Author Archives: Bill

It was a deliberate break in posting, but it’s good to be back. Of course I’ve lost the day count completely, and actually, the serial number in the heading is purely sequential and has, for quite a long time, born no resemblance to the number of days of postings but remains a valid count ofContinue reading “1343 – Out for a walk”

My apologies for not posting over the last couple of days. Having a bit of an interlude. All will be explained. Please bear with me.

A rather dramatic sky over the cockle ponds. A poor worker always blames his tools. Mine are mainly a clumsy microphone, yes that’s it my mic is clumsy. The frustrating thing is that if you use a cabled microphone, you obviously have a long cable to deal with. A wireless microphone on the other handContinue reading “1341 – just a thought”

Really tired tonight, will try to do better tomorrow.

For the first time in a very long time (pretty much a year) I managed to get up every day, Monday to Friday, last week I managed to get up every day for a walk. I would very much like to do the same this week. The roadworks on the cross roads is due toContinue reading “1339 – Last Week & This week”

The Cockle Ponds If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll see a duplicate post to this. Sorry about that. Most mornings when I go for a walk I end up going around these ponds. They are a perpetual source of interest to me. I think two main ones are the frustration I feel when IContinue reading “1338 – The Cockle Ponds”

The waterfront was quite busy this morning, especially around the ferry terminal looked like excited school groups waiting for a trip. As I moved down the esplanade, the noise of excited school children slowly gave way to the sound of the wind. The wind was whining, moaning, it was being blown through a building. ItContinue reading “1337 – Eerie, That’s the word!”

Because I took a break from my morning walks, I have probably missed out on some natural history at the Cockle Ponds, so I was really pleased to meet this little beastie, clinging on to the side. I think it was looking for breakfast. Usually, when they realise I am getting near they scuttle offContinue reading “1336 – Life in the cockle ponds”

I had turned off Clarence Road heading toward the high street, I heard a seagull making that sound which I associate with “There’s a threat to my nest” and lo and behold the screaming seagull is back, only a couple attempts. I have to say, it was nice to see. Something is about to happenContinue reading “1335 – Going for a stroll”

A while ago, Elayne told me that I should do a post (on face book really) about what Cockle Ponds are. When I went for yesterday’s walk I made a point of taking photographs of the information boards around the ponds. I’ve spend a bit of time this evening transcribing them. I have to sayContinue reading “1334 – The Cockle Ponds Part 1”