Category Archives: personal blog

I’m sat at my desk. I have a set of minutes to write up from the Annual General Meedting of the RAYNET group of which I am secretary. The meeting was last Wednesday, and this is the first chance I’ve had to do it. I’m going to do this post first though, because I alwaysContinue reading “548 – Writing”

Last night I talked about trying new things in photography, and posted the above picture. I’ve had, not surprisingly, questions as to “What is it?” Well; It’s a milk shake bottle, I had opened the clasp pointed the camera down in to the spout and got as close as I could. The yellow/white part inContinue reading “547 – What was it?”

A bit of experimentation doesn’t hurt. I acknowledge that I’m not very adventurous with my photography, mainly lack of ideas really. I have thousands of pictures like this; It’s fair enough that every picture taken from or near this spot is different, unique in its own way because of the sky. Some of them couldContinue reading “546 – It’s all in the detail”

I went out for my lunchtime walk today. I was walking over the Forton Lake Millenium Bridge, when I had one of those moments. It wasn’t quite like de ja vue, but it was a strange feeling. I’ll explain. In my life there have been four films that have had what I would class asContinue reading “545 – Great Expectations”

At the moment, I’m reading a book about how preparations for D-Day was affecting the local area. It’s fascinating and it prompted our visit to Warsash the weekend before last. I’m about halfway through the book, and am looking for mentions of specific locations, rather than “just” towns. I have several books lined up, oneContinue reading “544 – Books”

My desire to write, I think remains as firm as when I started the 366 project 543 days ago, even that was a fair time after lockdowns had started. I had no idea at the time whether I would complete that project (I was delighted to do so) and when I extended it beyond theContinue reading “543 – The Blog”

This is the wood for the baseboard for my model railway! I have it now, and I can start work on building the baseboard. I have a particular person top thank for this, I don’t think they read my blog, but I know someone who does who knows them, and they will pass on myContinue reading “542 – I have the Wood (for my baseboard)”

I can honestly say that I do not go around Gosport digging 4 – 5 feet deep holes, as much as I might want to – and why is that, you might quite reasonably ask? Simply to explore the geology of the area. Quite a long time ago I did my Geology O’Level (a nowContinue reading “541 – Geology”

There was a point on this morning’s walk as I was on the promenade where the only thing I could hear was the lapping of the water. There was no vehicle noise, no generator noise from any where, no bird noise. It was, just for a few seconds quite strange, but really quite pleasant. IContinue reading “540 – Walking”

I had a bit of a rough night and woke up just a few minutes later than I usually do, but wasn’t too late getting out of the house. I had another encounter with a town fox. I turned on to North Street and the fox was stood under the archway. Luckily, I had myContinue reading “539 – The Fox”