Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
Well here I am back in Devon back from my pilgrimage.
I had a wonderful experience 48 days of walking then a day of travel yesterday which included stopping off at Royston Cave which is a node point on the Mary and Michael line and if you remember I was following the Mary and Michael energy currents across England and I wasn't able to go to Royston at the time because it was closed when I walked through it but I was able to turn up yesterday and experience this extraordinary cave which is made out of chalk,
It's man-made,
It's underground under a street in the middle of a place called Royston and carved on the wall are different images most of them are Christian images probably dating to 12-1300s but there are a couple of pre-christian images there which nobody can date it very well it might be that they were drawn at the same time or carved out of the chalk at the same time but there's one which looks like some sort of fertility symbol and then a horse which apparently looks like the Uthington horse.
So exploring the cave was amazing it's a small small chamber sort of I guess you could say it's shaped a bit like a bottle so it sort of tapers as it goes up to the street level and it was just watching and looking at those images on the wall and knowing this was a node point seemed to finish off the pilgrim brilliantly and then today bang back with a big bump into the world of being human.
It started with me opening all my post and realising that I've made a mistake with my tax payment which I rushed to pay before I left and the result is I've been charged a penalty bang!
The dog was a bit discombobulated I think seeing us all and last night was a little bit restless so I had to sit up with him for quite a bit of the night because he was he was whining and didn't want to settle and I didn't really have much sleep bang!
This morning I went up onto the moors to enjoy the scenery that I've so missed and there was a heavy mist down I couldn't see a thing not a thing bang!
And finally I help empty a dog bin a waste bin mess and since I've been away nobody's nobody's emptied it so that's what I'm doing now just after speaking to you is I'm going to go and start to empty that bin which is not my favourite job but it's something that needs to be done and it just feels as though this walk that lasted nearly seven weeks is like a distant memory I can't believe it and suddenly I'm back with the human stuff the the thinking the practical stuff the cooking the cleaning cleaning out the van the washing I'm going to be making supper tonight I need to start thinking about what I'm going to eat or what we're going to eat in the week and it's like there's a real reluctance in a part of me to wake that part of my spirit up or there's a spirit which has come alive during the pilgrimage that doesn't want to relinquish and yet I don't know can I hold that spirit of the pilgrimage and live a life of being human that really is the question I'm asking myself and I don't know the answer I genuinely don't know the answer and I just want to be straight with you guys because it's actually quite simple walking a pilgrimage you just walk that's all you have to do you walk but actually engaging with life with people with jobs with chores with responsibilities that is where the mind gets revved up and that's where I am today kind of a foot in the pilgrimage mind and a foot in the human mind let's see how it progresses eh I don't have any answers I just have a lot of questions can I can I live as a pilgrim in an everyday human existence that's the question I want to answer
