Category Archives: personal blog

Here are the magazines I subscribe to; I’ve been taking the first three magazines for a number of years now, and Dorset Life for just over one year. The things is, when I first subscribed, I would flick through the magazines, and read the odd article here and there. But then the lockdowns came. OnceContinue reading “933 – Magazines”

I have an audible account. If you aren’t familiar with that, they have a very large collection of audio books. But I also like proper paper books. It’s been quite a while, two possibly three years since I read a fiction book I’ve been going through a non-fiction phase. That doesn’t apply to audio booksContinue reading “932 – Science Fiction”

I don’t think I’ve done this before. Sat down and thought about the week ahead. I am hoping that this will give me an opportunity to think about what could occupy this space over the coming days. There’s always the chance that something interesting could crop up on one of the morning or lunchtime walks.Continue reading “931 – The week ahead”

Actually, the picture is from earlier this week. The Commodore Clipper, inbound passing the Spinnaker. It was a misty, drizzly morning hence the top of tower missing. Apart from Wednesday, when it was raining in the morning, it’s been quite a good week for walking. There have been three days when I haven’t been ableContinue reading “930 – Saturday”

I quite enjoyed putting together a sequence of three pictures to illustrate a railway story on project 365. It was a relatively easy story to illustrate. I would quite like to find another story to illustrate. I’m sure there are plenty around. I’m sorry, tonight’s post is going to be brief. I’ve left doing tonight’sContinue reading “929 – a short story”

Avenue 141 is a bit of a special restaurant. An annex of Fareham College, it is run entirely by the students who are on various courses. Chefs, waiting staff, managers. There are usually three or four choices on the menu for starters, mains and desserts. I had halloumi with salad, followed by steak with theContinue reading “928 – A meal out.”

Elayne had gone out for a meal with friends. I had watched an episode of The Orville, and had started thinking about tonight’s blog. I went and looked at what I had written last night about want to vlog and “just doing it” I was thinking about the setup. Would I want to use multipleContinue reading “927 – I almost did it.”

I have this thing say, for example, Vlogging that I would really like to do. So, I rush about making sure that I have everything I need to produce a vlog of actually quite good quality. There are three fairly major problems. I had this thing about speaking and videoing in public, actually getting outContinue reading “926 – I keep returning to a theme”

The day started with a dead badger. As soon as I saw the pathetic looking heap in the middle of the road as I left the house I knew what it was. With a degree of trepidation, I took closer look firstly confirming that it was badger that was deceased, and there was no bloodContinue reading “925 – That was the day that was”

What we thought would be quite nice was to take lunch over to Titchfield Haven, the nature reserve just a little way along the coast from Lee-on-The-Solent. We prepared our tuna mayo rolls, a piece of fruit and a drink, took books and magazines and were prepared for an afternoons relaxation. We like to takeContinue reading “924 – The Solent Way”