Fishbourne on Foot

It’s just over 20 minutes walk to Fishbourne meadows along streets that are not particularly interesting; I suppose that’s only about 10 minutes more than by car once you’ve faffed about getting there. This is what we’ll have to accept for now until the restrictions ease, at least there are several options to take, today […]

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West Walls – Deserted!

How wrong can you be? I’d expected the paths close to home around the West Walls of the City to be busy with lots of people out trying to get exercise themselves or for their dogs. In reality there was one cyclist, one jogger and one couple returning from Waitrose; no difficulty in keeping distance. […]

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Last Time to Dell Quay by Car for a While

We chose Dell Quay for a walk this morning as it would be easy to avoid people, that is if they were there, which wasn’t the case. However, on returning we saw in the paper that the Chief Medical Officer has now clarified the position regarding the one exercise we’re permitted a day. From now […]

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Social Distancing in Nutbourne

We’d hoped to be able to drop into the Southbourne Farm Shop for some fruit and salad but even at eight am there was a queue of people, all 2m apart, the length of the building waiting patiently to go in. We decided we could do without fresh fruit for now and hope it would […]

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Once a day Exercise at Bosham Hoe

Yet another absolutely wonderful sunny day, with a light fresh wind, classic spring weather. Our allowance is only one period of exercise a day so we need to spend it wisely, we also need to choose a place where it’s easy to keep two metres away from other people. Bosham Hoe fits the bill perfectly […]

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Waders at Appuldram

Another bright sunny day, even nicer that yesterday, as the wind has eased. We’re now only allowed out of our house for one session of exercise which, for us, is a walk around the north east part of the Fishbourne Channel. The roads are noticeably quieter today after the draconian steps announced the previous evening. […]

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Sunny times at Dell Quay

By going early we hoped to avoid people out walking at Dell Quay which is usually rather popular, but a lovely walk to the marina and back. This proved to be the case, although many were out yesterday which invoked much criticism, we only encountered two walkers with their dogs keeping their distance. Clearly somebody […]

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Avoiding Everyone in Chidham

The virus situation is getting serious, in Italy people are not allowed out, Wittering Estate is now closed, how much longer will we be able to enjoy walking in the countryside? We’re not in total lockdown yet so enjoyed a short walk at Chidham keeping several meters away from the few other people also out […]

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Church Norton & Selsey

Hopefully the good weather will dry out the paths and open up some other walks but for today it’s a last look at the wildfowl at Pagham. Arriving at the harbour there wasn’t much to see, most seem to have flown away. There was only a few Redshanks and a couple of Oystercatchers, very quiet. […]

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Breezy Ichenor

So much for the good weather originally forecast, it may not be raining but there’s a stiff north easterly breeze that cuts right through you, especially along the mud berths at Ichenor which look rather bleak.In the fields a tractor is ploughing, so much for “min till” Naturally there was a cloud of seagulls behind […]

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