Walking Arundel & Our Old Warehouse
Walking With Elsa
Since Lockdown, Elsa and I have
explored new paths on our morning walks.
It's what has kept body and soul together.
We have found some of the most wonderful places.
Right on our Arundel doorstep.
I saw hoar frost for the first time in my life.
On the path from Madehurst to Bignor.
And there it was.
Like stepping into a different world.
I was mesmerised.
Elsa rolled around in it.
I didn't actually roll around in it, though I was sorely tempted.
Over the year we came across field upon field of wild flowers
We walked through bluebells, swathes of wild garlic, foxgloves, wild orchids and heather.
Slindon, Madehurst, Burpham, Binsted and Blakehurst,
all among our favourites.
We sat watching bright blue dragonflies dance over water in flooded fields.
Reclined for a while, high on hills,taking in the breathtaking
views to Amberley, North Stoke, South Stoke and "The Norfolk Clump"
Spotted eagles and kites wheeling under clear summer skies and deer standing among the bluebells in the woods, backlit by shafts of sunlight.
Fungi that looked like works of art.
All shapes and sizes.
Huge, some of them.
We found a monument on a secluded path miles
from anywhere covered in poppies,
in memory of US airforce plane that crashed in 1944.
We stumbled across a beautiful statue in the middle of woodland .
An old red telephone box...now help yourself Tourist Information kiosk in a small hamlet.
We walked regularly over swampy water.... across the small bridge built by a Gurkha unit in the 80's.
We came across signs deep in the woods in Slindon, telling us it was an airfield in the 1st World War.
What an amazing place we live in.
And when I say all this "we" ... of course, Elsa isn't as mesmerised as me.
She just wants to chase rabbits across those hills.
Arundel Eccentrics
are in Arundel.
with their English and French antique furniture in a 19th-century brewery warehouse.
For more of what they do follow them on Instagram.
Here is a sample of their collection.
Open by appointment or chance.
Contact us through Instagram
