Author Archives: Bill

In November, we had an unseasonably warm spell. I’m not sure if our central heating fired at all. Apparently it was warm air coming up from Africa. Why would that happen? Anyhow. We are almost back to normal. The only thing missing is the snow. Yesterday in particular it was really cold. I wrote inContinue reading “836 – It’s cold!”

It’s a long walk from the shoreside of the Isle of Wight pier to the ferry terminal at the end, and the weather was bitterly cold. But that walk was well worth the effort. I had made the journey across the Solent to Ryde to be picked up by Jan and John and taken toContinue reading “835 – The Isle of Wight”

You get to the end of the day, and you look back and you realise that it is not just a case of writers block, but a day of such utter inconsequence that there is absolutely nothing inspiring to write about. Ok, I did go for a bit of a walk, but that was onlyContinue reading “834 – What happens when…”

You can tell it is getting close to Christmas. For a start you can walk down the street and fine groups of people singing carols. Churches with their doors open offering coffee and mince pies. The smell of mulled whine wafting down the street and Storm Troopers boogying on down to the carol singers. StokesContinue reading “833 – A Street Scene”

Don’t ask me to go all philosophical on you, because I can’t. I think somewhere in the last 800 odd posts I’ve written about this. Probably about Sophie’s World – an intriguing book about a young girl’s exploration of the topic. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but I’d really recommend reading the book.Continue reading “832 – Philosophy”

Pretty much every day since the beginnings of lockdown in 2020 (March I think it was, so we aren’t that far off three years ago – unreal anyhow, back to facebook) I have been doing a post on Facebook. It would be a bit of a daily diary, what I saw on my morning walk,Continue reading “832 – Facebook”

Here’s another post that I’ve left too late in the evening to do a good post . I usually get stuck at this time of day and my brain goes blank. Today though, I at least had a partial idea. I’d reached the point in the Hampshire history book where Gosport is “born” Even toContinue reading “831 – a bit of history”

I went for a walk today. Not too far, only a couple of miles just down to the waterfront. It was a bit rainy. Not very rainy, but enough that I was grateful for my proper raincoat. There were a couple of things that kind of got me the first how busy was the highContinue reading “830 – out for a walk”

There are three (possibly soon to be four) books, of which I am reading one page a day (don’t ask why, I couldn’t explain, I just am). They are; Tonights focus (for a little while at least) isgoing to be on Gilbert Whites Journals. On the his journal for the 26th of February 1769, GilbertContinue reading “829 – Light Pollution”

My brain can be incredibly stubborn sometimes. Every so often it lets me have glimpse, the merest glance of an idea, fleeting, popping in to my head and then hailing off to the left or the right laughing maniacally. The idea? Well for a book of course, what else do I obsess about? It’s notContinue reading “828 – That book, still there”