Author Archives: Bill

Stokes Road would appear to be a bit of an oddity. There are some shops which cause me to wonder how they survive. But, they make for a fascinating hours window shopping. There’s the shop which has a 28 inch television in a globe case, I’m not sure if that isn’t from the 1970’s alongContinue reading “914 – Stokes Road”

When I stand at the waterfront that are the Falklands Gardens, it is strange to think that if I had been stood there three hundred and seventy odd years before, I would have in the middle of the civil war. With the Parliamentarians building a platform from which to bombard Royalist Portsmouth, and other nefariousContinue reading “913 – Gosport”

The header picture is todays Gosporrt High Street, taken from just north of North Cross Street looking toward the ferry. There have been many times when I’ve walked down the street wondering what it would have been like in previous years. Gosport was a new town in the 1600’s There wouldn’t have been much outsideContinue reading “912 – The High Street”

Today’s walk took me through the grounds of the Explosion Museum. That’s where I spotted this rather spectacularly decorated lamp post. The museum is an interesting visit, giving an informative history of naval air power. We have been around the museum, but not today. Carrying on with the walk, took me through Clarence yard. LiterallyContinue reading “911 – Out for a walk”

I am sat at the keyboard, stuck as to what to write. I did write a paragraph about wanting to do some videos, and possibly putting them on YouTube, but I ended up deleting it as it sounded very pretentious, I didn’t like it. I’ve been harping on about doing videos for many months. LikeContinue reading “910 – YouTube”

I got my bus pass today. I thought it would be inteeresting to see where I could go practically in a day? When we were travelling to Oxfordshire last week, we passed Highclere Castle, the home (to me, and I suspect several million other people) of Downton Abbey. Can I get to Highclere on theContinue reading “909 – Bus Routes”

The ponds are empty. It happened over the weekend. Right in the middle of the bigger pond there is a puddle, it’s quite large so obviously there must still be something in there, for the last two mornings the heron has been there. I presume that it is the council that has been working onContinue reading “908 – The Cockle Ponds”

One of the people I follow on FaceBook, goes by the name of The Dorset Rambler. He posts every so often (not every day). He takes some lovely photos whilst out on his walk, and has the right kit to get some lovely pictures of local birds as well as sunsets. Now, I do haveContinue reading “907 – photographing birds”

I must have done the route that I follow on my morning walk a few hundred times. Nearly every road I walk along has some history. At the beginning of this blog, I intended to write more about the history and I have done to a limited extent. Part of my problem is that IContinue reading “906 – The Morning Walk”

We have just had a really lovely weekend at Heythrop park. It’s been on the cards for a few weeks. There are some things that want to comment upon; I phoned the hotel and asked about the charging points. I was confidently informed that they were Tesla chargers, and didn’t have type 2 sockets. IContinue reading “905 – 124/100”