Songline On Sea

In response to:Day 107 August 11 - Folkestone to Dover

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:19:07 +0200

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In response to:The Day After - August 30

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:14:20 +0200

Welcome back, Tom, and CONGRATULATIONS!!!
What are you planning for your 70th birthday?
It had better be good! ;)
Looking forward to the show on Oct 1st & to see you soon,
Naphia & Jade

In response to:The Day After - August 30

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:15:59 +0200

Hi, Tom WELL DONE you did it - a truly magnificent achievement. We are in Cornwall and are thinking of you. Good luck with the knee, love Kate and Simon

In response to:The Day After - August 30

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:34:40 +0200

Congratulations on a magnificent achievement Tom. I look forward to the book, the movie and then the movie sequel.

In response to:The Day After - August 30

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:35:51 +0200

Dearest Tom,
Thank you for the wonderful gift of being able to walk with you in spirit. I was not able to join you, as I would have loved to, but I got so much out of following your progress, half a world away. Especially wonderful for me was to recall those places we have walked together. Well Done! What an amazing experience it must have been.
Enjoy your well earned rest.
In amongst your 5 months of mail there should be an invitation to my wedding which I am fairly certain you will not be attending! It's in a few weeks, and I am really looking forward to it. I have written a song for Emma's small school extra lesson choir to sing during the ceremony, another to add to the songs I was encouraged to write by you.
I am feeling a tad emotional, thinking about the place you have in my life, and I thank you for it.
your friend in music, walking and appreciation of the small places and landscape of the British Isles, in particular the Norman arch!,
Paul

In response to:Day 116 - August 20 Conyer Quay to Sittingbourne

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:33:50 +0200

Hi Tom
Not sure what happened, my comment was attached to the wrong part of your walk. Must be novice fingers.
Sailing round Sheppey is my yearly excursion! So I know that coastline well.
Hope to see you Saturday.Find some wings for your feet now you are nearly finished.
Rona

In response to:Day 98 - August 2 Worthing to Brighton

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:53:19 +0200

Hi Tom
Keep on plodding. Very strange area that coastline,know it well. Looking forward to doing part of the welcome home walk.

In response to:Day 115 - August 19 Faversham to Conyer Quay

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:33:39 +0200

Well it's Friday 1.21am and no blog for Thursday 20th! Hope Tom has not come amiss at Conyer Creek, muddy old place. The coast there about is full of old brick fields, tho' the industry is long gone. In Victorian times, barges piled high with the rubbish of London would come up the Thames and discharge their load onto the beaches and fill up with bricks for the new building growth of London. The brick workers would set fire to the rubbish and use the ash in the brick making production, which is why it is possible to find many an old bottle, sometimes very distorted by fire, poking up out of the Swale mud.
Hope all is well Tom! Jan and Tony

In response to:Day 112 - August 16 Margate to Herne Bay

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:03:24 +0200

Wishing God's and the angel's blessings to a godly angelic man!

As you know, we (Allan Sweeney and Yoko) tried to help your knees around midnight(?) after a hard day's work preparing the garden for landscaping.

Grecian Reiki is like singing - you can sing (do Grecian Reiki), then talk to someone, then sing more (or heal more) etc.

Pleased to hear you think something helped, and that you could 'overtake' people on your walk to Herne Bay the next day!

Let us know how it goes. After your epic "Walk Around Britain's Coast" Yoko and I would like to offer you free therapy for your knees, to see if Grecian Reiki can get them back to where they were before you started... You never know your luck, you angelic man...

Blessings and LOve

Allan Sweeney

In response to:Day 111 - August 15 Ramsgate to Margate

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:20:42 +0200

Dear Kate and Simon,
hey! This is fun.
We're all for this meeting up lark, and The Ashdown Forest and you two, and the added bonus of friend sharing, would be a treat indeed!
Tom was terrific for Tony, who was just (that afternoon) released from hospital, what a great chap he is. I do thank you for our introduction.
See you soon! Many best wishes, Jan

In response to:Day 111 - August 15 Ramsgate to Margate

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:24:02 +0200

Dear Jan and Tony, Thank you for looking after Tom after our departure, we now share a friend! You must come and visit Forest Row and then we can all meet up again on Ashdown Forest too (as well as Sandwich). Kate and Simon

In response to:Day 111 - August 15 Ramsgate to Margate

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:37:21 +0200

And, Tom, you were very good for Sandwich, especially in the High Street vicinity. Do come back and visit us again!
Hope the knees continue to improve with the Pfizer "wonder pills", as you wrote in yesterdays Blog. Here in Sandwich we do not think the drug known as the "Pfizer Wonder Pills" are an aid to walking, but to aid more amatory pursuits. So keep taking the white tablets, not the little blue ones!! Jan and Tony

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In response to:Day 103 - August 7 Hastings to Rye

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:23:19 +0200

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In response to:Day 98 - August 2 Worthing to Brighton

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:51:40 +0200

Doing well, Tom - almost there!!

When do you finish?

In response to:Day 95 - July 30 Chichester to Bognor Regis

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:41:04 +0200

"West Wittering back on the coast. This is a place I shall definitely return to. The hard sand stretches for miles and is great for horse riding."

2010-2012 Clockwise on horseback? Could be good.

