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The picture has nothing to do with today’s post. I thought I had better clear up any chance of confusion. I just thought it looked an interesting manhole cover, taken from a low angle. Last night I attended the first meeting of my radio club. I was sat next to John, one of the members.Continue reading “598 – Out for a walk”

I started the week looking at rough sleepers in the area. I had been a bit distressed to see one of the people I speak to occasionally picking up used cigarette butts to make up a smoke, I haven’t seen hims since. I’d have been a bit concerned over the last couple of days, asContinue reading “597 – A review of the week”

I changed the route of my morning walk today. I normally join the high street at a point about halfway down, usually just after 6AM. As you can imagine, it’s pretty quiet at that time, usually the only people I see actually working are the staff in Greggs, the taxi drivers and the ferry staffContinue reading “596 – Working Pictures”

For my lunchtime walk I needed to do two things. The first was to prove that I was capable of walking through the town centre without stopping at the bakery to buy a Cornish pasty (they are rather nice). I’m pleased to say that I passed that test. I walked down through the town centreContinue reading “595 – That curious look”

I have a choice. I have written about this before. In 2017 I went along Stokes road taking pictures of the shop frontages, then I read something and I realise that I should have thought a bit more about my 2017 project. This is because I am now slightly conflicted. The 2017 pictures were justContinue reading “594 – It doesn’t work”

Out on my lunchtime walk, on Mumby Road I saw this lorry negotiating its way out of an incredibly tight turn at really awkward place. What is difficult to see toward the front offside of the lorry is a large mobile bin in front of a telecoms box which the lorry has to negotiate past.Continue reading “593 – Working Pictures”

The Gosport branch of Burtons closed several months ago. It was a difficult choice to choose what was the saddest image of the thirteen shops I pictured this afternoon as I walked along the High Street, I’m not sure that this is the one that has been closed longest, it’s probably not, but it servesContinue reading “592 – The High Street Revisited”

This is the Brittany Ferry Salamanca. Coming into the harbour at probably around 1630 today. I wouldn’t have seen her if I hadn’t made the decision that I was going to go to the Haslar Marina Pier Wall (HMPW) with a set sequence of shots in my head. I wasn’t even worried about being outContinue reading “591 – Out and about”

Rough sleepers disturb me. Not the person, but the fact that they are sleeping on the week. I’m not going to go in to the reasons as to why it happens because each story is different. There is a group of people who look as though they sleep rough regularly. One in particular who sleepsContinue reading “590 – On the street”

These particular empty chairs and tables do not reflect the state of Gosport’s High Street, especially as the picture wa taken at about ten past six in the morning. But as an illustration it serves a purpose of depicting a high street that is not in the best of health. I don’t think it unreasonableContinue reading “589 – The High Street”