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At lunchtime today, I didn’t know that I was going to write about the high street, and so I didn’t take a picture. I’ve decided that for the time being I’m going to walk done the high street every day that I go out for a lunchtime walk. I’m doing this because I want toContinue reading “600 – Down the high street”

It has been an interesting week for walking. I managed ego clock up just over 36 miles, so I’m quite pleased with that. I’ve changed my route a couple of times to include the high street at different times. For example, I generally walk down the half of the high street at around ten pastContinue reading “599 – The Walking Week”

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”