993 – Today

I had a strange dream last night. I’m not going to go into details here but it was sufficiently disturbing that at the point the dream ended I was wide awake feeling a bit disturbed. I had trouble getting back to sleep, but eventually I did.

The next thing I knew it was 5AM. I stayed awake long enough to have a quick look at the news on the iPad. But then fell back to sleep. I woke up a roughly the time I normally leave the house, which meant that insofar as I had a schedule, I was well behind.

The walk felt strange from the outset. It was colder than I expected. Carrying the tripod, my left hand got so cold that I needed to put a glove on. There was a pretty cold northerly wind causing the chill.

As I was stood on the Haslar Marina Pier Wall, I could see something above fort blockhouse, a ship coming in I didn’t recognise what I could see, so it was unlikely to be any of Mon St Michel, Normandie or Victoria of Wight. Perhaps a cruise ship coming in? It turned out to be the Star Cafe, a Reefer. It’s the ship in the header picture. The white containers are all refrigeration units. Probably bringing in a selection of fruit and veg, Portsmouth is known for handling that kind of produce.

Walking past the cockle pond, I noticed a lot more jelly fish with pink moons. I wonder if that means they are getting ready to lay their eggs. Because of the timing I cut the rest of this mornings walk.