Author Archives: Bill

several years ago, I bought a Gopro. These cameras produce imgaes of an amazing quality. Yet I have mostly ignored it. Probably because I think, it means carrying another tool (the camera). But in reality it is compact, easily fits in the pocket and not heavy. I don’t know what made me get it out,Continue reading “1612 GoPros”

I’m not sure how this snail got to the top of the bird table, but if it did climb up, and I have found snails half way up the post before, well done to it. I couldn’t bring myself to take it off. I’ll check in the morning to see where it got to. SnailsContinue reading “1611 – Snails”

This is a picture converted to mono of some litter that was thrown in to the Cockleponds, something which doubly annoys the heck out of me; the fact that people treat these lovely resources with such disdain and disrespect and the fact that for some reason the pictures really appeal to me. I can noContinue reading “1610 – Is There a Point V2 – Ooops”

I have been looking at planning applications. I wanted to see if I could identify any activities that it would be good to track (like the demolition of No. 8 (Poundstretchers) and its replacement by a block of flats. I’m going to have to vary my walk now, to track that. I haven’t finished lookingContinue reading “1609 – Is there a point”

The way these two gulls were acting, like they were in a tug of war, I thought their beaks had been superglued together. There was obviously something that neither wanted to let go, I did seriously consider getting closer to see if they were stuck, but I backed off and when I looked back aContinue reading “1608 – Back to Normal”

OK, a slight play on numbers. It’s 1607 – 267 = 1340. There’s nothing significant beyond it being the sequence number of this post. There’s nothing significant about the 267 except that’s the number of years difference between 1607 (for the purposes of this article, an insignificant date) and 1340, which is the year thatContinue reading “1607 – Two Hundred and Sixty Seven years Earlier”

The first part of today was a trip from Tenterden to Bodiam on the Kent & Easr Sussex Light Railway (K&ES). The trip to the railway was across country along some B roads, they were to say the least a bit tight and twisty in places. We arrived with not many minutes to have aContinue reading “1606 – A bit rushed, but not at Rye”

There’s a phenomenon in photography that typically occurs with architecture when pictured using a wide angle lens. It’s called converging verticals. Let’s just say that the verticals of Canterbury Cathedral don’t slope anywhere near like what they do in the picture. Anyhow, you’ll gather that we visited this august city and building today. The cathedralContinue reading “1605 – A Sandwich…in Sandwich? (Oh, and Canterbury)”

I can’t help wondering if you might think like me, that there is a thing about place names. Names that for whatever reason stick in your mind; Angmering is one, Princes Risbororough and Bishops Stortford are others. Of those three names I have a very tenuous link with only one, the others are there becauseContinue reading “1604 – An Ambition fulfilled?”

It’s almost like there was a hiatus – Wetherspoons is now open and working, after what was a £1Million refurbishment, Bon Marche will have opened today and things are happening with McDonalds I can see through the screen, but nothing is visible on the high street. It’s fairly obvious that the bus station won’t beContinue reading “1603 – The Morning Walk”