Author Archives: Bill

1417 first fortifications built at Gosport Before I came to Gosport, I had never encountered anything like the defences that had been established and built here since the fifteenth century. Of course, I have, we all have (I suspect) experienced things like castles, with or without moats, walled cities like York or St Malo –Continue reading “1034 – Gosport”

No, genuinely, not in this case an ironic understatement – literally, a bit of rain. I was awakened around 4AM it was quite light and the rain was coming down quite heavily. Not only that, but it kept up a drizzle for a good bit of the morning. Very nice to see it rain. TheContinue reading “1033 – A bit of rain”

If you aren’t prepared to put up with walking on the side of some roads that are quite busy, then it is easy to have the perception that there very few pleasant place to walk here. I’m not fully convinced of that. Putting it bluntly, waterlooville is a huge housing estate with what purports toContinue reading “1032 – walking in waterlooville”

This is not really a macro image. But I quite like it. Taken on the iPhone using the zoom setting to get in closer from a distance. It’s frustrating that I have a perfectly good macro set up but I am not using it. Why is that? Well, the camera and the lens are inContinue reading “1031- Macro Photography”

The picture is nothing at all to do with the title of today’s post. It’s a picture from the Isle of Wight Steam Gala we visited on Saturday. I have a job to do, which needed a washing up bowl. We didn’t have one, so obviously I had to go and buy one. The shopsContinue reading “1030 – A washing up bowl”

We were on the commercial railway, heading toward Shanklin. It was a bit of a mixed day. Breakfast in a cafe just across from Shanklin station, which was very nice. Then a walk through the town centre and on down to the waterfront. I hadn’t appreciated how high up we were. We got the cliffContinue reading “1029 – The Isle of Wight Steam Railway”

It was a fairly random decision that led us to go over to the Isle of Wight today. We wanted to take train from Ryde to Shanklin basically, just for heck of it. It was that which led us to being on the wightlink fast cat at 0915. Apart a bit of niggling pain inContinue reading “1028 – we do take the ferry across…”

I came across the water today. No, not a long journey onboard the Santonia from France. Just across from Portsmouth to Gosport. I have to say that the Gosport ferry service is alway run with consummate professionalism. The captains who operate them are able to steer them with such skill, I’ve never known one missContinue reading “1027 – Ferry cross the…”

I know there is a way of including an audio file, I’m just trying to get at the file. It’s what recoded this morning, 22 Jun 23 at around 4AM. The birds going wild. It is, without doubt, the most beautiful alarm clock you will ever hear. It is so loud here in Waterlooville.

I wanted to walk a circular route, and I am not having much luck finding a nice one here in Waterlooville. Part of the walk had me alongside the dual carriageway heading into town, not at all pleasant. At least with my morning walks in Gosport I am minimally affected by traffic fumes. I thinkContinue reading “1025 – out for a walk”