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; Who is Henry Cort, what process did he invent, why was it so important and what are his links with Gosport? The Falklands Gardens existed well before they were so called. What is their history? What doContinue reading “1643 – Memory Jogger”