A delightful, autumnal stroll east ...with nothing in my pocket

must have missed this one when it came out, such a simple concept yet so enjoyable. could watch 100 of these haha

Hands down one of the best videos you’ve done! More please! Such a simple idea yet kinda genius 👍🏻 and the history of all these random tiny places is fascinating. Been watching for years and recently re-watched your Black Country no roads mission and as a tram driver is was rather interesting to see you run through our depot. Keep it up dude 😎

Tom, have you EVER netted a goal on your channel?

yeah please do a video about phones/screens

I’ve been obsessed with your adventure videos ever since I started watching two years ago. I had to subscribe to the Patreon so I wouldn’t miss any. Keep up the good work Tom. 🫡

How far was the walk, in the end?

Tom id really like to see that video about screens, I am myself struggling with my screen time , been thinking of switching to a “dumbphone”

I've only just joined the patreon Tom, and best decision I've made honestly. You've been my favourite creator for years now and I truly admire your work. You've single handedly given me confidence to go out and explore and I can't thank you enough. Lichfield and the Staffordshire countryside are both brilliant places to be, even in the dead of winter. Keep doing your stuff mate, it's helped me a ton

In America, if a town had two people in it one of them would open a store lol, can’t imagine a place with nothing for convenience…

If anything refusing the soup at that point is worse than taking it and not paying. She's doing it for a good deed, I doubt she was in it for the 3 quid.

Totally with you on the phone thing. Recently my phone got water damaged the evening before a return flight to manchester. Thought I was done for but actually it was so nice travelling without it once I had my boarding pass and train tickets printed. I wasn't stressing about keeping it charged etc, on top of all of the exhausting and anxiety inducing social media distractions (at least for me!). Got reading through loads of my book and I was getting round central manchester with a little pocket map from smiths. Made a boring trip into a little adventure really. They sell you the illusion of convenience by making it a tool for everything, which makes every task a hook for bringing your attention back in.

Have you thought about doing some stealth camps think you’d have the balls to do some mad ones

You're not wrong about phones at the start of the video. I live quite remote in Sweden, so I'm lucky enough that when I'm out, I generally don't have any signal on my phone, so there's nothing that's pulling my attention to the phone. But the amount of things that try to grab your attention at all times of the day is quite bad. I personally don't really use any social media, but even then it's hard. If you can live without a (smart) phone, I absolutely would recommend it! A video about that journey would be interesting as well.

Fantastic stuff Tom! Nowt worse than getting caught short 😄 We only live in Derbyshire and haven't heard of any of those villages! The pub looked decent. Might have to pay it a visit! Cheers 🍻

I do envy you at times Tom. Being able to just go out and about in nature basically right at your doorstep. We have nature here in the low lands of course but it's small and fenced off and one step and you are on a highway. I live in the "rural" part of The Netherlands and even I have trouble finding proper nature here or have a quiet countryside where you can just enjoy the air

Me and my wife are debating how you used the egg carton. She thinks you wiped your arse with it, I think you used it to make a trench because obviously a seasoned explorer like you carries tissues 🤣

Very, very enjoyable. I’m seriously considering retuning to the UK and these videos just make me want to get back home! Thanks for sharing these wonderful journeys with us.

I believe you stumbled onto the origin of steeplechase, the olympic athletics event!

Tom - that was truly amazing. Good old mate of mine is the vicar of the 5 churches along the Mease Valley. Elford. Edingale. Harlaston. Clifton Campville. Then you went steeple-chasing one more time. Surely you were going to complete the set - all 5 in one one day... BUT YOU TURNED NORTH TO LULLINGTON. Dang it, if you's carried on East you'd have have hit Chilcote - and probably trespassed the fields of another friend I'm due to meet on Monday. Oh, the opportunity missed ;-)

The little popcorn flies are probably Wooly Aphids :)

Which gps watch do you have Tom?

Great one as usual Tom! I have to say even tho the lack of food led you away from the planned ruote it was actually fun and interesting to see you search for a meal so I think at the end it worked out great. Btw I would love to hear your thoughts on screen addiction and the likes, it would be great content for patreon or even youtube. As for phones addiction I would recommend you looking into dumbphones, which could be like older flip phones and stuff like that or newer phones made with the purpose of providing only the essentials without any of the distracting/addicting things. Or simply dumbing down your own phone if one has the self control to stick to the limitations.

Absolute blinder of a video - Cheers Tom!

I enjoyed this--especially the footage of old churches and info about names. Incidentally, I swapped my smartphone for a brickphone a couple months ago. For me, anyway, it has been a great decision. Haven't regretted it once.

Cheers Tom. God I love a pint of Bass! Bloody hell, I noticed a swarm of those tiny white flies near Melton Mowbray a few weeks back. They were getting themselves stuck on all the webs but the spiders didn't seem interested. Perhaps they aren't a Leicestershire delicacy...

Me and my little boy love your videos … he’s also been asking me to make a comment on them for ages, so now I have. Ps. I also agree RE your smartphone comments. PPS. This is another great video. Thank you

I would 100% watch a series that was just looking around various old rural churches

Genuinely one of your best videos yet lovely church's make you proud great vid

Love the video and totally agree about your views on smartphones! I love your content, the style and some of your values but strongly disagree with some of your political thoughts. I do, however, think it's important to engage with others who are different from ourselves: otherwise we're all buggered!

Good luck with your smartphone Geowizard!

got rid of a smartphone Tom and it was the best thing I did. I have a dumb phone for my day to day in my pocket now. My smartphone actually lives at my computer desk, I keep it just so I can link to whatsapp on my computer and nothing else. But life has been very refreshing without constant social media in the pocket

Great video...maybe a proper church themed ep with a bit more exploring in the churches would make a great video. Love British churches in the countryside.

Especially love this style of video, a great pick me up!

Thanks Tom. Love these!

Thanks Tom - brightened up a dark November evening.

When you randomly picked up the egg carton, I immediately thought of point-and-click adventures. Amazing Monkey Island moment when you got to use it.

Great video. I might need to give this a shot some weekend.

Love these sort of vids. Also keen to hear more on your thoughts on screens/smartphones (dumbphones ftw)

I'm guessing that stuff you got on your hands was a load of mashed aphids. They swarm all over stems of plants and sticks. Really love the history interludes by the way. I sometimes go on Komoot and filter the map to show points of interest, then visit a few of them on a bike ride. Some of them are busts (e.g. old Time Team excavation that has been covered back up) but some of them are really cool. Found the remains of a Roman villa and a chunk of in tact mosaic floor in Spoonley woods near where I live in Cheltenham doing that.

Nice one, Tom 👌

Here we go! Excited to watch it soon!

Oooh exciting will be watching this very soon. TY Tom.

Just what I needed for a Wednesday evening. Thanks Tom

These adventures mean so much more when it’s pitch black outside. They’re a little hit of unconventional Vitamin D.

Steeple hopping sounds interesting. Church to church would be a cool adventure through the countryside

Pleasant little wednesday surprise, nice one Rodney 👍

Love u

Excellent, pissing rain here, what better way to spend it than a take away dinner and Geo strolling around the country side 👍👍

Thanks tom

Cheers Tom