This is an early call for members to submit walks for the next programme. Available dates are any Sunday from the 3rd January to 27th June, unless someone else gets there first! You can see the details required from the current programme. In particular, I required a name and number for the leader, and a starting point and time for the walk.

If you are interested in submitting a walk, please contact me (James) either by e-mail at jmansson@argo-software.co.uk or by phone on 01403 753617. Alternatively, catch me on a walk.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get to the walk as my car broke down…

Hopefully, those who did make it had a good time. I would be interested in reading you comments on the walk.

I have provisionally booked the Foresters Arms at Fairwarp for our Christmas Lunch. We will meet there on the 5th Decemeber at 12 noon, with the meal being served at 12:30 pm. If you are interested in attending, please contact me (James) either by e-mail at jmansson@argo-software.co.uk or by phone on 01403 753617.

This walk has been postponed to the 8th November, due to bad weather.

Claire is leading this walk again, this time with the Brighton Explorer’s Club. See here for more details.

I wasn’t able to attend today’s extra walk, but if anyone who was there wants to comment, please feel free to do so here.

Steve has supplied some photos of the walk, which I am going to put up soon.

I’ve just got back from an enjoyable walk led by Katy.

Starting from the Village Hall car park in Ditchling, we worked our way through the pleasant Sussex countryside to the Plough Inn at Plumpton. On the way we passed through an enclosure of free range chickens; it was a remarkable sight and an even more remarkable sound. Hopefully Steve will be able to supply me with some of the photos he took of them!

After lunch at the Plough (the food was excellent), we made the journey back to Ditchling. Unfortunately, the weather was not quite so good for this section of the walk. Perhaps the marker by the railway crossing with the code “666D” was a bad omen! Steve has a photo of that too…

Anyone who was on the walk who wishes to leave a comment, please feel free to do so.

Many thanks to Claire, who has offered to do an additional walk on this date.

It starts at 10:30 am on the 18th October from Uckfield bus station (GR TQ 472 209, Explorer Map 135) and is 8 miles with a pub stop.

Claire promises:

One section with some clambering over rocks and short climbs otherwise mostly flat. Varied scenery woods,pasture,riverbanks,and a magical lake with rocky promontories and majestic redwood trees. I will bring some wildlife books and we can have a fungi foray…

Unfortunately, Karen has had to cancel her walk on the 27th September, because she recently discovered that a crucial section has been closed for maintenance. There will now be no walk on that date.

I’ve just got back from leading my Rudgwick walk, which starts from the King’s Head pub at the north end of the village. The first half runs down the eastern side of Rudgwick, across the A281 and down the dismantled railway track, before heading west to the Haven and the Blue Ship pub. The second half runs up the other side of the village, up onto the hills before finally arriving back at the start from the west.

It was good walking weather, and there was the added bonus that the walk coincided with Rudgwick Steam Rally, which provided some added sound and colour to the first part of the walk. Lunch was very pleasant at the Blue Ship, a pub noted for its distinctive interior, where the bar cosists only of a hatch!

Thanks to all that attended, and if you want to leave comments on the walk, please feel free to do so.