Author Archives: Bill

I’ve been a bit frustrated this week. I forgot to take Gilbert with me when we went to Pagham, so I haven’t done any work on Letter 17 (XVII). But at least I have his book now, and I can read the letter in the morning. There is a possibility that the next Letter toContinue reading “2022 – Thoughts Away.”

In some recent posts, I have written about something I’ve been calling “The Organised Ape”. What is it, and what is it all about? To go back to the beginning, it was the very first session of the u3a Online Group on Archaeology that I attended, several months ago now. At that session (presented overContinue reading “2021 – The Organised Ape (until I come up with a better name)”

I’ve just realised that I haven’t done a post about the last u3a Stargazing session. We held it a bit later than usual as it was affected by a bank holiday. Partly because of the late session, it was a couple down on numbers, but we still had a very good discussion. That covered aContinue reading “2020 – Stargazing”

Due to a bit of a mess up, I’m not in a position to do a decent post tonight. There’s nothing major wrong, I just forgot to do something. Apologies about that.

We went fore a short walk on Pagham Brand today. It, like Stokes Bay, is a shingle beach, but the stones on the beach appear to be much different. Stokes bay has what I guess we would think of as stones, whereas Pagham is mostly pebble-like. The stones here are much more rounded and even.Continue reading “2018 – Pagham”

Dear Steve In his sixteenth letter, Gilbert devotes the first paragraph to the Curlew.  I won’t recreate what he says.  What I will do, though, is bring him forward to today and talk about the situation with this bird. After reading the letter, I needed to find out about curlews in particular.  The website forContinue reading “2017 – Letter to Steve, XVI”

The top two images are the moisture level and temperature of West, and the bottom two apply to Mid. Don’t forget that I’ve named the compost bins so that I easily know which one I am talking about. West is so called simply because it is a few yards further west than Mid, called thatContinue reading “2016 – The Compost Bins.”

I really should have gone to the Shed today, but time just ran away from me. Instead: The drive to get to the beach had become a bit of an obsession. Luckily, Elayne was recognising this and said, ” Go”. So I did. It was better than the last time, in a slightly strange way.Continue reading “2015 – Fun Friday”

I think it’s fair to say that I love books. We have a reasonable collection, and if I see a book I like, it’;s rare for me to resist adding it to the collection. I won’t say that we have too many books, but I do have a few that are lined up to beContinue reading “2014 – Books”