Wigeon at Bosham

It’s a bright, sharp morning today with a hard frost so it took a while to remove the ice from our car an head over to Bosham to see what’s happening at Chidham Creek. Fortunately the mud is frozen so easy to walk on. The grass is covered in frost which glints in the light […]

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Erosion at East Head

 Ample evidence of the destructive nature of the recent storms was clear at East Head this morning. Adjacent to the car park the bank, at the entrance of the channel leading into the harbour, was severely eroded. There had been a sea wall (of sorts) made of wood in the fashion of a groyne  protecting […]

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Stunning Rainbows at Princestead

 Not particularly good news on the radio this morning, all rather gloomy. The hospitals are starting to become overloaded with Covid patients, numbers are as high in places as they were in April. There are more storm warnings which will compound the misery of those flooded earlier. At least the Brexit deal seems reasonable so, […]

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Aftermath of Storm Bella

 Last night was certainly windy, we heard it surging round the houses; there was plenty of rain too. By breakfast time the storm seemed to have blown itself out as blue skies had returned, it was quieter all round. Out on the roads the results of the storm were clear, dead wood, twigs and occasional […]

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Boxing Day Walk at Chidham

 There were reports that the Wittering Estate was fully booked for the weekend. This made us cautious about where to go for our walks, we prefer being away from crowds of other folk no matter how nice the are; popular places are not popular with us. Chidham seemed to be worth a try, the tides […]

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Sunshine!

 After days of foul weather today Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are forecast to be fine due to a ridge of artic air flowing south. True to form it’s bright and sunny as we set off to walk around Bosham Hoe from Smugglers Lane. The sunshine really lifts the spirit as we set off down […]

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Water Everywhere

 Nutbourne and Prinstead makes the destination again today as we need more supplies for  Christmas from the Southbourne Farm shop. Not much has changed since yesterday it’s still cloudy, rainy and rather dull. It’s such a shame, last night there was a conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn. If we’d been able to see it, it […]

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Low Tide Flight

 It’s the 21st of December  today which makes it the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight. As we set off at just after 8am when it’s still quite dark although the inclement weather makes it worse. After a weekend of rain there’s a particularly nasty depression passing through today bring more rain […]

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Pagham Harbour

 It’s Friday which means fish and a trip to Julies, so our walk this morning is around Pagham Harbour. As we walk down to the foreshore there’s the whine of a chain saw and that autumnal smell of a bonfire. The smoke has a pleasant resinous tang to it, perhaps someone is removing the pine […]

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Warm Weather, Warm Skies

 We’re going to have a rather unstable week weather wise with a string of depressions circling around a stationary low in the North Atlantic. It’s going to be showery at best otherwise stormy but with the wind coming from the south west at least it’s going to be warm. Today it’s a positively balmy eleven […]

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