It’s Saturday, and we didn’t really want to do very much, but we did want to get out of the house for a bit. Elayne suggested that we go to a local Cafe, Dolly’s for Breakfast which was very nice. I think the Full English is probably my favourite meal. It pretty much lasted me until dinner time, so that was good.
We stopped off at the services Charity Shop and Elayne bought a couple of things and so, as we were close to home I went back to drop them off. On my way back into town to catch up with Elayne, I stopped to watch a cute cat that was absolutely determined to get into the rubbish Wheelie-bin of one of the houses I pass, it managed to get the lid up, and looked as though it was about to jump down into it. I confess I was concerned that if it did jump down it would get stuck, but I saw no point in interfering, as I knew it would come back as soon as I walked off, which I did.
From Dolly’s which is on Stoke Road, we walked into the town, Elayne met up with some of her WI friends and I had a chat with some of the blokes from the Gosport Men’s Shed. I told them about the Astronomy chair that I want, a weatherproof reclining chair that rotates and has a bracket that can hold a pair of binoculars. They were quite surprised about the idea of naked-eye or binocular observing.
We walked over to Trinity Church and along the side. As we were walking between the church and the Millennium Sundial, I was reminded by the straight line in the middle of the path about how I wanted to see if I could create a straight line in Gosport, that I could use to practice my vlogging and some research for the book.
Elayne sat down for a bit whilst I walked out to the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall, where I took today’s photo, and as I started walking back, it began to rain fairly heavily. I really appreciated my new waterproof coat, which I had bought in Dorchester earlier in the week. We sat for a few minutes under the umbrella, just enjoying being out and dry, sheltered from what was a really quite chilly wind.
We walked along the prom, and popped into the Tourist Information office to ask about Gosport Ferry Trips, we’ve done a few of these and they are usually quite good fun (although we sometimes get a bit bored with the “Grand Harbour Tour” they always have at the end. It seems there are only nine scheduled this year, we will have to see where we are with that.
We went to Cafe One, for a drink and a small piece of Tiffin, both of which were very nice. and then took a slow walk up the high street. I popped into CEX, I was looking at the videos, and found a copy of Fifth Element – I’ve seen it before, but wanted to watch it again, it was only £2.50, and I thought that was reasonable enough. I would also have had a look for Bridge of Spies, as I like that film as well, but couldn’t find it.
I was very surprised to see that the Charity Shop for the British Heart Foundation had closed down. This was a pity as for all of the charity shops in town, it had by far the best book section. Frustrating.
We carried on up to the Discovery Centre where Elayne had decided she had done enough walking so I left her in the cafe, and went home to get the car. As I was passing the house where I had earlier seen the cat trying to get into the wheelie-bit, I went and knocked on their door, and when they answered explained what I had seen and my concern, the lady was very pleasant and understanding and said it wasn’t her cat, but it had got into the bin before, and had been able to get out, but we checked anyway and of course, it was empty, so I did feel a bit of a fool, but the lady put some bricks on top to stop it trying again, so I was able to walk away comforted. I picked Elayne up and we wnt home.
I have to say it was a very pleasant few hours.
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