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<\/a><\/p>\nWe began at the statue of Robert Burns, which is opposite the Miner’s Memorial. There’s plenty of Burns memorabilia in these parts as he lived or stayed around here a lot and wrote plenty of his poems with local places in mind, like Afton Water, the local river.
\nWe took the footpath through the Knochshinnoch Lagoons Wildlife Reserve which has been established on an area of old coal spoil heaps near the town. There was a wide range of wild flowers including early spotted orchids and many insects and birds.<\/p>\n
The rest of the walk was on small back roads to Cumnock. The best bit was finding wild strawberries by the roadside and a man who’d made a notice saying ‘2 mph Elderly People at Play’. We stopped for some refreshments at the Ayrshire factory outlet as it was a very hot day and our ice cream levels needed replenishing.<\/p>\n Cumnock remembers Keir Hardie, the first elected Labour MP with a bust outside the Town Hall and a plaque on his house. The day continued very hot right to Auchinleck station and the train back to Sanquhar was a welcome respite.<\/p>\n From Psalm 19 The very warm sun has shone on us all day, God grant us a quiet night and a peaceful end. <\/b><\/p>\n JAL 27.06.2019 Our second opportunity to use the local Scotrail service to get to the start of the walk occurred today, the day after the first, as we continue in the A76 corridor. Therefore, Day 74 of the End to End began at New Cumnock. We arrived on the 09.20 train from Sanquhar. New Cumnock, where we … Continue reading “From the New to the Old”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThe sun rises at one end of the heavens
\nand makes its circuit to the other;
\nnothing is deprived of its warmth.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nMaking its way from East to West.
\nOur drinking water got rather warm, but we had plenty.
\nWe are thankful.<\/p>\n
\nDay 74 of the End to End, New Cumnock to Auchinleck via Cumnock, and return by train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"