Category Archives: personal blog

For a long time, I had aspirations to be a town councillor. I’ve avoided talking about politics because it never turns out the way I want it to – I’m not particularly adept at debate. I’ve more or less given that idea up. I think the whole experience would probably be too stressful. I thenContinue reading “603 – Gossip”

The round Tower, across the water in Portsmouth, I wanted to get a picture of it being battered by the white water, but timing is difficult to judge. From that, you’ll gather that it was quite windy today. The wind blowing gustily for my morning walk and hadn’t let up at lunch time. The thingContinue reading “602 – Lunchtime Walk”

It’s really unfortunate, that a trip down to the waterfront at low tide reveals this unfortunate sight. Of course it disappears when the tide comes back up. I reported one trolley to Street scene – they told me that anything on the seaward side of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall is the responsibility of QHM,Continue reading “601 – Down to the Waterfront”

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”