Author Archives: Bill

When we went to see the first Avatar film in 2009 we were absolutely blown away by the story, the imagery, and the quality of the 3D photography. It has remained until today by far the best 3D film that I have seen. I don’t know how many 3D films have been made since then,Continue reading “858 – Avatar”

On the left of the header picture is Rowner Church. The original church is 12th Century. Not the building we are looking at. In reality, only a small part of the church inside remains from the original. The Rowner / Alverstoke area has it’s own Mott and Bailey. This is a secure structure built onContinue reading “857 – The ages of Gosport”

This is the symbols my downfall at Christmas time, and Chocolate is it’s name. In this case Toblerone, but pretty much any chocolate really. There isn’t much I don’t like. People insist on buying it for me for Christmas and of course I can’t refuse it. That would be very rude of me. And ofContinue reading “856 – Fictional Chocolate”

The weather is with us all day, every day it affects us all. Many aspects of the weather are fairly easy to measure. It is possible to buy weather stations that measure different aspects and present that data to the internet. I am very likely to go back there. In the meantime, I am quiteContinue reading “855 – The Weather”

Would you notice if I re-used a photo that I had used before? I did a few posts ago and I didn’t notice myself until the next night when I wanted to use it again (must be a good picture). I’m not really talking the most recent episode, something from longer back. The thing is,Continue reading “854 – Would you notice If”

Would you notice if I re-used a photo that I had used before? I did a few posts ago and I didn’t notice myself until the next night when I wanted to use it again (must be a good picture). I’m not really talking the most recent episode, something from longer back. The thing is,Continue reading “854 – Would you notice If”

Today we visited Keydales in Horndean. I guess it’s a fairly typical garden centre. I didn’t see anything there that I wasn’t expecting. In general I find garden centres fairly boring. I acknowledge though that they usually have a nice restaurant that serves nice food. The other thing I like to look at is theContinue reading “853 – Garden Centres”

There are books and films that I really like. To the extent that there are some that I have re-read and watched several times. You would think wouldn’t you that once read, once seen that was it. But no. Even though I know what is going to happen, but I still very much enjoy revisiting.Continue reading “852 – Read, Watch, Repeat”

Today’s quite memorable for me in a trivial, but interesting way. I’ve now started reading Gilbert White’s book with its full title The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Modern versions of the book tends to drop the antiquities part of the book because it appears people are less interested in that aspect. I boughtContinue reading “851 – A Natural History of Selborne”

I am on my Christmas break. It’s quite nice, as I am now able to take a walk in to town at any time convenient to me. We bought Sausage Rolls and sat at the waterfront. No ships apart from the Gosport Ferry plying its usual route too and fro. The gulls were waiting toContinue reading “850 – Gulls waiting for food.”