The day started with what must be the shortest leg of the pilgrimage so far - just upstairs from the hall where we slept to the church for mass.

The service included anointing with oils for healing. Would all aches and pains go away and blisters mysteriously disappear?

The front-marking team included many potential pilgrims of the future (hopefully), walking with us for the day. Here, experienced pilgrim Ant trains Andrew in the important skill of putting arrows in places where they will be as difficult as possible to retrieve. And, in any case, putting arrows on statues is always fun.

Here are more shots of the front-marking team in action.

This sign certainly confirmed we were on the right route - Guildford in one direction, Farnham (tonight's destination) in the other.

No, it wasn't Harvest Festival, but the first drinks stop of the day, where apples were arranged on top of the car.

Beware of front markers crossing? Very clever, Ant!

A cross is always an appropriate landmark for our pilgrimage route, but is particularly useful for a mean frontmarker when . . .

. . . it is on a bridge that passes way above where we are walking.

Walking through the woods, we came across this strange artwork, just a few yards of the path, opposite a cottage. It includes a variety of apparently disparate items. Here, Mary, our foot nurse, considers whether the artificial leg might be a useful standby when pilgrims complain their own legs are not working properly anymore.

Lunch was in Puttenham, where there is this attractive village sign, but I wouldn't have liked to be that poor bird today - tweet, tweet!

The garden at The Good Intent, provided the venue for our lunch . . .

. . . which was enjoyed in the sunshine.

Camera Wars seems to be the latest pilgrimage sport. This is a photo of Aidan, taking a picture of . . .

. . . Steve, taking a picture of Aidan, taking a picture . . . etc.

Another innovation of more recent pilgrimages has been the use of GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) devices, which give you your exact grid reference and height above sea level, wherever you are (except in forests, apparently). Here, Dom, the youngest frontmarker checks the others are doing their jobs correctly. (Dom is also available for programming people's VCRs.)

It was only down the road from lunch to St John's Church for the first of our two afternoon prayer stops.

We were greeted by the priest-in-charge, who led us in prayer and then walked with us as far as the next church.

Another curiosity along our way was this 'tree house'. An apparently natural area on the trunk where the bark had died had been made into a door, complete with knocker, house number and 'no milk today' sign.

We arrived a little ahead of schedule at St Laurence's, Seale, our second church of the afternoon. A bench around an old tree provided a place to sit in the sunshine for a while.

Peter spoke to us about today's theme of patience, beginning by talking about the patience needed to cope with certain pilgrims loud snoring. He went on to make a more serious point about Christian patience and the acceptance of each moment in the present, rather than fretting about the future.

Tonight, we are in church hall of St Joan's in Farnham. We were greeted at the entrance by what appears to be a picture of a pilgrim, complete with walking pole.

Since getting in and having a meal, a short Taizé service has taken place to mark the fact that Brother Roger's funeral took place earlier today.