Author Archives: Bill

The weather over the last couple of days has been glorious. Brilliant pretty much cloud free. We spent a bit of time working on the garden and the front of the house. The front has come up nicely. Not perfectly, but not bad. It’s two days now, where I had the opportunity to take aContinue reading “957 – I should have gone for a walk”

What a glorious day it has been. Barely a cloud in sky, brilliant sunshine and t-shirt weather. We spent a good part of the day in the garden both working and being very lazy.. Whilst we were being lazy, I watched the birds. I’d put the food on the table, and we took up residenceContinue reading “956 – Birds”

This is the Contentin. It’s the first time I’ve seen this one. Nearly every morning that I do my morning walk, and end up at the waterfront I end up seeing one of the Brittany Ferries. Regulars that I am quite familiar with are the Normandie and the Mon St Michel, they are the realContinue reading “955 – The Contentin”

What I would really like to do is to walk down Gosport’s High Street, but the key thing is – with a historian. Now this is the awkward bit, I’d like it to be someone quite well known, perhaps Prof. Alice Roberts (ok, not really a historian, but she is good), Lucy Worsley or SimonContinue reading “954 – A walk down the High Street.”

There are plenty of online services that will take an audio file and transcribe it. Most of them are paying, but there might be some that are fre, probably though, with limitations. I don’t want to pay. A good friend suggested using Siri on my iPhone to record a note. The mistake I made wasContinue reading “953 – Note Taking (again) (not)”

What I am after is a way of taking notes whilst I am out walking. Quite often I find myself in a poisition where I want to record an observation. It could be anything from something I’ve seen, a feeling I have, a comment made by somebody on the #Breakfastclub to which I want toContinue reading “952 – Taking Notes”

I’m really sorry for this but no time for a post today. We binge watched all the episodes on Netflix. Most entertaining.

Today wemade a decision that we would go to Southampton. Really, there are only two shops that I am interested in at West Quay, shopping Mall at the centre of town. That’s the Apple Store – and to be honest, there is little point of going there unless you are going to buy something. ThereContinue reading “950 – Bookshopping”

The picture has nothing to do with today’s post. Just to set a bit of context. The Met Office got the forecast right. Rain & high winds. I didn’t go for a walk this morning. It was to put it mildly, chucking it down. I wasn’t complaining. Sometimes it’s nice to go back to bed.Continue reading “949 – The Weather, follow up”

Misty tends to jump on the bed at about 5AM, demanding attention. That’s usually the first opportunity to test the weather, is she cold, or perhaps wet? Some times she is drenched. I have to confess that very occasionally, I hope it is raining because then I can go back to bed. If it isn’tContinue reading “948 – The Weather”