{"id":1060,"date":"2020-05-31T10:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:08:29","slug":"many-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/05\/31\/many-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Many threads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 55 of the End to End in 2019 continued along the Lancaster Canal. This canal provided the longest canal side route of the whole LEJOG. As I look back at it this was a day with many threads, but actually they all are. I am continually surprised by how things I wrote about a year ago on a long walk pop up one year on in lock down. I’m grateful to those people who read it for the comments they send.<\/p>\n

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There’s an odd thread in a field alongside the canal just as we turn towards the coast. On the map there’s mention of St Patrick’s Well. So I looked over the hedge. There were cattle and hedges. Then a moving slinky shape emerged from the hedge and lopped across the field: it was a fox. Like many encounters of LEJOG it was very brief and I’ve none of the photographic evidence you get on Springwatch, but it was a lovely moment.<\/p>\n

St Patrick’s well remained covered in brambles, if it is still there at all. Tradition has it that Patrick was British and originated around Banna on Hadrian’s Wall. Perhaps his father was a Christian in the Roman Army. I like this story and use it in my still unfinished novel which threads its way through the origins of early Northern British Christianity. Here my path crossed with Patrick’s again.<\/p>\n

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The day’s walk finished early at Carnforth Station, made over to the film set, lasting memory to a short clip, but warm and dry on a grey day. Trains till stop there, however briefly.<\/p>\n

A version of ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate<\/em>‘ from my as yet uncompleted novel ‘Surplus to Requirements<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

The One I follow is always with me:<\/em><\/p>\n

In front, behind, underneath and above me. <\/em><\/p>\n

The One I follow is in me, <\/em><\/p>\n

At my left and right side, lying down or sitting up. <\/em><\/p>\n

When I’m standing here, <\/em><\/p>\n

The One I follow is inside everyone else who is thinking of me, <\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone who is talking about me. <\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the one I follow: the Always-Everywhere-One\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

JAL: 31.05.2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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