Home to Bishopbriggs.

Day 10: Drymen to Bishopbriggs.
Distance: 18.7 miles (175.1 total).
Duration: 7 hrs 1 mins.
Lowest Temp: 2ºc.
Weather: Take it from someone who learned the hard way – you really don’t need thermals on a day like today.
Highest Alt: 574 ft
Tonight I’m at home in Bishopbriggs.
I was born in the Midlands. Brought up in the South East. Have lived most of my adult life in various parts of London. But Bishopbriggs is a home to me.
My Mum grew up here. My parents were married here. I was baptised here. Grandparents lived here and Grandparents are buried here. More of my family live here than any other place in the country. So, although I’ve never spent more than two weeks here at any one time, this is a home to me.
Arriving here with my Elderly Uncle makes me think of all the different places I belong, or have belonged. It’s difficult for me to find a single place I can point to and say, ‘This is where I’ve come from’. Part of pilgrimage involves, I suppose, a sense of not truly belonging to any one place. All of which contributes to Susie’s quandary about where to put my memorial bench, many many years from now! As long as some of my ashes end up at White Hart Lane, I’ll be happy – except, they’re going to be moving that soon too.
At the end of this first leg I’d like to thank you all for walking this far with me, and a special thank you to all those of you who have posted comments. Whether they were words of encouragement or reflection, bits of local research or verses of poetry, humorous observations, even the Spurs-baiting – I’ve valued them all, and been helped along by your companionship.
Cairns are made when lots of different people bring stones from different places, and lay them together in one spot. All your comments are part of this pilgrim’s cairn and part of this pilgrimage.
And if you haven’t posted yet, please join us – my Mum will be happy to explain how you go about it. When this walk is over, I'll have the time to respond to your comments properly.
So this weekend – go walking, and then maybe tell me where you’ve been. I’d love to hear from you.

Tomorrow I rest. I'm tired.