Nearly home now, keep going well.
Tim

In response to:Day 91 - July 26 Lymington to Southampton

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:03:31 +0200

Having birthday Tom! Hope it's followed by a great year & that the rest of the walk goes better each day ... Love from Naphia & Jade

In response to:Day 73 - July 8 Stoke Beach to Bigbury-on-Sea

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:16:48 +0200

The ghastly caravan site is at Challaborough! Bigbury itself is free of such eyesores. Bigbury and Challaborough are not connected by road, only by footpath.

Scheherazada

In response to:Day 73 - July 8 Stoke Beach to Bigbury-on-Sea

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:57:14 +0200

cherubini sends his best on radio3 tonight = worth staying up for with a full moon and a dog regards to jane

In response to:Day 70 - July 5 Tregonhawke to Plymouth

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:58:44 +0200

Back in London reading the blogs for the last week has reminded me what a good week of walking we had. It was a slog up and down those interminable hills, but well worth it and I have the blisters to prove it! And returning the compliment, I must say what an excellent walking and camping companion Tom is - never a cross word between us. I was sad that the walk had come to an end for me as I climbed on board the little ferry. And after leaving Tom in glorious sunshine on the beach in Cornwall, it promptly rained when I reached Devon, as if to emphasize that the holiday was over.

In response to:Day 66 - July 1 Portloe to Mavagissy

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:17:45 +0200

Tom

You may be able to get reading glasses off the shelf from Boots. Not ideal but usable - they have a selection of strengths (same for both eyes of course), and used to cost about a tenner. I still have mine, bought in Inverness.

Don't get washed away in the forecast floods.

Tim

In response to:Day 65 - June 30 Falmouth to Portloe

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:20:14 +0200

Cornwall is a beautiful part of the world...hope you don't mind but I've blogged about your blog, inviting my friends to pop over and visit you! :)

In response to:Day 63 - June 27 Covernack to Mawnan

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:38 +0200

Good to hear about St Anthony in Meneage again - what a beautiful spot.

Trust Tom Allan will get you into the sea again this year.

Tim

In response to:Day 60 - June 24 Penzance to Porthleven

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:46:12 +0200

Ah, the Admiral Benbow Pub in Penzance. Max and I had a memorable evening meal there about two days into our Mousehole honeymoon at the beginning of March 1968 - memorable in that I spent the rest of the night throwing up after some dodgy seafood soup! I wonder how many chefs have been through their kitchens since then. I remember my Polish mother-in-law getting very excited when we told her I had been sick during our honeymoon!
We are looking forward to joining you in Devon quite soon. May the wind be ever at your back.
Love Liz

In response to:Day 31 - May 15 Weston-super-Mare to Bridgwater

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:59:33 +0200

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In response to:Day 47 - June 11 Boscastle to Port Isaac

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:44:58 +0200

So glad and heartened Tom that you are receiving all this much needed help with the luggage-load! Full of admiration for your steady progress around the coast-line come what ascents and descents present themselves to your intrepid shoes, stick and self!
Monica

In response to:Day 38 - June 2 Ilfracombe to Woolacombe

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:47:57 +0200

Tom, there is no finer experience on this earth than hurling yourself down the dunes of Woolacombe bay... drop the rucksack and brolly at the top, take a big run up and fling yourself skyward and take some air. No worry on the knees for your landing will be soft and golden. couple of forward rolls won't go amiss before you reach da beach. Now where's brolly?

In response to:Day 38 - June 2 Ilfracombe to Woolacombe

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:02:53 +0200

Hi Tom - I'm glad you saw Baby Louis and are back in your stride in glorious countyside.

As promised, re Philip Glass, here is what Wikipedia says about Akhnaten's figure, which is apparently always depicted in Egyptian art oddly as with saging breasts, a long head and big hips... : "However, Dominic Montserrat in Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt argues that "there is now a broad consensus among Egyptologists that the exaggerated forms of Akhenaten's physical portrayal...are not to be read literally"[39] ... the body-shape relates to some form of religious symbolism. Because the god Aten was referred to as "the mother and father of all humankind" it has been suggested that Akhenaten was made to look androgynous in artwork as a symbol of the androgyny of the god. This required "a symbolic gathering of all the attributes of the creator god into the physical body of the king himself", which will "display on earth the Aten's multiple life-giving functions".[39] Akhenaten did refer to himself as "The Unique One of Re," and he may have used his control of artistic expression to distance himself from the common people, though such a radical departure from the idealised traditional representation of the image of the Pharaoh would be truly extraordinary."

He was the consort of Nefertite, the great beauty, and had several children - Tutenkhamen among them, so was a functional man! His successors reversed his religious attempt to create a monotheistic cult of the sun...

In response to:Day 37 - May21 Castle Martin to Ilfracombe

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:36:51 +0200

I spent some very happy summer holidays in this area as a child - reading your blogs is bringing it all back! Hope you had a marvellous time in Brittany xXx

In response to:Day 33 - May 17 Watchet to Minehead

Mon, 18 May 2009 09:02:59 +0200

Hi Tom
As you are walking and writing I am practising my english reading your blog . I have just found out today that you were in Minehead and I suddenly remmember my first job there as a chalet maid for 9 weeks at Butlin's . A very strange place, hard work , poor pay but lots of friends and fun! I met my best english friend who I am going to visit in June on a shot trip to London. I bacame her dauhter's godmother . So even though Butlin's was not my cup of tea I owe them "friendship" .

Wales was also my first exhange as an au pair girl in a family in LLandrindol wales " or something like that " ....
a small village in Wales . That was a long time ago ....

Keep enjoying your walking and meeting so many nice people who seem to cook quite well!

Take care

Catheine