Author Archives: Bill

I think that the urge to write is as strong today, as it was when I started the 366 project, and here we are two months beyond the conclusion of that project, and one thing I was quite clear about was my desire to continue to write after its conclusion. I’ve done that through thisContinue reading “431 Writing”

Heavy clouds to the south, clouds but lighter to the north. It rained briefly, although stopped further water from the sky is promised. We’ve just had breakfast, and now we are deciding what to do. I was worried that there were no birds, but all of a sudden there was a flurry of activity onContinue reading “430 Saturday Morning”

A ship carrying refrigerated containers is called a Reefer. Such a ship is the Duncan Island, at about 180m in length not a huge container ship, but one which was an appropriate size for coming in to the harbour. The tide was well up, with the high level literally only a few minutes away. TheContinue reading “429 The Duncan Island”

The weather has been pretty consistent this week. With some changes to the cloud, and starting off quite cold and warming up toward today, now what’s it going to be like tomorrow? The major frustration this week has been the tripod strap. I really need to do something about this. Now, the frustration is thatContinue reading “428 Thursday”

My initial thought was to do a quite heavy crop on this picture, but then when I really looked at it, I saw what appears to be almost a feeling of motion toward the centre of the frame. How about this one; Here’s the Normandie coming in through the Portsmouth Harbour entrance. I think theContinue reading “427 Winter Photography”

I’m sat in my comfy chair, waiting for the next episode of Spooks to start, when Elayne drops some chocolate coins into my lap. The left over of a Women’s Institute Christmas preparation. “Don’t eat them all in one go” she says, Hah! There’s this thing about chocolate that makes it completely addictive. As longContinue reading “426 Chocolate Waterfront”

This is looking to the west at about 0645. There’s something about the light that appeals to me. I haven’t spoken about the books that I’m reading at the moment, I have two on the go; the book about village life I tend to read at breakfast, the book about portsmouth, and the book byContinue reading “425 Books”

Yesterday, we spent most of the day in the garden getting it ready for winter. We haven’t finished, and will probably give it another good going next weekend. Still even though I did a quick walk in to town to get lunch from Greggs (yes, we were a bit naughty) which is only about aContinue reading “424 Sunday”

I know that the title is a bit strange, I’ll explain; In 2016 I became a licensed radio ham. If you are licensed, you’ll know how to look me up, my callsign was M6BBB, it’s still registered to me, I’m now an intermediate. This is important, because being a radio ham has introduced me toContinue reading “423 The Station Manager says 73”

I think the Cockle ponds were the smoothest I’d seen them for a long while. There have been a couple of times over the last week or so, when the time has come to write and I really couldn’t think of anything. That’s why you’ve ended up with either a shorter than normal or somethingContinue reading “422 Writing the Week”