Elayne has been away for a couple of days. Left to my own devices at home, I had some household jobs which I made sure were done today, before anything else. Then sat down to decide what I was going to do for the rest of the day.
I looked up the Gosport Discovery Centre to find that it was open until 1700. Sometime between 2 and 3 PM, I left the house to walk into town.
I walked past the Richard Martin Gallery. He had a pair of starcharts in the window, from the 1770s. I’d quite liked to have had them, but then noticed the price, just under £700, so I thought not. I’d have had nowhere to put them anyway.
I know that I walked around the Cockle Ponds yesterday and was delighted to see that there are Jellyfish in the pond, and to be honest, there is little point in checking on the jellyfish every day. But if I want to get out, I might as well go that way anyway. The sun was moving behind the clouds, and the surface of the ponds was quite rough, making it difficult to see into the depths. Just occasionally, I got a view of some small jellyfish, which was about it.
One of the main reasons I wanted to go into town was to go to The Discovery Centre. I was looking for a Pauline Rowson book. It didn’t matter which one. Pauline (I don’t know her, so I hope she doesn’t mind my informality) writes books based around the local area. I didn’t want to borrow it, I wanted to do a quick read-through to see how she uses place and business names in her books. She writes mostly murder mysteries involving Portsmouth Police, and her main character DI Andy Horton.
I decided that if there was a book in the library I would spend an hour looking at it. Luckily, there was a copy of the Suffocating Sea, which was published in 2008, and in that hour I looked through 200-plus pages. During that time, I identified 30+ locations, a church and several businesses. I was curious about one location Petit Port on Guernsey, so I looked it up, and confirmed that it does exist.
Why did I do that? I guess I haven’t completely given up on the idea that somewhere inside me is a work of fiction.
Bills Posts 