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Walking With Daddy

Welcome to Walking With Daddy, a site about nature, the great outdoors and sharing those things with your family.

It's written by the father of two primary school age children, and explores the whole family's attempts to escape the screen and forge a healthy relationship with the outdoors.

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The conservation charity crunch is coming

The harsh economic winds buffeting many of us are hitting nature-friendly businesses hard. It's time to start making choices.

The conservation charity crunch is coming
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White Tailed Eagles in Dorset, and MP Chris Loder’s odd tweets

The strange case of the death of two translocated sea eagles, and the MP who doesn’t want this crime investigated.

White Tailed Eagles in Dorset, and MP Chris Loder’s odd tweets
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Not Walking with Daddy (again)

Once again, we're deprived of time outdoors. But it's not lockdown to blame, it's infection…

A stormy sunset over Shoreham Beach, looking west to Worthing pier.
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When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch

It appears, that after years of work, we finally have a thriving garden ecosystem. And lunch for a raptor.

When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch
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Waterhaul's Retask the Mask litterpickers: putting COVID plastic to good use

Litterpickers whose plastic components are made from NHS disposable masks? Brilliant idea! Here's how they work in use.

Waterhaul's Retask the Mask litterpickers: putting COVID plastic to good use

Recent Posts

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Surfers Against Sewage protest: Kingston Beach

People in Shoreham and Southwick have had enough. Southern Water can't keep throwing sewage into our seas.

The Surfers Against Sewage protest on Kingston Beach
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Review: Silence in the Age of Noise

When a book about silence isn’t really about an absence of audible noise, you know you’re being led on a quest by Erling Kagge towards something more personal and revelatory than you expected.

Review: Silence in the Age of Noise
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Nature Reads — 21st November 2022

Some good reading and viewing to kick off your week in natural style.

Autumnal leaves in Nymans Garden in West Sussex.