Author Archives: Bill

What I would really like to do is to walk down Gosport’s High Street, but the key thing is – with a historian. Now this is the awkward bit, I’d like it to be someone quite well known, perhaps Prof. Alice Roberts (ok, not really a historian, but she is good), Lucy Worsley or SimonContinue reading “954 – A walk down the High Street.”

There are plenty of online services that will take an audio file and transcribe it. Most of them are paying, but there might be some that are fre, probably though, with limitations. I don’t want to pay. A good friend suggested using Siri on my iPhone to record a note. The mistake I made wasContinue reading “953 – Note Taking (again) (not)”

What I am after is a way of taking notes whilst I am out walking. Quite often I find myself in a poisition where I want to record an observation. It could be anything from something I’ve seen, a feeling I have, a comment made by somebody on the #Breakfastclub to which I want toContinue reading “952 – Taking Notes”

I’m really sorry for this but no time for a post today. We binge watched all the episodes on Netflix. Most entertaining.

Today wemade a decision that we would go to Southampton. Really, there are only two shops that I am interested in at West Quay, shopping Mall at the centre of town. That’s the Apple Store – and to be honest, there is little point of going there unless you are going to buy something. ThereContinue reading “950 – Bookshopping”

The picture has nothing to do with today’s post. Just to set a bit of context. The Met Office got the forecast right. Rain & high winds. I didn’t go for a walk this morning. It was to put it mildly, chucking it down. I wasn’t complaining. Sometimes it’s nice to go back to bed.Continue reading “949 – The Weather, follow up”

Misty tends to jump on the bed at about 5AM, demanding attention. That’s usually the first opportunity to test the weather, is she cold, or perhaps wet? Some times she is drenched. I have to confess that very occasionally, I hope it is raining because then I can go back to bed. If it isn’tContinue reading “948 – The Weather”

I took this picture not realising how much it would appeal to me until I saw it on the iPad back at home. There’s something a bit ghostly about the way the top of the spinnaker is peeking out of the mist. I thought it looked really interesting. I talked about one of the newsgroupsContinue reading “947 – Photo of the week (so far)”

Three of the monthlies have arrived; RCTS, B&W Photography and Country walking , the frustration is I am reading We are Bellingcat, the story of open source intelligence, and I’d rather read that than the magazines, but the mags look really interesting. B&W photog has been dipping a little bit into history, showing a pictureContinue reading “946 – Magazines”

It is that first look out the window that does it. The clock ticks over to 0535. I’ve been watching it for the last five minutes, relishing the warmth and comfort of bed, with no likely hood of going back to sleep, I’ve been awake the last hour or sometimes more. It’s time to getContinue reading “945 – Out for a walk”