Category Archives: personal blog

It’s that time of the year again. My wife is now pestering me to write the family Christmas letter for inclusion in all the Christmas Cards we send. Writing the Christmas Letter is sometimes, well, most of the time, a surprisingly stressful activity. Sometimes it’s really easy, other times it is much more difficult. TheContinue reading “814 – Christmas Letters”

It would help a bit if it weren’t really autumnal weather. The showers are intense and frequent. Whenever I get ready to go for a walk, it starts raining. Most frustrating. So yesterday, I wrote about struggles that I am having. I was thinking this evening that perhaps I could start a project of someContinue reading “813 – Projects”

It sounds wimpish and excuse-ridden. I have been having a struggle lately. I’ve given up my role as treasurer of my radio club, a position I have held for six years. I confess to some relief at having given up the role. Sometime soon, I will be giving up my role as secretary of myContinue reading “812 – Struggles”

To be fair, I didn’t intend to walk in the rain, but I knew it would be the only time I would be able to get out today, and we needed a couple of bits. Although the clouds were heavy there was always the chance the rain would hold off. Luckily, I wore my decentContinue reading “811 – Walking in the Rain”

To be fair, I didn’t intend to walk in the rain, but I knew it would be the only time I would be able to get out today, and we needed a couple of bits. Although the clouds were heavy there was always the chance the rain would hold off. Luckily, I wore my decentContinue reading “811 – Walking in the Rain”

We did talk about what we were going to do today. We have a busy, but very pleasant weekend to look forward to next week, and the visit to Gilbert whites house last week went well, so we decided that this weekend would be a bit of a lazy one. We walked in to townContinue reading “810 – Lazy Day”

At 2335 last night, I woke up enough to recall that I hadn’t done a blog post. My iPad was on the bed beside me. I picked it up and then my brain said “Nope, not doing it”. I forced my brain to think of a few choice words of an unpublishable nature and promptlyContinue reading “809 – oops”

This is from a few years ago I wanted to watch the cruise ships come in to Southampton. Of course I can watch them from Stokes bay, or Lee-on-the-Solent or I could get reasonably close to their course at Gilkicker, I just wanted to see them from a different angle. Calshot is good because itContinue reading “808 – Calshott”

The wall in the picture is called a ha-ha. I didn’t know that this was the name for this kind of feature. What is the point of a ha-ha? I got this from google;  to give the viewer of the garden the illusion of an unbroken, continuous rolling lawn, whilst providing boundaries for grazing livestock.Continue reading “807 – Books”

It has been more than a week since I last went on my morning walk. The really quite nasty cough that I’ve had is fading. I’ve secretly enjoyed not having to get up at 0535 and follow the same route that I have followed for what feels like five or six years. The deep frustrationContinue reading “806 – It has been a week”