and this, followed by his solitary occupancy of the property left it rather sad and cluttered looking. My remit for the week (as well as attending the funeral) is to pack a load of stuff away and get the house looking nice ready for sale. It is such a very […]
These are retrospective posts because when I arrived in Walsingham the utility I use to move my photos from my phone to our network went nuts and tried to back over 2000 photos up over a non-stellar Internet link so I had to turn it off. Arrived in Little Walsingham this afternoon after an interesting […]
I’m off to Little Walsingham in Norfolk tomorrow with my friend J. His Mum died in April and we are going down for her memorial service and also to “House Doctor” the house there so it can be sold. It is a lovely house though in need of a bit of modernising. I also really […]
