LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN JURBY (Part one) I was delighted to receive an invitation from four-times winner Jock Waddington to be one of the Parish Walk ‘bloggers’ for 2023. The event has given me (as well as hundreds of others on the Island) a great deal of pleasure over the years, though also much pain and disappointment! It is also humbling to see the calibre of some of my blogging predecessors, whilst I will be following my fellow scribe (and 2021- and 2022-Women’s winner) Sammy Bowden’s tips with interest, as you are never too old to learn… Walking Background I first entered the Parish Walk back in 1999 without really knowing much about it apart from being aware that my brother Allen had taken part in the event around twenty years previously with his school friend Murray Lambden. Since that date I have taken part every year it has been held up to and including 2021, having a best performance of reaching Maughold in 2015 (yes, I know I should have done better!). In 2022 I ‘reluctantl