The Quest for England
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
In today’s video I am chatting to Mike Dixon who has worked in Mental Health and extols the benefits of getting outside, meeting people and taking up hobbies. In this modern life with the heavy workload and pressures that many working people find themselves, as well as the fast paced life styles many other often […]
Kevin Hall invited me for a coffee at a rural community shop and café in the lovely village of Milland in West Sussex. Apart from drinking the lovely brew and having a pastry, he was keen to show me the curious village pond with sheep wash. It’s January and already the daffodils are out! PLEASE […]
I am continuing my walk along the South Downs Way – this stretch commences from Ditchling Beacon and gets to the big V n the northern slope. I am joined by the lovely Julia Hartley and Kevin Hall. In 1887 the country was celebrating Queen Victoria’s silver jubilee. Ten years later, her diamond jubilee followed. […]
The new GoPro 8 camera have an improved on-board microphone, and it is really rather good if you can prevent the wind blowing against it. In today’s video, I have made a Heath Robinson wind gag. You can buy them for a little money, but I thought I would see if I could improvise with […]
Continuing the mini series exploring the villages along the Worthing to London road, the A24, Julia and I have come to rural community of Washington. It lies at the foot of the South Downs on the north face. John Ireland, the composer, live here in a windmill and just under two thousand years ago there […]
I am clambering around the wonderful Southdowns on Ditchling Down, in East Sussex. I want to show off the fabulous northern escapements and coombes of the Downs above the village of Ditchling. Very often when we look at the Southdowns from the Sussex Weald we see the range of undulating hills in silhouette because the […]