Author Archives: Bill

After a fine breakfast in the Buttery, Elayne went off and did her Christmas shopping with her sisters. Bill here, took the cowards way out by going and looking for historic and interesting Chichester. He found a bit of each. Knowing that there was a high certainty that it would start raining around midday, IContinue reading “Chichester”

If you are a licensed amateur radio operator, I hope this evenings post will be of interest. If you aren’t and persist in reading, then I am sorry for the jargon – perhaps you might become interested in joining the community of hams? Fairly regularly, I run the Isle Of Wight Radio Society’s (IoWRS) ThursdayContinue reading “Thursday, 7 Nov 19 – TNN”

Over the last couple of years through going to weight watchers and becoming a bit more active I have shed around 65lbs. I’ve become a bit stuck these last couple of weeks and this last monday, I stayed for the chat. It’s no longer Weight Watchers, it’s WW, they’ve become a whole body thing, whichContinue reading “Wednesday – WW”

I think I’ve only put the date in the title, because it is a special day. The story of Guy Fawkes is well known, and I enjoy a firework display as much as anybody. But being a person who is owned by cats, tonight always causes me some distress. If only we could talk toContinue reading “Tuesday 5 Nov 19”

Everybody hates Mondays – don’t they?  Well I’m not sure that I do. It’s pretty much like any other day really, except you can bring back memories of the weekend.  I’m hoping for you, they are good memories.  Somebody said to me on Saturday “isn’t the weather dreadful”? To which I replied “well…as long asContinue reading “Monday”

After yesterday’s wind and rain, todays blue skies have been a delightful change. I had to get out for a walk. Here’s most of my route today; It was lovely. We have quite a few blue plaques around the town. There’s one that I had seen not long after moving here, but it had disappeared,Continue reading “Sunday Morning Stroll”

I’d written a piece about the weather today, or rather my experiences out and about in it – mainly revolving around how good is my wet weather jacket, and how very comfortable the new HoodyFleece, purchased by the Station Manager has been. Then at the end, I wanted to upload a two versions of theContinue reading “Saturday – Weather”

I like walking. Not too far mind you. For example, I wouldn’t go on a 30 mile hike. But, I would consider a 5 or 6 mile walk quite happily, I probably push it to 10 miles with the right shoes. Mon – Fri, I get up at 0540 and go for a walk, aboutContinue reading “Walking”

Inspiring tonight’s post was tonight’s trip out to the Clanfield observatory. Organised by my amateur radio club. Clanfield is an amateur facility with some amazing resources, doing serious and useful research. The interest in Astronomy has always stayed with me. Their are few things more beautiful than the night sky and even a simple pairContinue reading “Astronomy”

The mornings are getting increasingly darker. That is a truism even though the clocks went back a couple of nights back. It’s really nice to have Dawn’s light with me when I go morning walks, even though this is only temporary. I estimate that within 10-15 days, I will be chasing the Dawn again, andContinue reading “Changing the clocks”