The Quest for England
Today I go to find out about the power of the herb, not necessarily for cooking, but for health in the whole body. I travel to Lewes in East Sussex to meet Kym Murden, practising herbalist. As Kym says on her website, ‘I grow, collect and harvest as many herbs to make my remedies as […]
I am unboxing a Drone that was sent to me by one of my very generous viewers. The FIMI X8 SE should be a great piece of kit to fly, showing off many of the locations I visit in the future. I cannot fly the drone today because the weather outside is dreadful, very windy […]
I am back in the rural village of Duncton for the last time in this mini series, putting the community and its heritage under the microscope. John Robbins takes me on a journey following the course of the downland spring water; the reason for the village to have been settled by the Neolithic people and […]
There was an overwhelming response to the recent video where I returned to Horsham to look at the fields I used to play in as a child and found new houses had been built. I thought it worth giving a few more words to this subject and allowing some commentators words be heard too. PLEASE […]
Julia and I have colds. The only way to get rid of them is to cook something hot and spicy. Julia has the perfect solution – a home-made chilli con carne. Thanks to Jeff Kellison for the wonderful new frying pan, we rustle up the chilli con carne on the Esse woodburning stove. Find out […]
I have gone to look at the place I was brought up and the wonderful fields and footpaths I use to play on. Horsham was in the 1970s a small and growing commuter town in West Sussex. Roll forward 50 years and, like much of this country and Sussex in particular, the drive to gobble […]