Peregrine

 Peregrines can do ‘peregrinatio’ at 320 kmph, considerably faster than your average pilgrim. Peregrines are the fastest creatures in the world. Humans can be amongst the slowest. The word implies travelling into foreign parts, over medieval mountains. Even plodding our peregrinationes inside the 10 km radius surrounding our home opens up foreignness. Local looks new, alive, strange even. Home truths indeed. Home life is what we make it: options include inferno, purgatorio, paradiso. The garden path can be a heavenly pilgrimage. We are charmed by our Collins Street peregrines, described on earthquake day as “internet stars… gripping a housebound nation.”