Tag: villages

• Pilgrims’ Way, Hollingbourne to Charing

  

  Stage 13 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I have pause for thought and get a bit contemplativey

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  May 23, 2023

  Kent, Pilgrims way, Walk

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• Balcombe circular

  

  In which I climb the hill of contentment, then descend into the valley of despair

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  March 20, 2023

  Sussex, Walk

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• Henley, Hambleden and the Great Wood

  

  In which we go in search of mistletoe and sponge cake and uncover the insidious creep of fake cows

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  December 31, 2022

  chilterns, Oxfordshire, Thames, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Halling to Aylesford

  

  Stage 11 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I walk an unloved section along the Medway, and consider opening a tea room for sexually immoral murderous idolators, that lets dogs in.

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  November 3, 2022

  Kent, Pilgrims way, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Otford to Wrotham

  

  Stage 9 of the Pilgrims Way in which I have ringing in my ears which for once isn’t tinnitus and consider foraging and living in a ditch

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  October 22, 2022

  Kent, Pilgrims way, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Oxted to Otford

  

  Stage 8 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which we miss a golden opportunity to steal Liz Truss’s acorns and I make a series of inappropriate jokes

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  October 16, 2022

  Kent, Pilgrims way, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Box Hill to Merstham

  

  Stage 6 of the Pilgrims Way in which I witness a murder* *of crows

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  October 13, 2022

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Gomshall to Box Hill

  

  Stage 5b of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I immerse myself in beech woods and after some quiet contemplation decide to wish thunderbolts on a church spire.

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  October 7, 2022

  Pilgrims way, Surrey, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way: Guildford to Gomshall

  

  Stage 5a of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I fail to find a dragon’s cave and fail to find hospitality in a quintessentially expensive Surrey village

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  October 1, 2022

  Pilgrims way, Surrey, Walk

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• Pilgrims’ Way, Merstham to Oxted

  

  Section 7 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which we walk the ridge of the downs accompanied by the constant rumble of the London Orbital and I am delighted to find a stinkpipe

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  September 22, 2022

  Pilgrims way, Surrey, Walk

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