I am out on a morning’s recce for my In Search of Sussex series, following in the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke. Today I want to find the view-points that Arthur and his photographer friend, Mr Swain, I believe, stood when making a couple of sketches for the book, Off The Beaten Track. It’s been […]

I was asked by one of my viewers what the procedure was after shooting the footage for one of my videos. Because it was a damp and dismal day outside, I thought I would answer this question without going into too much detail and give and overview of my approach. I hope you find this […]

Today I visit a beautiful English Wild Flower Meadow – the countryside was once full of them and now they have all but vanished. I talk to Michael and Jane Joseph from Sussex about their incredible meadow, and about the insects that thrive there, the birds that visit and all the other amazing creatures that […]

This is part two of a three part series following in the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke from his book Off The Beaten Track – Chapter Five – Devil’s Dyke to Kingston in West Sussex. In this episode I pass through Mile Oak and clamber up onto Southwick Hill in search of the Sit and […]

I have enlisted the help of Richard Suggett, from the Veg Grower Podcast, to help me with my filming today. We are shooting the second part of my In Search of Sussex video following a walk from Devil’s Dyke to Kingston in West Sussex, but we have to stay six feet apart because fo the […]

As a footnote to my video walking down the Sussex Border Path recently, I take a stroll along the Monarch’s Way to search for a Trig Point north of Portslade on the South Downs. I start at the Foredown Tower, that at one time was a water tower for the now long gone Hangleton Hospital […]