Author Archives: Bill

Two pictures for you today; The plaque is on the upright between the green window and the archway. Not far from Nelson’s Bar, just a little way down the High street is Beamister’s Lane. Here at Former The Star Inn, now Nelsons Bar, The pressgangs would sit and watch the revellers. You can imagine themContinue reading “526 – The Star Inn”

Have a look at this link; https://bit.ly/PH_Chart I only found it tonight, it is an absolutely brilliant online seachart. I’ve been trying to find out about this pillar at the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall. Turns out it is Portsmouth harbour Navigation Mark GQ. As you can see from the chart there areContinue reading “525 – Locality”

It’s nearly 7PM and we have to pop out for five minutes. I look up. There’s a cloud in the sky, it’s a cloud I’ve seen before. It’s kind of fuzzy, not very well defined and has a kind of fluffy character to it. What does the cloud mean? Well, somewhere quite close is IContinue reading “524 – Writers Block (May change this)”

When I’ve been giving my weather report to the #Breakfastclub I usually include the pressure. My handheld anemometer gives pressure in inches of mercury and in HectoPascales (hPa). Average pressure is around 1013 hPa or 29.92 inches. The hPa scale is an SI (System International) and luckily the hPa scale is identical to the millibarContinue reading “523 – Morning Light”

It’s reported that December 2021 was one of the poorest on record for sunshine. Apparently, we received just under 27 hours from that fusion furnace, whereas the average is up near 40 hours. I have memories of it being a very grey month. This morning started off grey, and I wasn’t able to get outContinue reading “522 Sun-Day”

We went towards the cockle ponds, as we were walking along the side of the pond, we looked down, the water was surprisingly clear easy to see the bottom. Sadly, the first thing we saw was a dead crab. As we walked. Along the side of the pond, it was really disappointing to see theContinue reading “521 Out for a walk”

Last week I wrote a piece about being dissatisfied about my writing. I still am, but I can’t help wondering if I have latched on to one little thing. There have been a couple of times this week where I have written something on FaceBook about my morning walks where I have been fairly relaxedContinue reading “520 More Writing”

I think these are Brent Geese. They were on Forton Lake yesterday as I did my walk up to the Millennium Bridge. I heard them before I got near the bridge. They weren’t raucous like the Canadian Geese can be, it was quite a gentle quiet conversation that was going on. It appears that theirContinue reading “519 Geese”

Today, you get two pictures up front. I knew that the plaque for The Thornton Theatre was here. What I don’t think I have done so before is stand back and look at the building to which the plaque is attached. When I took the picture of the plaque this morning I was thinking aboutContinue reading “518 – Blue Plaque No. 2 – Thornton Theatre”

I wanted to do my Gosport walk in a defined order, but it’s not working out like that. Having done four points in the walk, I am remembering them as I go. I think tomorrow is going to be another Blue Plaque day. There are several along the high street, I’ll just go with theContinue reading “517 – Doing History in Gosport”