Author Archives: Bill

I took this picture not realising how much it would appeal to me until I saw it on the iPad back at home. There’s something a bit ghostly about the way the top of the spinnaker is peeking out of the mist. I thought it looked really interesting. I talked about one of the newsgroupsContinue reading “947 – Photo of the week (so far)”

Three of the monthlies have arrived; RCTS, B&W Photography and Country walking , the frustration is I am reading We are Bellingcat, the story of open source intelligence, and I’d rather read that than the magazines, but the mags look really interesting. B&W photog has been dipping a little bit into history, showing a pictureContinue reading “946 – Magazines”

It is that first look out the window that does it. The clock ticks over to 0535. I’ve been watching it for the last five minutes, relishing the warmth and comfort of bed, with no likely hood of going back to sleep, I’ve been awake the last hour or sometimes more. It’s time to getContinue reading “945 – Out for a walk”

It just goes to show how easy it is to lose track of time. I was surprised to discover that it was two weeks ago that I wrote the similarly named piece, where I mapped out the posts for the week ahead. The trick is to come up with original posts. Unless something happens duringContinue reading “944 – The week ahead”

I apologise about last nights post. We’d sat down and had watched a couple of episodes of Bones, the latest boxset we are binging. The last episode we watched I missed 90% because I was sleeping. We were in bed quite early, and I managed to put together last nights post. Today, I was determinedContinue reading “943 – Chichester”

The only reason you are doing this post is to keep the count going. Sorry, goodnight.

I went out for my usual lunchtime walk. It’s usually just over two miles. I normally end up on the Haslar Marina Pier Wall. I saw an unusual view as I approached the ferry terminal. To reach the ferry terminal would involve walking up a slope. I don’t think I have ever seen the rampContinue reading “941 – The Tide”

Does it seem macabre that I wanted to get as close as I could to the place where in 1963, at the age of six I found my dad, laying on the ground, either dying or dead? I couldn’t to the exact spot of course. Not only would there be no markers, but the placeContinue reading “940 – Memory Lane”

There’s this thing. I am curious about the Neolithic period and megalithic sites. I bought a book about the celts. It’ll be a reference book which I will dip into. this book was updated as recently as 2019. I am also curious about the Saxons, and have bought a book about the Saxon chronicles. IContinue reading “939 – Two Books”

Rascal came to us in 2003, a little black bundle of fur, along with his two brothers Droplet and Tinsel. Elayne said “you can’t call him Rascal’” I said “why not” Rascal he became. Today, Rascal left us. At the end he was a frail shadow of his earlier self but the love we hadContinue reading “938 – Rascal”