The Quest for England
I am back in Ferring, in West Sussex, and this time I am taking a stroll alongside the Ferring Rife. This stream rises in the West Durrington area of Worthing. It has multiple sources including one near Castle Goring and another in Titnore Wood. The streams converge that make up the Ferring Rife converge north […]
I am on the beach of the River Adur long the Shoreham Estuary. The tide is out, and I am looking at the fishing and pleasure boats lying on the shingle, and peering at the amazing crustaceans that litter the pebbly ground. I hadn’t realised just how far you can wander towards Shoreham town from […]
I’ve been keeping a paper record of my life for many years. Some of these journals go back to my twenties when I was studying at mime school in the mid 1980s. Sadly, I no longer have them, but I have managed to hold on to diaries I’ve written in the nineties. They have certainly […]
The sunshine may be over for a while but it should stop us enjoying the wondeful countryside in spring time. I have taken a short woodland walk up a track near Findon in West Sussex, just north of Worthing, on the South Downs. Just bursting into bloom are elder trees and hawthorn. We still have […]
Making bread, rather than just picking it off a supermarket shelve, has to be one of the most primeval acts you can do. The staff of life; Man has been making this since the Neolithic times and the ingredients are very basic indeed.There are plenty of recipes, it seems to me looking on line, but […]
Bluebells in a woodland setting is quite magical. Today I have ventured down to Clapham, near Worthing, in West Sussex, to find a carpet of this amazing flowers. I decided to go early before the world and his brother come out, and by getting over to this woodland while dawn is breaking also offers me […]