Why keep walking?
Student Cross is such a great community of friends. Even though we sometimes don’t see each more than twice a year, coming on Student Cross feels like a homecoming for our kids as well as the adults. Holy Week and Easter just isn’t the same anyway else.

A fact no-one knows about you?
I have size 8 feet

Essential piece of pilgrim kit?
Mini Mars bars (shhh don’t tell the children) stashed away in our day racksack.

Front traffic or support car packer?
Front traffic is a great way of finding time to reflect away from the group. Our route is often off-road through beautiful countryside and it’s a chance to be part of that. Besides the support car doesn’t need much packing as we stay in the same place during Holy Week, mostly buckets and spades for the beach and lunch.

Ideal sandwich filling and accompanying drink?
Peanut butter or ham if I’m quick enough to get one. Holy Week is when I indulge my taste for a pint of mild when near a pub. Otherwise orange squash!

Favourite song (on the road or in the pub)?
Grand old Duke of York (bear with me here) with the words altered to incorporate Fish and Chips and other food items

What makes a good leg liturgy?
Something that touches us deeply whatever age we are. I especially like learning from what the children have to share at evening prayer and Stations.

A pilgrim prayer in 20 words or less?
A pilgrim prayer in 20 words or less? Bless our time together as families and friends, help me both rise early with children and stay up late with friends. Amen.

What Walsingham means to you?
We walk the whole way into Walsingham over two days, so a sense of journey’s end and sharing with all the other Legs of Student Cross. Timelessness – all the times I’ve ever been roll into one and spending time with our extended Student Cross family. A sense of the importance of Easter.

Anything else to declare?
I didn’t pack my own bag officer.