Author Archives: Bill

I’ve learned that I can walk through the High Street at lunchtime and resist my brain cajoling me to buy food that I don’t need. today for example, I resisted the pleadings for pasties and chocolate, even though I did go in to Morrisons, I bought only what I intended to, and resisted the shoutingsContinue reading “625 – Fair Weather Friends”

I have a need to write about an experience that I had this morning that made me feel very awkward. It’s a bit sensitive, so please bear with me. Unless something stops me, like rain, I always go for my morning walk, leaving the house at around 0550. I usually follow the same route. ThatContinue reading “624 – That was awkward!”

This building was until recently part of Gosport’s Discovery Centre or library. It used to be the Grammar School. As part of the discovery centre, it held two primary sets of documents; the military, particularly naval history of the town and area, and a very big genealogy section. It is a surprisingly big building andContinue reading “623 – A New Gallery & Museum”

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?”