Author Archives: Bill

A couple of pictures for you today. The weather looked absolutely lovely this morning so we decided we would go for a little bike ride, and a walk. One of our favourite destinations is Stokes Bay. We set off and realised that although the sun was bright, the air was still quite chilly. We wereContinue reading “262/366 A Bike Ride”

There were thousands of jelly fish in the cockle pond this morning, a swarm of them. I’ve written a lot about them. I’ve also written a lot about the photographs I’ve taken this week. I’ve also written a lot about the birds. I’ve enjoyed writing about them. But I don’t think the writing has beenContinue reading “261/366 A week of Writing”

What I don’t want to do is just describe the weather. When I go out for my walk in the morning, I can measure windspeed, temperature (ambient, dew point, chill), pressure (inches of mercury or HectoPascals or millibars (I prefer millibars)) I have a hydrometer which measures relative humidity It’s a broken sensor, it neverContinue reading “260/366 The Weather”

Tonight’s piece is supposed to be about photography. Over the last few days I’’ve spent a fair bit of time talking about my photos. The photo at the top is of an old variant of the Gosport Ferry. There have been a couple of times over the last few months when the tide has beenContinue reading “259/366 Photography”

The thing is, I don’t feel able to say that today, I have taken some photo’s that I really like. I have a dilemma, I want to post them all, but I want to do an end of week photo review. But, if I don’t post them I can’t review them. I had to cropContinue reading “258/366 Photo’s”

I am reading a book that I’ve wanted to read for quite a long time. I’ve hunted for it several times and then a couple of weeks ago whilst browsing Amazon, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written by The Venerable Bede in the year 735. I can no more explain to you whyContinue reading “257/366 Book of the Week”

I don’t think that I should be rewarded for going out on the walks. But, sometimes things happen, and I think of it as a reward. I won’t deny that one of the main reasons I went out for a walk today was to visit my Jelly Fish in the Cockle Ponds. I wanted toContinue reading “256/366 The rewards of a walk”

This is one of several pictures I’ve taken this week that really appeals to me. The picture was taken at the Cockle Ponds on one of my morning walks. It is a favourite picture because the reflection of the tree is almost perfect, not quite but good enough. The frustrating thing is that I couldn’tContinue reading “255/366 Favourite Pictures”

Don’t worry, I am only going to beat myself up about missing a night a little bit. There are two really annoying things about this; the fact I did it and a counter. Until that day the counter has been nicely ticking along. The next day it had reset. Going from 250 to 1. TheContinue reading “254/366 What a week.”

We have this cup holder. It’s been causing me problems. Why is that? You might unreasonably ask. Well, our cups tend to come in pairs. There are three hooks at each level. It just doesn’t work. I had thoughts of keeping any pairs off the stand. That doesn’t work, you pretty much always end upContinue reading “253/366 The Feng Shui of the cup holder”