Author Archives: Bill

It was a grey morning, rain was threatening, there was a bit of a breeze blowing. The tide was low, the clouds were low and heavy, it felt quite oppressive, it felt gloomy. I did my weather report as usual from the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall, a police launch swung by asContinue reading “274/366 Gloomy!”

Yesterday I wrote about the desire to have a thread running through my writing. As i suggested, History is a huge component of Gosport, my words were “absolutely stuffed” and that is the case. The picture at the head of todays post is that of Gosport’s Victorian rail station. One thing that you won’t seeContinue reading “273/366 A history of Gosport”

Please don’t get me wrong. I am not at all dissatisfied with my writing. It’s not perfect I know, but I am pleased with what I have done so far. The reason I’m saying this is because I have been thinking about how I can introduce a narrative thread through the posts. Now, what isContinue reading “272/366 The Week of the Story”

This is the Viking Venus. She came in to Portsmouth this morning, escorted by two tugs. The tugs always impress me. One is going in reverse ahead of the ship and one astern. A very skilful job, and I would guess not without its dangers. But, it was nice to see the ship come in.Continue reading “271/366 Reading Habits”

I don’t like posting negative pictures. But, sometimes you see acts of such outrageous stupidity that by whatever means, you have to say something. It wasn’t just tipped over the side of the cockle pond, this is a few feet out, so it has been thrown. (Added later) – I should say that I tweetedContinue reading “270/366 What is going on?”

The (I suppose you could call it an) Obelisk is one of two at the ferry end of Gosport High Street, hence, these are the Ferry Gates. Almost at the other end of the High Street are two more, these are called the Clarence Gate. Their location next to Clarence Road Sid presumably not aContinue reading “269/366 A Busy Day”

The almost is that I went for a tun on Monday, it was a bank holiday, so I went early, and ended up not going for a walk. Apart from that, I went for a walk every morning this week. Sometimes it can be a struggle to get up. But for some reason it hasContinue reading “268/366 A week of walking (almost)”

The last few days the weather has been a bit rough, I’m not going to describe it as bad because I like rough weather; I like the wind and the rain, and the snow (not that we’ve had any and only if I don’t have to go out in it – especially driving) and I’mContinue reading “267/366 This Mornings’ walk”

Out for my walk this morning. I arrived at the Cockle Ponds to be confronted by this. I was outraged. I simply do not understand why someone would do this, or how they could derive pleasure from this. The second I saw this I sent a picture and a tweet to Gosport Street Scene. IContinue reading “266/366 Oh Dear!”

The water in the cockle pond was so rough this morning that I wasn’t able to see any of the jelly fish, or anything else. Hopefully, I will tomorrow. Sorry – this is about me again. I have interests, as much as I avoid writing about them here, I won’t deny my interest in politicsContinue reading “265/366 Obsessions or Interests?”