Author Archives: Bill

Avenue 141 is a bit of a special restaurant. An annex of Fareham College, it is run entirely by the students who are on various courses. Chefs, waiting staff, managers. There are usually three or four choices on the menu for starters, mains and desserts. I had halloumi with salad, followed by steak with theContinue reading “928 – A meal out.”

Elayne had gone out for a meal with friends. I had watched an episode of The Orville, and had started thinking about tonight’s blog. I went and looked at what I had written last night about want to vlog and “just doing it” I was thinking about the setup. Would I want to use multipleContinue reading “927 – I almost did it.”

I have this thing say, for example, Vlogging that I would really like to do. So, I rush about making sure that I have everything I need to produce a vlog of actually quite good quality. There are three fairly major problems. I had this thing about speaking and videoing in public, actually getting outContinue reading “926 – I keep returning to a theme”

The day started with a dead badger. As soon as I saw the pathetic looking heap in the middle of the road as I left the house I knew what it was. With a degree of trepidation, I took closer look firstly confirming that it was badger that was deceased, and there was no bloodContinue reading “925 – That was the day that was”

What we thought would be quite nice was to take lunch over to Titchfield Haven, the nature reserve just a little way along the coast from Lee-on-The-Solent. We prepared our tuna mayo rolls, a piece of fruit and a drink, took books and magazines and were prepared for an afternoons relaxation. We like to takeContinue reading “924 – The Solent Way”

This morning I went over to Portsmouth using the Gosport ferry. I have to admit that the whole process is very smooth. I wanted to purchase a multi-journey becasue each journey is cheaper. The ticket office was closed, presumably becasue I was too early. Not to worry, the machines were working, do they dispense multi-journeyContinue reading “923 – Crossing the water”

Several years ago, well before Covid I did a course at the local college. In fact I quite enjoyed the course, so I did it twice. It was a course on creative writing. The teacher was a local author June Hampson. She was very good and supportive, and was quite clear that her goal wasContinue reading “922 – Creative Writing”

On this mornings post on Facebook, it tried a bit harder to write something a little less prosaic than I normally do. For example instead of say the there were lovely colours in the morning sky, I wrote something along the lines of the sky brightened to the east, the muted grey on the horizonContinue reading “921 – writing”

There are somethings that are really quite cathartic. For me it can be as simple as cutting the grass, shredding or organising a book shelf. All of a sudden, I am to be given almost half of one of our bookshelves. I have more than enough books to fill it. It is though, more thanContinue reading “920 – Bookshelves”

It was a cold start to the day. I have to confess that I didn’t really want to get up. As usual though I’m glad I did. There was a northerly breeze with a real bite to it. Luckily my headphones cover my ears, so they don’t suffer. The high street was even more quietContinue reading “919 – today’s walks”