Despite
Chaucer’s preference for the sweet spring showers of April, Northern Synod
members usually choose the searing heat of July for their pilgrimages.
This year
we’re off again – walking from the Selkirk Peace Garden to the Crookham Peace
Garden, marking the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, over
the five day period July 8th to 12th. Then on Saturday
we shall join with a far greater pilgrim band who are
sharing in the one-day ecumenical pilgrimage to Holy Island, commemorating the
(temporary) return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East.
Once again
our synod pilgrim leader will be Henry Gowland, maps and compass at the ready,
while his wife Linda and other volunteers have organised a lot of the
practical arrangements for us. We are staying each night at the Heriot Watt
school of residence in Galashiels, and relying on minibus transport to and fro
for each day’s walk. But what may await us on the journey (though at least the weather
forecast is encouraging) we are yet to find out.
Check this
blog each evening: we hope will have news to share with you!
