Author Archives: Bill

I want to continue the item about books briefly. This time, focussing on non-fiction. The quantity of books that you own is a subjective number – do you own a lot of books? Relative to any library, no I don’t. But we do have a number. Enough to fill several 9- shelved bookcases. Why doContinue reading “Sunday”

I like books. Fiction and non-fiction. I guess if there is a genre that I tend to gravitate towards it’s science fiction. In particular, I like; Larry Niven, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, E E Doc Smith, James Blish, Ian M Banks, Gordon R. Dickson. Larry Nivens tales of known spaces are brilliant, including novlesContinue reading “Books”

You may have noticed (or perhaps not, seeing as I don’t have quite as many blog readers as somebody who’s famous) that I have been trying to do a post a day asince starting this work. Yesterday was one of a couple of times when I have clearly failed in this endeavour. I sat atContinue reading “Writers Block”

I think of things to do. I have three photography projects in mind, I’ll write about two of them as I can mostly do those without a lot of external help, the third I need a fair bit of help from a couple of sources, so I’ll keep that one under wraps for the timeContinue reading “Projects”

I live on the edge of a major shipping lane.  I take advantage of that.  I like watching the ships. We have;CruiseContainerCargoCar carriersFerriesOil tankersBunkerSailingWarHovercraftLifeboatsPleasure craft (Lots)I enjoy watching them all. So much so, that I registered and act as a node for marine traffic. In particular, in the nice weather, I like to cycle acrossContinue reading “Shipping”

It’s quite nice to be able to fit an exercise regime into normal activity. I like to get up during the week and go for a walk first thing. It’s a good little bit of exercise, and I can go on the #Breakfastclub without disturbing the family. The #Breakfastclub? It’s a radio net, run byContinue reading “Monday”

In a previous post I said that I’d explain what RAYNET is all about. Whilst I was becoming licensed as a Radio Amateur and then when I joined the Horndean & District Amateur Radio Club I became aware of a group who talked about events outside of the club. I heard the name RAYNET mentioned.Continue reading “RAYNET”

Given that this is a new blog, I feel at liberty to delve back in time to previous experiences. In this case another bagged castle. This time, Arundel. I think one of the most spectacular views you can have of castle, is to drive westwards past the town of Arundel on the A27. Now, IContinue reading “Arundel Castle”

We Developed the concept of Castle Bagging a few years ago whilst visiting friends. We had booked a week in a villa just outside Carcassonne in the south of France. The walled city is in the area of the Cathar region, which I still know very little about, but we did know there some CatharContinue reading “Castle Bagging”

Had a couple of days exploring Brighton. After quite a big breakfast, we made our way across to the I360, the British Airways tower for a flight up to 130m, about 450 feet. On the way to the tower, we walked past an op3n air exhibition by the Brighton & Hove Camera Club. I haveContinue reading “Brighton”