Author Archives: Bill

This is just a bit of wood floating in the cockle ponds. The colour of the piece and the water just really appeal to me. Some aspects of this post will become a regular occurrence. I got on the scales yesterday morning. I weighed 125.5 kg. This is way too heavy. This time two yearsContinue reading “622 – It’s weighing me down”

On the concourse at Waterloo the 1856 to Portsmouth Harbour didn’t look busy. I join the platform and start walking down the train. It’s 1847, so I have plenty of time. What I’m looking for is a double seat on its own. There are none in the first carriage, the second or the third. It’sContinue reading “621 – Train Trip”

Looks a bit of a mess really doesn’t it? But it’s intriguingly deliberate, called squaring the block, at the corner of these two streets in the Holborn area of London. Another brief blog entry I’m afraid, it’s late and I’m tired. That is what has driven the short entries these last couple of days andContinue reading “620 – Friends and weird sculptures”

January 18, 2020 – That was the last time I was in London. I had to go yesterday, I was on a bit of a mission. The journey up via train was the firs time I had been on a train. More than two years since I last visited the capital. I took the opportunityContinue reading “619 – London”

Just a very quick & short post today, I don’t want to lose the sequence. I went on a bit of a trip across the water. It gave me an opportunity to grasp a picture of The Cumbrian Fisher from the seaward side. Sorry it’s a bit short. More tomorrow.

I went for my usual lunchtime walk today. I’ve taken to going along the high street to the waterfront. It’s partly because I want to see the high street, just to see what is going on. but, I was very struck today by a feeling as I reached the Ferry terminal. There was a hazyContinue reading “617 – A seaside town”

In yesterday’s post I wrote that the road works happening on North & South Cross Streets that cross the high street, and are part of the pedestrian area. I said that I would try and find out what is going on. I spoke to the workers today. They confirmed that this was related to theContinue reading “616 – What’s happening?”

Don’t worry, there’s no crisis. Just me doing a little bit of introspection on the purpose of the blog. I watched a video about photography earlier on this evening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurgXdSOix4 It kind of reinforced something that I learned a few weeks ago, whether it is in regards to getting out and shooting my vlog, orContinue reading “615 – What? Why?”

I went out for a short walk today. I did think of doing a slightly longer one than I ended up doing; down to Gilkicker and back up via the sea wall. Instead I walked all around the Cockle Ponds. The Jelly fish are doing well, and I am seeing some that are three orContinue reading “614 – A walk through Town”

OK, it’s a Bumble Bee in the picture. I’ve tried to take a picture of a hover fly just as it passes my I phone, Oh I caught it, but it’s just a black fuzzy blob.. You can’t tell what it is, but I know. I suggested to Elayne that we should do more toContinue reading “613 – Hover Flies & other insects”