walk round Bosham

This is walk number 17.  I am not keeping up with this project each week, and often wonder whether to jack it in!  But anyway, here’s today’s walk, which was wonderful!  I took Mum for lunch at a lovely garden centre near Chichester, and then we drove down to Bosham which is in the area called Chichester Harbour.  It is such a lovely village!

We parked in the village and walked down to the quay, and were able to walk around to the other side of the lagoon as the tide was going out.  At high tide the water laps that wall and there is no path.

This si from further round the other side of the lagoon.

Then we walked back and round past the church.  You have to careful where you park here on the quay, that bit where the ice cream van and cars are parked is submerged at high tide!  Bet lots of cars have got wet!!!

There’s plenty of wild life about:

And here’s Mum!

work colleagues

Lots of changes going on at work, and last Tuesday we went to a ‘Change management’ workshop at Lodge Hill (fabulous venue) run by Spurgeons our new employer.  It was a lovely day and Lodge Hill is in gorgeous grounds, so we had to take a few pics!

Me, Judi, Tracey

Tracey, Me, Jane and Judi

Me, Tracey, Jane, Sue and Judi

Me, Tracey, Jane, Sue, Judi and Justine

Walk on Brighton Pier

Just as a contrast to Worthing Pier we went to Brighton Pier!  It has loads more shops and fun fair rides on it than Worthing:

The only money we spent was to buy an ice cream and a coffee!

It was a really beautiful sunny day and quite warm!  The pier was packed with people:

Love this view looking east:

Here’s the pier from the shore.  Notice the fish and chip kiosk in the foreground.  There must be hundreds of places to buy fish and chips in Brighton!

walk along Worthing Pier

I am a bit behind with my walks, so when we walked into town along the seafront this morning I thought I would photograph my walk along the pier.  Unfortunately the batteries in my camera died, so I borrowed DH’s camera.  As the sun was so bright I couldn’t see what I was taking!!!

There are always lots of shows on at the Pavilion theatre on the landward end of the pier.

The buildings on the pier are very art deco in style.

This is the night club at the end of the pier.  Just imagine all those girls trip-trapping along the wooden slats in their ultra high heels late at night!

 

There are always lots of fishermen fishing off the pier:

I am trying to get a feel for the art deco style here!

And finally:

But they didn’t say no kitesurfing over the Pier! (picture from Littlehampton gazette last November)

walk number 12

I am a bit behind with my walks.  But this afternoon we decided to go out with the dog, along the Ilex trees:

through the park in Ferring where they were playing football:

 

down the Rife (which was pretty full today and which Merlin couldn’t help but go in for a swim!) to the sea:

At the beach end of the Rife is the Bluebird cafe where we had a cup of tea, and ate our hot cross buns

Merlin watches very intently for a crumb!

And back along the seafront, where the wind got up and it was very chilly!

And then back up through the trees and to the car.  This picture shows the view looking back towards the sea, much better on a hot summer’s day!!

Tom’s 18th Birthday party

We had a fabulous time at Tom’s 18th birthday party last night.  It was held in the Dome, in the top room which is actually the dome.

This is what the dome looks like inside.  It was the 2 floors you can see in the picture above, the top floor being like a gallery.

 

Here’s Tom, Lucy, Kirsty and Steve arriving in the stretch hummer:

 

And finally a rather nice one of Maurice and Lucy:

Walk no 11

I have not kept up with ‘52’ walks, but here’s one we did today:

We decided as it was such a nice day to walk the dog somewhere a bit different.  But all the places we could think of would have had sheep and lambs – not a good idea with Merlin!  So we decided to go up to Cissbury Ring, an iron age hill fort just north of Worthing:

It is quite a steep climb up from where we usually park.  Merlin loves to run on ahead and then run back down the hill towards us!

Walking through the gate onto the actual ring itself

We walked on the lower path today, and round the other way! 

The path in the distance goes over towards Lancing clump, a place I frequesnted as a child!

Views to the south and the sea.

Views to the north and fields!

walk number 8 – Ferring Beach (again!)

It is one of my favourite walks!  The sun was shining so I took my camera, and nearly didn’t take my hat!  Glad I did – cos it was a cold wind!  The greensward is so soggy and muddy!  Merlin just loves splashing in the puddles, and was very muddy when we got home!  Right at this moment he is lying on my hall carpet making it muddy and smelly!!LOL!