The Great British Countryside starts on BBC1/BBC1 HD at 8pm on 16th February and is hosted by Countryfile's Julia Bradbury and Outnumbered's Hugh Dennis. The 4 part series starts in Cornwall and Devon, when Hugh retraces the steps of King Arthur at Tintagel Castle and Julia ventures to the spookiest part of Dartmoor, featured in Sherlock Holmes.

• Cornwall & Devon (shown on 16th February)
• Yorkshire (shown on 23rd February)
• South Downs (shown on 1st March)
• Scottish Highlands (shown on 8th March)

My filming took place at the Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, with Julia Bradbury on 17th January.

I had three mornings of mudlarking on the River Thames at Vauxhall and Bermondsey. On the 25th I came across some of the FROGs that I had trained with in 2011.

(New TV series of Mud Men starts on History)

BBC Scotland invited me to take part in the filming of an episode of Britain Beneath Our Feet (working title) - a four-part series featuring the South Downs, Yorkshire, Cornwall and Devon and the Scottish Highlands, exploring how geology has affected British landscapes and the people who live there.

I was asked to do some flintknapping and archery with presenter Julia Bradbury at the Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, near Chichester.

I attended the second day of the 6th annual Experimental Archaeology Conference hosted by York University Archaeology Dept in King's Manor with around 30 other enthusiastic archaeologists and presenters.

The morning consisted of five interesting lectures, followed by a choice of two different practical experimental sessions in the afternoon. I joined the session on butchery and was soon dissecting a rabbit with one of my flint tools.

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