How times change ... He died in 1973, so the quote is at least 35 years old. Postwar, at the start of the era of women returning to work, might they have found they had neither the time nor the energy for the luxury of an hour's vigorous walking? But hey-ho! Scrubbing kitchen floors was a good enough substitute ...
I'm a 46 year old husband, father of two and vicar in the parish of Oadby, Leicestershire. Between Easter and Pentecost in 2009 I walked home from Paris to Oadby - a peculiar kind of pilgrimage.
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Walking Home 2009
The route was 540 miles, from Paris where Jennifer and I honeymooned in 1986, to Oadby where I live and work today. It's a bit wiggly because friends, family, significant places and affordable accomodation don't fall on a straight line. Click here for a larger view.
How times change ...
ReplyDeleteHe died in 1973, so the quote is at least 35 years old. Postwar, at the start of the era of women returning to work, might they have found they had neither the time nor the energy for the luxury of an hour's vigorous walking?
But hey-ho! Scrubbing kitchen floors was a good enough substitute ...