The Quest for England
(Filmed before lockdown 2) The lovely Julia and I play host to Sean James Cameron from The Allotment Channel, when he pops down to Worthing. After some business in the area, Sean and Julia and I, and little Joe, meet up for a perambulation on Worthing Pier and a bag of chips. Join us for […]
This is the second part of my South Downs walk above Amberley in West Sussex. I am heading down to ‘The Burgh’ passing an unusual plantation on the way. The second lockdown is upon us and I know that getting outdoors is essential for our metal health. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORERMy videos are funded […]
Today I am taking a walk on the South Downs, above Amberley in West Sussex. This site has chalk grassland and scrub on the slope of the South Downs. It has several unusual butterflies, moths and snails, including the light feathered rustic and juniper carpet moths and the rare Adonis blue butterfly. Sadly I didn’t […]
I am continuing to explore the landscape around the area walked by author and puppeteer, Walter Wilkinson, who entered Sussex in the late 1920s with a Punch and Judy show, and pushed his barrow around the back lanes to find audiences.He passes Hardham, Coldwaltham and Watersfield eighty years ago, and although barely mentions them in […]
What is it like to be a father during these terrible times? My son, Stanley, and his fiancée, Patricia, have just had a second child – my second grandson. So I stuck my microphone in his face and asked how he was coping as a new father during Covid times. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORERMy […]
I am in Burpham in West Sussex, close to Arundel and the river Arun. I am in search of the grave of author and priest, Tickner Edwardes. He wrote Lift-Luck on Southern Roads, among other books. It is this story of his journey along the byways from Devon to Sussex that i am reading in […]