Charm

Running late! 

We had a delicious and relaxed supper in Arundel's on Saturday night - as we wend our way home it was still light and everyone was reluctant to move. This really is a pub with a view!

A lovely day weatherwise and we pottered and gardened and then I decided I had to go to the pattern day and mass at St Jame' Well, s Ardfield, a good hour and quarter away. (it being Garland/Reek/Bilberry/Garlic Sunday - yes the one where in another part of the country thousand were climbing Croagh Patrick). I was so glad I did for what a welcome I got and I heard some marvellous stories too. My main pic is the custodian and his grandson who kindly posed, and what a great job he had done for the site was looking immaculate amongst the hydrangeas. I spoke to a man who had set out from here to Santiago del Compostela - he had walked from here to Cork airport (55km), caught the plane and then continued walking from somewhere in France to Santiago and then on to Finisterre doing the full pilgrimage.  He had been several times and it was he who brought back the statue of the saint in 2007, now enshrined.  All pilgrims who do the Camino receive a scallop shell, the emblem of St James, and today he placed his on the altar for a continued blessing. 
The Mass was short and based on the parable of the loaves and fishes, the midges behaved, the crowd was jolly and all ages, and then a boot of a car was opened to reveal  flasks of tea and plates of biscuits.
And I've been invited to another mass on 15th August on a cliff top.