Category Archives: personal blog

The No morning walk situation is getting a bit dire. Today, it would have been the only exercise I had. I wasn’t able to get out at lunchtime, which was frustrating. I woke up in time to go for the walk, but I just couldn’t get out of bed. I am very aware that thisContinue reading “884 – The frosted rain gauge”

Elayne was going with Sian to a Wedding Fair in the Paulsgrove area. Elayne asked if I wanted to go. I didn’t really want to go to the fair, but it occurred to me that I could go there and walk down to Gunwharf. It couldn’t be two far. Google maps said it was aboutContinue reading “883 – Out for a walk”

Whenever I go for a walk during shop opening hours, I always try to walk past a certain hardressers on Stokes Road. That’s because they usually have a little board outside, with a saying or something. Today’s made me smile; It’s like winter is mad, and keeps storming out. But then it comes back inContinue reading “883 – Saturday”

It’s the weekend. Friday evening. I should have gone to the radio club, it was partly I thought we were going to have a zoom meeting about RAYNET, we didn’t and partly because I just didn’t feel like it. So, we’ve ended up watching the original Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy. A 1979 TV series. IContinue reading “882 – The Weekend”

Just to be clear, the picture has nothing at to do with today’s topic. I’ve been putting on weight, and I really don’t like it. So the only person who can do anything about it is me. There are two things I need to do; eat less & properly and exercise more. The first oneContinue reading “881 – food”

We are watching a couple of episodes of Call the Midwife. It is one of those BBC series which really is a pleasure to watch. At the start of each programme a famous actress who stars in the show, Vanessa Redgrave does a brief narrative to start the show. This evening, she said some wordsContinue reading “880 – the day”

The only link between the header picture and the title is the bird. It’s not on the bird table. Sometime between 8 and 9 in the morning, I will go out and do my bit. I am using up the supply of peanuts, which takes a minute to ground up in the cheap food processorContinue reading “879 – The Bird Table”

When ever I head towards the waterfront, it is always with the hope that there will be something going on. That was the case today for the lunchtime walk. The Colombian Star, a Reefer (a ship carrying refrigerated containers) was being escorted in to Portsmouth Harbour by two tugs. Like many of my pictures, theContinue reading “878 – Colombian Star”

I have to confess that I am sat here absolutely steaming with frustration and not a little bit of anger, and I can blame no one because it’s my own fault. Of course, it is all about committees. Today, yet another one has gone wrong form me. This is a hard annoying lesson that IContinue reading “877 – Attention to detail”

Around 1972, probably for my birthday, my sister bought me a dictionary (I think I may have said I needed one for school). I was given a very nice hardcover Oxford Dictionary. I got the mickey taken. out of me quite a bit over the dictionary. I’d be looking up a word, and that wasContinue reading “876 – Dictionaries”