Archive for Walking Class Hero
Walking Class Hero: Sound and Vision
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Our guide was featured on ‘Secret Britain’ when they covered the medicinal leeches of Dungeness. See, I told you the wildlife was exotic…
Tags: Dungenesss, The Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Walking the wall
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Everywhere blues, reds, and greens creep upwards like a bright giant lichen
Tags: Berlin Wall, The Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Northern Man
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I’ve journeyed up here to walk a stretch of the Pennine Way – from Once Brewed to Greenhead – with the poet Simon Armitage
Tags: Hadrian's Wall, Ramblers, Simon Armitage, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Hotter than July
Monday, July 19th, 2010
These colourful birds thrive round here lighting up the skies with flashes of luminous green while dominating the dawn and dusk choruses with their airborne shrieks
Tags: Ramblers Metropolitan Walkers, ring necked parakeets, The Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Sweet Thames flow softly
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Returning to the riverside we see a cormorant perched on a buoy spreading its wings to catch the dying rays of the sun
Tags: Battersea, Vauxhall, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Smoke on the Water
Friday, June 25th, 2010
The Merchant Taylors and the Skinners have always disputed their precedence, so once a year, at Easter, they exchange sixth and seventh place… the origin of the phrase “at sixes and sevens”
Tags: 1666, Deep Purple, The Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Message in a Bottle
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: Banksy, Charles Dickens, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Everybody Yurts
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Fed up with this new posh boy coalition politics I’m down in Brighton looking for evidence of the Green revolution
Tags: Brighton, FA Cup Final, The Great Escape, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Walking to work
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Last week (26-30 April 2010) was Walk to Work Week…So if I haven’t got any work to walk to does this make this an ironic act?
Tags: Ramblers Metropolitan Walkers, The Ramblers, Walk to Work, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: All that is solid melts into air
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: General Election, Ramblers, Walking Class Hero
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