Author Archives: Bill

On my walk the other morning, I once again came across a shopping trolley that had been thrown in to the cockle ponds. I would really like to understand why people do this, because it confuses the heck out of me. The apology; I wrote and posted a brief piece last night. After a shortContinue reading “1346 – An apology & the high street”

The Keep of Portchester Castle from inside the castle walls. Of course, absolutely nothing to do with garden railways. I had a conversation with Elayne today. To be honest, I was surprised she’s almost enthusiastic about it. I really can’t see it happening though, so I might as well give up on it. Weeelll, notContinue reading “1345 – Garden Railways”

When I came back from Cambridgeshire earlier this week, I had to buy a ferry ticket for the trip to Gosport. Ferry tickets are always a return so I was left with a journey that really wasn’t much use to me. I had been reading my Plantagenets book, and it mentioned Portchester Castle. In 1205Continue reading “1344 – Portchester Castle”

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!”