{"id":2462,"date":"2011-05-03T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2011-07-22T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T13:12:27","slug":"walk2012-and-the-new-badgemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"Walk2012 and the new badgemaker!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our bank holiday weekend here was fantastic<\/em>. It began with an exciting postal delivery – on Thursday – of a proper badgemaker<\/em>. Mark has written beautifully about this here<\/a>, although his post kindly skips over the sheer levels of BADGEMANIA which took over here on Thursday evening, as I inserted sheets of every known kind of paper from all corners of the house into my device and produced a terrifying quantity of badges.<\/p>\n

BADGES!<\/p>\n

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As Mark states on his blog<\/a>, YOU CAN WIN some of these fine handmade badges by helping us to promote the Crowdfunder page<\/a> which we set up a while back to help raise dollarine$ for the costs associated with producing a guidebook to accompany the Walk2012 walk<\/a>. The first 10 people to promote the Crowdfunder page on their blog or on Facebook will win 3 handmade badges, including the lovely Walk2012 designs by Mark. Designs will vary and may involve bits of map, views, as well as the logo… Claim your prize by emailing the link to mark.stanley@coraledge.co.uk. The first 10 people to email Mark will get the goodies! <\/p>\n

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Luckily Mark was eventually able to prise me away from the badgemaker on Friday so that we were able to go on a 45 mile stretch of the Walk2012 proposed route over the weekend. Consisting of roughly a quarter of the whole 180-mile Walk2012 route, our trek went across St. Swithun’s Way<\/a> and a short stretch of the North Downs Way, through Hampshire and Surrey. Mark wanted to decide whether this route or a proposed alternative should feature in the final Walk2012 route, so we went to investigate together.<\/p>\n

We began at Winchester where St.Swithun was born in around 800. St. Swithun was most<\/em> famous for his post-humous miracle working and – according to Wikipedia<\/a> – his best known miracle involved restoring a basket of eggs that had maliciously been broken. Up until doing this walk, I had only heard of St. Swithun in the Billy Bragg song which talks about “St. Swithun’s Day,” (July 15th.)<\/p>\n