{"id":964,"date":"2020-04-28T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:18:53","slug":"the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/04\/28\/the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 27 of the end to End I could see Bristol from the bridge over the M5. I had set myself a month for this goal but I&#8217;d done it in 27 days so I was really pleased with that. There were few cities on my LEJOG route. As I&#8217;ve said before, there&#8217;s no set route so you take in as few or as many as you like. I avoided Birmingham and Manchester for example. But I had included Truro back in week 1 and so Bristol was my second city, although I went round on the Severn Way rather than through the middle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-247\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61121726350666-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61121726350666-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61121726350666-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61121726350666-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61121726350666-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of mostly open country and rural life it was quite a change to see terraces of houses, frequent buses and busy roads. I expect Bristol looks quite different today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_6166-601352429-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_6166-601352429-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_6166-601352429-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_6166-601352429-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_6166-601352429-1200x2134.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was also the day I got onto the Severn Way, one of the long distance walking routes I used for LEJOG. Although Hannah didn&#8217;t always have good reports of it in 2012, it was quite well signed and mostly flat, all of which commended it to me. I&#8217;d be following it for at least 13 days.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of Day 27, I was at Severn Beach, a small place that had welcomed day trippers from the city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Shirley&#8217;s Cafe, opened in the 1940s, was still there. I hope it is after 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61912118976142-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61912118976142-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61912118976142-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61912118976142-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dsc_61912118976142-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is also remembered as Worker&#8217;s Memorial Day. It started in Canada in 1985 and has spread, never more so than this year. There are some resources here if you&#8217;d like to use them:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/worship\/WMD_prayers.pdf\">https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/worship\/WMD_prayers.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the remembered gospel<br \/>\n<em>Jesus looked at the city and wept: &#8216;Oh how I wish I could gather you up, like a hen gathers up her chicks&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gathering God, bring us together<br \/>\nas we remember those who have died working in a time of Pandemic.<br \/>\nAs the virus spreads around us, may love spread amongst us.<br \/>\nMay we be ready to care and to serve, remembering all who do.<br \/>\nBe in our dying and our living; may we all share your new life.<\/p>\n<p>JAL: 28.04.2020 WMD in Longdendale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 27 of the end to End I could see Bristol from the bridge over the M5. I had set myself a month for this goal but I&#8217;d done it in 27 days so I was really pleased with that. There were few cities on my LEJOG route. As I&#8217;ve said before, there&#8217;s no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2020\/04\/28\/the-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The City&#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-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}