Author Archives: Bill

I went to Wiltshire today, I had to go for a work related meeting. They gave me a hire car for the trip, a BMW 318i automatic. I’ve never driven a BMW before, it was an interesting experience, it’s also the first time that I’ve driven a petrol car since May, just about 6 months.Continue reading “461 Roadtrip”

This is the Columbian Star Reefer going out this morning. If you embiggen (as Homer would say) the picture it will be just ever so slightly blurred. Sorry about that, slow shutter speed. Sometimes a pressure builds up. I have four magazines delivered a month, they generally come once a week, it can take meContinue reading “460 Books”

I went out for a walk today. I was heading along South Street near the Asda turn heading toward the waterfront. I use happened to look up, the back yard of this particular house had a long brick wall. I reckon there were at least a dozen pigeons on the wall. No only that, thereContinue reading “459 Pigeons”

I went to Homebase today. They had a piece of MDF (they had several). It was just the wrong size. I wanted 1.25×0.5 metres – not a big piece. They had these pieces 1.2×0.61. Just slightly too short, and slightly too wide. Now, the width I can cope with. The length is a bit ofContinue reading “458 Model Railways – Again”

I haven’t been very i,pressed with my photography this week. Plenty of nighttime shots of the water and the cockle ponds, and some buildings, slightly misty a bit rainy, all in all very samey. I have to be honest and say that my writing hasn’t been much better, some of the pieces have been almostContinue reading “457 A week of writing”

OK, sorry, I need to get this out of my system – playing with colour selection in Snapseed, I thought that the sign of the The Star would be a good subject for this. The original is below. Which do you prefer? We have had a few nights where it has been sufficiently cold thatContinue reading “456 Gosport Weather”

OK, I’ve used the two photographs I’m going to include quite recently in blog posts, they are only here for illustration. The brief focus of tonight’s post is the application I used to create these pictures. That application is Snapseed. It is available on both iphone and Android, and it is completely free and notContinue reading “455 SnapSeed”

It appears that the development of the waterfront is progressing. There is no argument that the bus stop is a 1960’s or 70’s eyesore (well, I think it’s 1960’s or 70’s. It definitely needs to be replaced. The bus stop is going to be moved to where the taxi rank is, busses will pull inContinue reading “454 The Waterfront”

The harbour was surprisingly busy this morning. There were two small fishing vessels heading out with one coming in. The Pilot vessel was behaving unusually. It was loitering and cam to a stop towards the harbour entrance. I can only think this was to allow the Amourique to come in. Once the Brittany Ferry hasContinue reading “453 Village Life”

We’ve had a busy weekend, doing things around the house. There was an opportunity today when I could have gone for a walk but I decided not to. It’s the first time in quite a long time since I have deliberately avoided going for a walk. But I don’t really feel guilty about it. IfContinue reading “452 Not walking”