Blustery Downs Walk from Upwaltham to Amberley - 4th October 2025
It's been a while since Strictly Lady Lloyd and I have undertaken a walk. Given the busyness of everyone's lives, we booked one in several weeks ago for this weekend, but hadn't made a firm plan about where to head. 'Where shall we go?' she asked. 'It's been a while since we've been up on the Downs,' I said. 'I've missed it.' It turns out that so had SLL, and so we found ourselves at a Cadence Cafe first thing in the morning. I say 'found ourselves at' very casually, as though we just set the coordinates on our tardis and arrived there, which fails to do justice to the catalogue of conversations and events which enabled it to happen. Firstly, it's worth reminding that the Cadence Cafe at Upwaltham was the scene of a near-divorce situation the first time round, due to some miscommunication and the tiny detail that there are not just one, but two so-named establishments close to the route, (although situated a significant dis...