Author Archives: Bill

Well, not for a walk anyway. I could have got up at my normal time, 0535. I could have got up at 0300 because I was awake, and couldn’t get back to sleep. In the end, didn’t bother. We went to see the next chapter in Tom Cruise’s Top Gun series – Maverick. I haveContinue reading “659 – I didn’t get out today”

It has been a lovely day. Bright sun, little wind, some lovely clouds in the sky. The wind did pick up up a little but I was still very comfortable in t-shirt on the lunch time walk. The sun was glorious first thing, no wind at all and comfortably mild, very little, practically no cloud.Continue reading “658 – A Glorious Day”

When I was giving my weather report to the #Breakfastclub it was very noticeable that was not a breath of wind. My handheld anemometer showed 0 knots regardless of the direction it was facing. I carried on to the cockle ponds. At the ponds, the lack of wind gave a surface that apart from theContinue reading “657 – A “Wow” Moment”

Either this ship is just berthed next to the platform that is dealing with the old Isle of Wight Ferry, or it is berthed there because the old ferry is being worked upon. To what end, I don’t know. The old ferry has been there for years. I would imagine that at some point itContinue reading “656 – Toothache Vlogging”

In the 1800’s and the 20th century, this building housed one of the Royal Navy’s victualling centre. At its height, the bakery here (under the arches towards the middle of the picture) will produce 10,000 loaves of bread per day which were ferried out to the ships berthed in the harbour, and at anchor outContinue reading “655 – Bread & Toothache”

One of the Pilot Cutters coming in to harbour. I have had a couple of goes at producing a vlog. Apart from the for, and the complexity of the production process, I’m having a problem delivering the message to camera. It is the actual talking to camera that I have problems with. But, I don’tContinue reading “654 – Talking to Camera”

I’m drawn to this photograph because of the fresh & straightness of the contrail heading almost directly along the high street. I suppose in some remote kind of way it is a street encounter and so germane to today’s post. Whilst I am on post 653, and therefore rapidly approaching the two year point ofContinue reading “653 – Street Encounters”

On my walk this morning, I saw that someone had been liberally sprinkling Liquorice alsorts around – don’t worry, I didn’t pick it up, but what a waste. Strangely, that’s the only time that I eat liquorice with all the other bits wrapped around it. Very nice. Liquorice on its own – yuck. These lastContinue reading “652 – Not much Happening”

I don’t really hate pigeons. But I am now engaged in a battle with them. I had put one band of re-useable cable ties around the bird table quite a while ago, and for a time it did flummox the pigeons – didn’t stop the squirrels or the smaller birds. The pigeons are now completelyContinue reading “651 – Affection For Objects…But not Pigeons”

If you were visiting Gosport how would you arrive? Even if you were to fly in to Daedalus at Lee-on-the-Solent, you would still have to come to the Gosport town centre either on foot, or along the road. But you could also arrive by ferry from Portsmouth. So, once here what should you visit? Well,Continue reading “650 – If you were visiting Gosport…”