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Janet Street-Porter describes her sometimes gruelling, sometimes hilarious, attempt to walk the 350 miles from Edinburgh Observatory to Greenwich Observatory in a dead straight line. She discovers a new way of walking: an OS map isn’t quite so handy when you stray off the line you’ve drawn on the map. What’s more useful is a heavy clearing stick, the power of persuasion and the patience of a saint.