Author Archives: Bill

As you might guess, the picture has nothing to do with thse shop in question. I thought I had a picture of all of the shops on Stoke Road, apparently not. There’s a particular shop that sells second hand and antique items and I have to be honest, based upon what I see in theContinue reading “1508 – An Interesting shop”

I’m reading a book about Queen Elizabeth I. I’m not that far in to the book, but I have been thinking about who and what comes next, so here’s a brief timeline and rough dates; I’m not sure what I am going to do when I reach the end of Charles I reign, but IContinue reading “1507 – History”

I’ve just done a quick, rough count through my blog, and there are over 100 posts where I mention vlogging in one context or another. Now if I do that again in the future, obviously just by including the term “Vlog” here, it will show up in any future search. So the question I amContinue reading “1506 – Am I being silly?”

In a way, a lazy day. I don’t think we unlocked the front door until this afternoon. I have spent much of the day either in front of the computer or reading a book. I learned about the Harris Matrix, this is a method documenting on a timeline how an archaeological site was built, usedContinue reading “1505 – A day of Landscapes, politics, monarchy.”

There’s no particular link with this picture. Because of my desire to vlog, quite a while ago I started experimenting with microphones external to the iphone. Lapel Mics, known as lavalier mics are small and easy to use, but they are a bit frustrating because the clips on them are a bit frail, and IContinue reading “1504 – Frustration with Microphones”

I’ve written several times since I started this blog, about my little project I call “Locality”. What it does is bring various hobbies and interests of mine together to be be applied to a study of the local area, hence Locality. If there is one thing that Locality is about it is landscapes, not justContinue reading “1503 – Locality Landscapes”

I’ve just looked back at what I wrote for Christmas 2023. The joy of this year is the addition of our GrandDaughter. Elayne once again produced a delicious meal, and we are mostly tidied after a bit of a chaotic day, which I have to say was enjoyed by all. I hope you had aContinue reading “1502 – Merry Christmas”

So, it has happened again. On the book front. I ordered a book; The making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins, it arrived earlier than Amazon was saying it would, I wouldn’t complain about that. We were sat at the breakfast table when I opened the package, it was a hazard back version ofContinue reading “1501 – Landscapes”

I post 1488 I wrote the actions of the current and previous councils. I got somethings wrong, and so it’s good to do a little fact checking. I had said that the previous council had turned off CCTV in the town. This is incorrect. They had removed monitoring by people. Recordings continued, so could beContinue reading “1500 – Incorrect, and other matters”

We went for a family visit today. On a bit of a random basis we went for a pub lunch, a pub called The Silent Woman. We had the Sunday Roast, Elayne and Meg had the Roast Beef, I had the Pork. I’m quite happy to say that it was one of the best pubContinue reading “1499 – Sunday”