Author Archives: Bill

Of All of the shop closures along Stokes Road perhaps one that I feel saddest about is the tailor Kong Cheung. I have no idea why he closed, It could be anything. I really can’t tell you why I was sorry to see it go, I never used it. Whenever I go in to townContinue reading “771 – Gosport (Again)”

On Friday I had my Covid Booster at 1450 and my flu jab at 1630. On Saturday, I go up Saturday and felt rough, very fatigued and I ached whenever I moved. I went outside once, otherwise I spent nearly all day sat in the lounge. All that meant that I didn’t go to theContinue reading “770 – Gosport”

I have just done a quick check of all 768 previous posts and there are four where I mention this thing called locality, and I think it is No. 302, and even there I don’t really talk about it much. It all started one misty morning in May 2015. All of Cunard’s queens were departingContinue reading “769 – Locality & Hashtags”

I think I have spent about an hour sat here looking at the screen, thinking about writing about writing. I enjoyed the time at Pagham we had a good trip especially the photo gallery at Petworth. I’d like to go to more exhibitions like that. I’d also like to go to more art exhibitions asContinue reading “768 – Writing”

Today, 22 September 2022, is the first days of autumn. Tomorrow morning at 0203 the night and the day, will be the same length, from tomorrow onwards, until the spring equinox, nights will be longer than days. Another thing that changes is the weather. Moving into Autumn means cold fresh mornings – quite nice, IContinue reading “767 – Seasons”

Conkers, it appears, are an-anti-arachnid device. Put one in each corner of the room – no spiders. It does seem to work. We’ve had no spiders in doors. Unless you don’t replace them each year. They dry out and you lose the effectiveness, over the last month or so we have had a couple ofContinue reading “766 – Conkers”

For the first time in ten days, I did my usual morning walk. I hadn’t expected a lot of change, and to be honest there hasn’t been much. The flower beds opposite the railway station have been prepared for winter, I wonder if there is anything they can put in to bring some winter colour?Continue reading “765 – A Gosport Walk”

30 January 1965 Super Car was made between 1961 & 1962. Fireball XL5 was first shown after 1962. Both of these series were (are) iconic to me, I can remember watching them as a young child. It’s worth noting that Thunderbirds wasn’t broadcast until September 1965, nine months after the header date, so what isContinue reading “764 – Queen Elizabeth & Winston Churchill”

A seaside stall selling the equipment necessary for some extensive sandcastle construction. Trouble is, the beach in the area is not sandy. Full of shingle. Now, I don’t know a lot about shingle, but with a little bit of digging (pun probably intended) I found out that there is a difference between shingle and gravel;Continue reading “763 – Proof Reading by the seaside”

No, No, not the stuff, oh dear, nor being one, just the normal garden variety that gets cut every weekend. We’ve been through a fairly long session of dry weather, not long enough to be officially be classed as a drought, but long enough to seriously parch the grass. Our lawn was looking a hayContinue reading “762 – Grass”