Category Archives: personal blog

I got my bus pass today. I thought it would be inteeresting to see where I could go practically in a day? When we were travelling to Oxfordshire last week, we passed Highclere Castle, the home (to me, and I suspect several million other people) of Downton Abbey. Can I get to Highclere on theContinue reading “909 – Bus Routes”

The ponds are empty. It happened over the weekend. Right in the middle of the bigger pond there is a puddle, it’s quite large so obviously there must still be something in there, for the last two mornings the heron has been there. I presume that it is the council that has been working onContinue reading “908 – The Cockle Ponds”

One of the people I follow on FaceBook, goes by the name of The Dorset Rambler. He posts every so often (not every day). He takes some lovely photos whilst out on his walk, and has the right kit to get some lovely pictures of local birds as well as sunsets. Now, I do haveContinue reading “907 – photographing birds”

I must have done the route that I follow on my morning walk a few hundred times. Nearly every road I walk along has some history. At the beginning of this blog, I intended to write more about the history and I have done to a limited extent. Part of my problem is that IContinue reading “906 – The Morning Walk”

We have just had a really lovely weekend at Heythrop park. It’s been on the cards for a few weeks. There are some things that want to comment upon; I phoned the hotel and asked about the charging points. I was confidently informed that they were Tesla chargers, and didn’t have type 2 sockets. IContinue reading “905 – 124/100”

We went for a walk today, not a long one, but it did involve a couple of steep-ish slopes. We got to the point, a gate where I had initially suggested we walk to, and as we were on it seemed reasonable to carry on to what we hoped might be the top of hill.Continue reading “904 – out for a walk”

Nothing quite like it. We went for a walk through the woods today. It was really quite pleasant. We saw a muntjac deer in the distance, was a fleeting glimpse of one or two seconds as it slipped into the undergrowth, and quite a few yards away, but it was quite distinctive. Lovely to see.Continue reading “903 – Mud, Glorious Mud”

The really frustrating things about ev charging revolve around when you do it away from home. Perhaps the biggest bugbear is whether the charger is working. My view is that it must be a legal requirement that who ever owns a publicly available charging point must have a response plan in place for when itContinue reading “902 – EV Charging & Beer”

During a conversation this evening, was reminded of a couple of visits to places that at various times I had always wanted to go. One of the first library books I took out of hte grownup section of Wareham Library was the story of the construction of Jodrell Bank, at the time, I think itContinue reading “901 – Memories”

Just ten days short of two and a half years ago is how long since I started numbering this blog. I suppose to be strictly honest there will be a couple of days when things went a bit astray, but I think for the most part I have gone with the schedule. I reckon ifContinue reading “900 – Two Years, 170 Days”