More than Writing … Away from the Desk by Clare Weiner aka Mari Howard
What do you do, away from the desk? Apart from ‘procrastination - with another coffee …’, there’s an enormous liberation in walking … We live in a very rural county Yes, we live in big city, an overcrowded city with more child poverty than the thousands of tourists who visit every year to cram our streets and shops and ancient buildings from Christmas to summer holidays inclusive would believe. But, this is primarily a rural county, with hundreds of acres of farmland, estates owned by private landowners, by the University, and by its various Colleges. A few years ago, some of us from church formed a small, unambitious walking group: pilgrimage had been featuring on the church calendar, and we decided that although we’d not do a big Pilgrimage such as Compostela or Jerusalem, or even Canterbury, we could manage an escape to our own countryside. Where we wander between two or three country churches, and end up with refreshments in a village pub. T...