Author Archives: Bill

It seems that I have accumulated rather a lot of emails in gmail. Google has been sending me a lot of remiinders that I am running out of space, and suggesting that I buy more. To be honest, I think I will just delete unnecessary emails, I seem to have a fairly efficient method ofContinue reading “2096 – Managing email”

I haven’t seen a starling for quite a while. I’ve heard them on occasion, and not very many. We were sitting at the bottom of the garden, enjoying a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits, when I heard what sounded like quite a few Starlings. I looked around, and there were literally hundredsContinue reading “2095 – The Starlings return & the Butterflys are twitchy”

I’m at a stage of planning the Portsmouth video where I can almost think about drafting the prompt cards. I pretty much have the locations sorted; all that remains is time. Not yet, though. In the meantime, I need to come up with something that can fill the space between those moments, and yet notContinue reading “2092 – Vlogging”

Elayne likes to keep a lovely garden. I am really pleased that she does, because it is a project to be proud of, and I do like to see it. For as long as I can remember, I’ve appreciated nature, but retirement has changed the nature of that appreciation. One example of this is theContinue reading “2091 – Things of Interest”

A few posts ago, Actually, it was 2072 I talked about going to the library and researching an aspect of Portsmouths invovlement in the Civil War. It’s worth giving a little bit of a back story of the Portsmouth Papers. Started in the 1960’s as an attempt to revive interests in the history of theContinue reading “2090 – Portsmouth Papers”

First time I’ve done this, and I think it’s appropriate. This is a “Recruitment poster” for the group. We had our second session today, and I think i can say that it went resonably well. The thing though, is planning. I’ve never done this before. What I want to do is keep the members ofContinue reading “2089 – Creative Writing”

The office has been driving me up the wall. I hate to think what it has been doing to Elayne, and she doesn’t have to come in here unless it’s to get something off the printer. It’s not often she says something about it, but I see the look she gives me if we areContinue reading “2088 – It’s back!”