Author Archives: Bill

We met up with our dear friends from St Neots and had a very pleasant day experiencing Pompei (obviously, it was not very pleasant for the “Pompeiians”). The exhibition is held at the Excel centre, Royal Victorian Docks in London. I’m not going to write about the experience, but I would like to comment onContinue reading “1873 – We go to London”

What a wet day – the rain was that fine drizzle that just seems to get everywhere. Not at all pleasant – unless you have the right clothing. Well, today I had the right clothing in the shape of my winter coat. Bought last year from Mountain Warehouse, with a very reasonable discount, it isContinue reading “1872 – Sunday’s weather”

I think I must have been sitting awkwardly yesterday evening. When I stood up, I nearly fell over, the pain was so intense. But, rather than sit back down, I simply had to move and within less than six steps, the pain, thankfully, had gone. Of course, sitting down brought it back. The thing toContinue reading “1871 – Saturday”

I’m now a paid up member of the Gosport Shed. This promises to be very interesting as they do some really interesting trips out. The first of the year being to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, in Feb. Looking forward to that. I didn’t get out for a walk today, although I didContinue reading “1870 – The Gosport Shed”

I had a Doctors appointment this morning. We covered a range of topics around my persistent cough and retirement. I felt it was quite useful. I haven’t had a chance to pick up the new medicine but I will do tomorrow. Hopefully, that will help things. Aurora has been with us overnight. She woke upContinue reading “1869 – The Day”

Why is it, that when i was working, an 8 hour day seemed so long, yet now I am retired it seems so short? it looks like that on a typical day, I am only able to get one or two things done, and then the day is gone – and just for clarity, IContinue reading “1868 – The week so far”

I had a couple of things lined up for today, and in the most part, with one exception I didn’t do any of them. I was going to do an e-consult with the Doctor, didn’t get around to it. It’s OK I can do it tomorrow as it’s in readiness for the Thursday appointment. IContinue reading “1867 – A Nothing day…Kind of”

Apart from this wretched cough, today has been really quite delightful. It really doesn’t matter that it was cold, the clear sky gave the sun a chance to share some of its warmth, even if the air had a bite to it. I said hello to several people whilst out on the walk, and weContinue reading “1866 – U3A Mostly”

We were fairly late to rise, but that was OK, after all, it is Sunday. Breakfast went well, I’m on a bit of a porridge thing at the moment. We then had a few jobs to do. One of which was to empty the kitchen bins. This meant my first venture into the open forContinue reading “1865 – Should have…”

We walked into town again today. We did the Charity shops. We ended up at the ferry end of the high street and went in to Cafe #1 for a drink. Cafe#1 is very popular. Understandably so. What with Poppins and the Gallery I’ve now visited 3 Cafes. In Fairness, Cafe#1 is a relatively frequentContinue reading “1864 – Exploring Cafes”