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<\/p>\nThe fourth day of LEJOG was memorable not just for walking. It was the day the Evacuee came back, eventually. It did take a bit longer than expected due to high tide at Dawlish but as Hannah said at the time ‘They can’t have random grandparents wandering round the National Rail Network unsupervised’.<\/p>\n
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He’s now 88 and in self isolation. Some 80 years ago Doug was amongst the generation of children who were moved from home and family to safety at the beginning of WW2. He had two moves. One short lived and not so sucessful. They all went back to London. Then a longer one in 1940 to Troon, near Camborne, in Cornwall which was much better.<\/p>\n
It was the beginning of a life times love for that county and a long term relationship with the family that took in him (on the right of photo), his younger brother (now in the USA), and eventually also his mum and baby sister (born in 1940 but died last year).<\/p>\n
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Before COVID 19 there were quite a few from his generation still telling their stories. But as they are more vulnerable to the virus we don’t know how many we will have by the end of it all. Dad used to tell his evacuee stories at school where I was chaplain. They were never exactly the same. He told me that some of the questions made him chuckle: What kind of car did you have? He didn’t have a car until he was an adult and then it was an old re-purposed London taxi which we called ‘Jimmy’.\u00a0 For our summer holiday, my grandma (in the photo above) would sit in the front compartment and mum, my brother and I would sit on the back seat. We’d set off for Cornwall at about 3am and we’d ring Chrissie up from Bodmin so she could put the pasties on to cook. It was Chrissie’s son David who welcome Dad last year.<\/p>\n
Remembering the Bible is a strategy that often links with personal memories. So today I remember other celebrations of Palm Sunday\u00a0 (or sometimes Palm Friday or Palm Monday which I always considered to be better than Palm Nothing At All). It was the day we used the processional cross and paraded to Chapel with at least one volunteer dressed as a donkey (one year I had 6 volunteers: some came as chickens, rabbits and even a carrot!). However, you remember it, today is the day to shout out loud – Hosanna, Bless the One who comes in God’s Name!<\/p>\n
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From the remembered Gospel Near-to-us God, in this distancing time, JAL: in a room in Longdendale, Derbyshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fourth day of LEJOG was memorable not just for walking. It was the day the Evacuee came back, eventually. It did take a bit longer than expected due to high tide at Dawlish but as Hannah said at the time ‘They can’t have random grandparents wandering round the National Rail Network unsupervised’. He’s now … Continue reading “The Evacuee again!”<\/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-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey came near to Jerusalem….<\/em><\/p>\n
\non these isolation days,
\nwe bless you for coming near to us.
\nBe near all those who are alone:
\nthe anxious,
\nthe vulnerable,
\nthe dying,
\nthose who mourn.
\nAs we approach the Week of Passion,
\nmay our passions still hold to you and your Way,
\nwhether or not we can come physically near each other.<\/p>\n