{"id":1051,"date":"2020-05-27T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:11:23","slug":"another-canal-and-500-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/05\/27\/another-canal-and-500-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Another canal and 500 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 51 of the End to End in 2019 saw me clock over 500 miles altogether. There was still some way to go but it was a celebration so we had a doughnut. After wandering through Preston I got onto the Lancaster Canal. I&#8217;d be walking on it for several days and it was the last canal this side of the England\/Scotland border.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8151-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8151-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8151-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8151-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8151-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in 2020, today was the longest walk for me since lock down started. It was a 10 mile walk in the Longdendale Valley on a beautiful, and not very busy day. Most days I walk nearer 2 miles but we&#8217;ve been trying to stretch our legs a bit more recently, locally of course. There&#8217;s a great network of paths in this valley so we are fortunate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8190-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8190-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8190-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8190-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8190-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s butterfly counting app is really good. Last year I was noting them all down one at a time, now I can do it with one click on my phone (and yes I do know that Butterfly Conservation has one but it takes up more space and longer to record). Today I was able to identify 26 butterflies and 1 moth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-430\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8168-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8168-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8168-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8168-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_8168-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once back home it was time to dream. The Bedford Enthusiasts club drew my attention to a 1971 Bedford Ice Cream van for sale on e-bay at \u00a32,000 of so. What a wonderful addition it would make to the Mobile Chapel of St Scholastica. It could be the Refectory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/1971-Bedford-CF-Classic-Ice-Cream-Van-Scott-of-Bellshill-Food-Truck\/283891025347?hash=item42193945c3:g:0WEAAOSwdCVey9sA\">https:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/1971-Bedford-CF-Classic-Ice-Cream-Van-Scott-of-Bellshill-Food-Truck\/283891025347?hash=item42193945c3:g:0WEAAOSwdCVey9sA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s only a dream, but walking the End to End was one dream that came true (and I ate a lot of ice cream).<\/p>\n<p>From the remembered bible<br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s a lot of dreaming goes on. Jacob dreamt of a staircase at a time when there weren&#8217;t all that many. The safety of the baby Jesus when Herod set out to have him killed relied on dreaming. Then at the end of the Bible, John has a massive dream that goes on and on and includes quite a lot of weird stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God of dreams and visions,<br \/>\nmay we hold onto the good possibilities that our dreams suggest:<br \/>\na place of safety for the refugee,<br \/>\na time when crying and pain will be done.<br \/>\nFire us up again, that we may move forward<br \/>\ntowards safety, peace and justice.<\/p>\n<p>JAL: 27.05.2020 in Longdendale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 51 of the End to End in 2019 saw me clock over 500 miles altogether. There was still some way to go but it was a celebration so we had a doughnut. After wandering through Preston I got onto the Lancaster Canal. I&#8217;d be walking on it for several days and it was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/05\/27\/another-canal-and-500-miles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another canal and 500 miles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}