The happy group by St Andrew's church Bishopstone cheerfully lead by Tess in perfect weather.

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Descending towards Bishopstone.…

A reminder about my London walk on Saturday.  Rotherhithe Circular from Canada Water.

Please phone, text, or e-mail me the day before if you are joining me at Brighton Station for the 9.25 to London Bridge. ( 9.29 Preston Park).  it should be a fine, sunny day.

Geoff

After visiting the Saxon church at Pycombe, this three miles walk took the group up into the mist and low cloud. Black cows and calves loomed into view and took no notice of us. New to the hill was a group of young steers, which were inquisitive and stood and stared as we walked amongst them.

With no views, the group posed at the trig’ point on…

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I still have about 10 tickets for this show at Chichester Festival Theatre.  They are £31 tickets that cost £23 because of the number I bought.  Please email or phone me if you are interested.  Mick Thatcher  01273 500341

Glyndebourne has contacted me to let us know about their Open Garden days on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th September. This is just for information and will not be a BAHR event.

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I’m writing to let you know about our Open…

Please see https://youtu.be/rdNWqIR3tug for the activity on the hill on Saturday 24 July 2021.

The next conservation work party can be seen at http://www.wolstonbury.com/

The Pride of Sussex, our county flower is…

Egg-laying Southern Hawker dragonfly, above and a Common Blue Damselfly below

more pic's at …

Just four BAH Ramblers were on the Knepp walk on Friday 2 July 2021. No Purple Emperors were sighted but lots of other natural history was.  Here are a few pic's: many more pic's at https://sussexrambler.blogspot.com/…

Improve Your Navigation Skills



Brighton & Hove Ramblers has arranged a one-day navigation course to improve people’s skills and confidence in their ability to plan and navigate walks in the great outdoors. It will start from first principles and cover various aspects, from grid references, compass skills and bearings, to timings and how to complete a route card. After the course you should feel confident in your ability to plan a route and navigate…

The "Friends of Wolstonbury", http://www.wolstonbury.com/dates.htm were out in the rain today maintaining many steep flights of steps on Wolstonbury Hill, where, as the Early-purple orchids start to fade so Common-spotted', Twayblades and Butterfly orchids emerge.  And the tiny…

The weather forecast looks favourable to see some butterflies on Thursday. A different route is planned from 12 days previously, which you can see at https://www.outdooractive.com/en/routeplanner/?fromtmpl=210596696 

However, there is…

Janice photographing Early-spider orchids on Castle Hill National Nature Reserve.

Early-spider orchids: Wendy counted 70 flowers on a c.100m transept.  We also saw dozens more across the valley on…

Thirteen naturalists boldly braving the weather, strode up from Pycombe old A23 cul-de-sac to the summit of the first hill.

From 15 registrants there was a couple of pre-advised no…

https://sussexrambler.blogspot.com/2021/05/fairmile-bottom-and-rewell-wood.html

for the route and more pic's

It's with great sadness that I have to inform you that Sandra lost her fight with…