Author Archives: Bill

The Isle of Wight Radio Society, Thursday Night me runs from 2000-2100 every Thursday. Evening, This is an activity I do, because I enjoy it. Hosted through GB3IW. We either try and talk about a different activity every week, sometimes we have topic, or we have “natter night” where topics can a bit of aContinue reading “IoWRS TNN”

I think I’m what they call a beginner or starter I like starting things, but then I have difficulty continuing or finishing. To give you some examples; We bought a book, do the South Downs way in 20 walks. We’ll do that we both said. One walk a month, it’ll take time, but it’ll beContinue reading “Locality – I am going to…”

Many years ago, a dear friend and I explored the possibility of becoming licensed radio hams, we were in our teens. It worked out that we couldn’t afford it, so it got shelved. Leap forward to 2016 we had now lived in Gosport for two years. I decided that I wanted a wireless scanner andContinue reading “Locality”

After our experience with Antony Gormley, we went across London for our appointments with Shard. Taking two lifts to get us to the observation deck at 801 feet. Being prepared, I had binoculars with me so we could enjoy the wonderful views of London. We enjoyed a glass of champagne, as you do and IContinue reading “The Shard”

Saturday and Sunday were days of contrasts. I think I’ll have to split this over a couple of posts. Saturday Morning The train journey up to london went very well, except I disrupted Elaynes plans for the tube journey from Waterloo to Piccadilly, from where we were going to walk down to the Royal AcademyContinue reading “The Weekend & Monday”

Rascal is giving me that “you are interrupting my eating” look. Misty is less worried about eating, more worried in case the badgers are in the garden. Betty just wants to play. Deep frustration. I was typing this entry at about 8AM when I did something, I don’t know what, and about 4 paragraphs ofContinue reading “Feel Good Fridays”

This is going to be a short post as time is running out on me this morning. The walk went well, the #Breakfastclub was lively with a variety of topics, including running a Ferrari on the Isle of Wight and the various storm fronts that are about. The frustration was seeing what looked like wasContinue reading “Minor crises and frustrations”

Betty Misty and Rascal are behaving themselves mostly, except one of them we are pretty sure it’s Misty keeps leaving little deposits around. Frustrating we don’t seem to be able to stop her. The star was there again, no surprise. But, was a proper clear sky, or another break in the clouds? As I usuallyContinue reading “Wednesday, 02 Oct 19 – First real signs of Autumn?”

I always try and do my posts before I go to work. Sometimes, as was the case this morning, I run out of time which means you either get an evening post or, unfortunately, none at all. Here is today’s effort; Having stuck my head out the back door, I couldn’t make my mind upContinue reading “Tuesday, 01 Oct 19”

We are moving to that time of year, when my morning walks will mostly be in darkness. My problem with that is my picture become very. “Samey” and therefore boring, and I don’t want to bore you. This morning though, almost as soon as I stepped out of the door, I knew that the skyContinue reading “Monday, 30 Sep 19”