The Quest for England
This is Part Two of the walk with my friend Richard Suggett from the Veg Grower Podcast. We started our walk on Stopham Bridge which crosses the river Arun near Pulborough. Our aim is to get close to the Toat Monument, a a Grade II listed folly erected by Samuel Drinkwater 1827, which is on […]
Today’s walk is in West Sussex. My friend Richard Suggett from the Veg Grower Podcast and I start our walk on Stopham Bridge which crosses the river Arun near Pulborough. Our aim to get close to the Toat Monument, a a Grade II listed folly erected by Samuel Drinkwater 1827, which is on private land. […]
Another week of fun and games behind the scenes with the Bald Explorer. More trouble with the Esse woodburning stove, but great fun with the Purple Ranger, Julia Hartley, recording a new gallery show, geocaching video. Richard Suggett joins me on a walk filmed for the Christmas period and I am in the studio recording […]
The Bald Explorer has a page on Facebook. Attached to this is the Bald Explorer Facebook Group with over 1200 members who post pictures of walks and places of interest sought out by them. To encourage more to join and post, and to highlight some of those wonderful photos and stories, Julia and I decided […]
A decade or so ago the Geocaching craze started to become widespread. Thanks to the proliferation of smart phones with their GPS capabilities the hobby is now simpler and even more fun. Geocaching is treasure hunt with millions of hidden troves or caches discreetly hidden all over the world. The fun is finding them and […]
This is the second part of the walk with lovely Julia that I have taken around the Ashurst area of West Sussex seeking out the changes in the countryside since 1977. My guide book was printed 41 years ago and although little has changed in that time, there are a few quirks along the way. […]