This year’s four-day Whalley Abbey walking retreat, earlier this month, was led by Ven. Mark Ireland, Archdeacon of Blackburn, and his wife, Gill. This included not only some walks around the beautiful, tranquil scenery in the grounds of Whalley Abbey and beyond into the Ribble Valley and Pendle Hill, but also some reflections and bible study, concentrating on the book of Exodus and Moses’s leading of the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.