Tuesday, 20 April 2004

Personal

Why walk?

I've been surprised recently how some good friends still don't know about my walking. So let me state it outright:

I am walking the entire length of the mainland UK coastline.

This always raises questions. The first is usually Why?. I've always considered "because it's there" to be a cop-out answer of the highest order.

I still don't know exactly why I'm walking. Maybe I want to see where the coast leads. Maybe I'm curious as to its length. Maybe I want to check I really live on an island. It seemed like a good idea when I started and I've no reason to stop yet.

Then today reading an article about Norris McWhirter's passing I realised it's not so strange. Norris loved "visiting the 1,049 offshore British islands". Others climb a list of mountains drawn up a hundred years ago. As for me, I walk by the sea. And I love it.

Posted by pab at 22:35

Greenbelt

The trouble with 1 Corinthians 13

[Minute-taking at the AGM]

On the way home after a Greenbelt Management Group meeting I usually get frustrated. It's an hour's train journey - an ideal time to edit the minutes I took during the meeting - but my fingers refuse to work and my brain runs wild.

Today's journey was different. I bumped into John Peck and Charity Quin. John was one of the founders of Greenbelt and having missed Saturday's AGM was keen to catch up.

Chatting with John is always a pleasure, doubly so when he's keeping me from the non-minuting guilty feeling! "The trouble with 1 Corinthians 13," he pointed out after Charity mock-chided herself about love being slow to anger, "is it's so readily quotable."

(The photo above was taken by Pip on Saturday at the AGM.)

Posted by pab at 00:36