Author Archives: Bill

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”

All day yesterday, I had a post in my head that I was going to do, and then I went and forgot it. So that means the post counter having reached the stratospheric value of 76 has now been reset to one as of this post. The post had been in my mind and soContinue reading “937 – Dagnabbit, I messed the count up”

I’m wondering if my being awakened by the foghorns sometime between three and four accounted for my feeling really quite stressed. Only superfluous reasons for feeling that way. I did have a choice as to whether to stay in bed and stew in my feelings, or get up and go for a walk. If IContinue reading “936 – And the foghorns let rip…”

Clarence yard, in its heyday must have been a very interesting place. One of two victualling centres for the Royal Navy. The site contains a slaughter house (still called the Slaughterhouse) and the ovens for backing bread for all of the ships in dock. I heard a story about how small boats would collect breadContinue reading “935 – Clarence Yard”

Again, the picture bears no connection to tonight’s topic. I had a plan where I was going to prepare a meal and video it. Just to get some practice in, both in food preparation and videoing. It didn’t quite work out in the way I intended. I wasn’t able to get out for a lunchtimeContinue reading “934 – Cooking…Not”

Here are the magazines I subscribe to; I’ve been taking the first three magazines for a number of years now, and Dorset Life for just over one year. The things is, when I first subscribed, I would flick through the magazines, and read the odd article here and there. But then the lockdowns came. OnceContinue reading “933 – Magazines”

I have an audible account. If you aren’t familiar with that, they have a very large collection of audio books. But I also like proper paper books. It’s been quite a while, two possibly three years since I read a fiction book I’ve been going through a non-fiction phase. That doesn’t apply to audio booksContinue reading “932 – Science Fiction”

I don’t think I’ve done this before. Sat down and thought about the week ahead. I am hoping that this will give me an opportunity to think about what could occupy this space over the coming days. There’s always the chance that something interesting could crop up on one of the morning or lunchtime walks.Continue reading “931 – The week ahead”

Actually, the picture is from earlier this week. The Commodore Clipper, inbound passing the Spinnaker. It was a misty, drizzly morning hence the top of tower missing. Apart from Wednesday, when it was raining in the morning, it’s been quite a good week for walking. There have been three days when I haven’t been ableContinue reading “930 – Saturday”

I quite enjoyed putting together a sequence of three pictures to illustrate a railway story on project 365. It was a relatively easy story to illustrate. I would quite like to find another story to illustrate. I’m sure there are plenty around. I’m sorry, tonight’s post is going to be brief. I’ve left doing tonight’sContinue reading “929 – a short story”