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Looking up the River Arun
with Arundel town in the distance
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Wow – five days without a
blog entry! It usually means we’ve been
on holiday or I’ve forgotten to take pictures.
This time it’s a bit of both.
Wednesday and Thursday
were quite uneventful – just the usual walking, cycling and chatting with passers-by. I did see my first Marbled White butterflies
of the year which was a pleasant surprise.
They are very skittish once they wake up and get on the wing during the
day, so it’s difficult to get a decent shot as they never land for more than a
few seconds.
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Best I could do with a
Marbled White
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One of the walks took us
across a wheat field which had a solitary ash tree in the middle. Usually, solitary trees tend to be oaks so
this seemed quite odd.
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Solitary ash rather than
the usual oak tree
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On Friday, we decided to
go camping for the weekend so set off down to West Sussex. My middle son, Steve, has moved into a new
flat in Arundel so we planned to see him on the Saturday. We went to a campsite in a place called
Ford. We have been there before but once
we got there we couldn’t think why we came back really. It’s run by a little Hitler woman with many
rules, including ‘No visitors’ which was a bit disappointing. There is one
field where only tents are allowed and also no children so we set up in there. The main field was full of motorhomes,
caravans and family tents.
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Set up for a couple of
days
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As our field was nice and
quiet it seemed to attract the rabbits so Buddy spent a lot of time, fully alert
watching them scampering around.
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Buddy on bunny watch
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On the Saturday we walked
up the River Arun to Arundel (see picture at the top) to meet up with
Steve. Although the campsite was just
over two miles from Arundel as the crow flies, it was nearly four miles by river
as it is so windy on its way to the sea.
Buddy still cannot get used to sea water; he always tries to drink it
and consequently gets even thirstier.
There were quite a few
butterflies out and we saw our first Small Skipper of the year too.
I may have mentioned that
Steve, Lauren and I are doing the national three peaks next year and Lauren put
some more practice in this weekend. She
was in South Wales for the weekend so walked up the two highest peaks in South
Wales – Pen y Fan and Corn Du.
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My daughter, Lauren
(right) and her friend Emily
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Coincidentally, our
friends Guy and Mirella, have recently bought a house on the beach about three
miles from our campsite and as they were down for the weekend, we went over to
see them in the evening. Guy, as usual,
cooked a marvellous dinner and we had a great evening catching up with
them.
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