Author Archives: Bill

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…”

Gosport is flat, very flat. It makes it good for cycling. It’s also good for walking – as you well know if you read me on a regular basis I walk the local area. As I walk around Gosport, I find things that interest me. Perhaps one of the biggest is history. Everywhere has itsContinue reading “649 – It’s where you live”

We spent a couple of hours working on the front of the house. It involved lopping some branched off a tree, and clearing up some bits growing out of the wall. In the past, I’ve talked about the kind of jobs I’m happy doing in the garden. Having finished that we had a bit ofContinue reading “648 – Out and About”

The header picture once again has nothing to do with the topic. This is a picture taken at low tide from the Haslar Marina Pier Wall. The rails and blocks you can see are the remains of the old chain ferries. It’s just an interesting picture. We had a day in London today. We droveContinue reading “647 – EV Charging – Again”

The picture has nothing to do with the topic, as is sometimes the case. Today, we celebrated a birthday. We did so by going into an escape room. I have done one of these before. I have to say that I was not enthused by the prospect. But, with hindsight as is usually the caseContinue reading “646 – Escape Rooms & stuff”