Author Archives: Bill

I still don’t know what is going with the railway station, whether this work is routine maintenance or to fix a problem. I’ve been sitting, looking at the ipad for the last 10 – 15 minutes, waiting for inspiration to strike, and it has blatantly failed to do so. Hence I am falling back onContinue reading “1652 – Writers block”

Last night at the camera club was a bit of a social occasion, food was laid on, which we had forgotten about and had had tea anyway. Still we had a couple of bits and pieces and sandwiches, all of which were very nice. The final competition was to choose a picture that people hadContinue reading “1651 – Wednesday Walk”

How can a day be busy, lazy & relaxing? That pretty much sums today up. We got a few things done. I paid a visit to The Gosport Shed. I’m not ready to join yet, but l’m pretty much certain I will do. Their model railway layout is big, and impressive – I bet it’sContinue reading “1650 – A quick check”

I’ve just taken a quick look at my FaceBook timeline, and my last post was only four days ago. I have to confess, I thought it was a lot longer than that since posting. I really should have done a post over the weekend but hadn’t. Not through lack of opportunity. We had spent aContinue reading “1649 – Around Gosport”

I would really like to improve my writing. How am I going to do this? Given that this is post No. 1648, and I have probably done a couple of hundred FaceBook posts, clearly I can write, the absolutely burning question in my mind is; Why am I bothering? Well, the main thing is IContinue reading “1648 – Writing”

Something, presumably restorative, is being done to the railway station, I don’t know what, but I will try and find out. Beyond that, the header picture has nothing to do with today’s post. Talking of today’s post, we took a trip out to Wickham, {I’m not sure if it is a town or a village,Continue reading “1647 – Wickham”

It was a video morning. I’d prepared to do a bit of video in the Falklands Gardens and it had gone quite well and I was walking along the esplanades past a couple of young lads, I reckon they were late teens, 17 plus, they asked “are you vlogging”? I said “yes”. We then hadContinue reading “1646 – A Nice Encounter”

If I say “The Backs” I suspect most people will think of Cambridges area from the town centre, a rather attractive part of the town, showing off the backs of the various colleges leading down to the river. Those are not the backs I am referring to. For my interest here are the backs ofContinue reading “1645 – The Backs”

Apparently, it’s an excess of carbon that make wrought iron more brittle than it should be. Back in the 1700’s this was a big problem for the Navy. It was possible to produce a higher quality wrought iron but it was a slow and expensive process. Henry Cort came a long as a producer ofContinue reading “1644 – Henry Cort”

I want tonight’s post to act as a bit of a reminder to do some little mini-projects like; That’ll do for a start.