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Every year, this running event for ladies is run for the Rowan Hospice in Purbrook near Waterlooville. For the last three times that the event was run I have made a point of getting up extra early so that I can walk the circuit. A nice bit of exercise to start the day. I doContinue reading “668 – Purbrook Ladies 5 Mile Run”

The magazine turned up a day or so ago. It didn’t take me long to find an article that touch me. Here’s a link the photographer that is a subject of the article, including some pictures that are in the magazine; http://www.ianbeesley.com/ I admit that I have only lived in Gosport for a few years,Continue reading “667 This Month’s B&W photography”

Two real books; writing non-fiction and the train spotters diary have attracted my attention. The writing none fiction by Joanna Penn is about what the title is. I bought the book, because I’d quite like to write one, don’t think I have a fiction book in me, and wanted to know a little bit moreContinue reading “666 – Reading”

The Queen Galadriel is a Baltic trader, built in 1937 in Denmark. She is a lovely looking old ship, used for sail training. She has berthed here, next to the Mighty Mouse Lightship several times in recent years. Gosport is obviously a regular port of call. At the time I took this picture, and othersContinue reading “665 – The Queen Galadriel”

The light in the evening is different by 180 degrees in the evening. It was lovely to see the Commodore Goodwill heading out, I think towards the Channel Islands. The quality of the light was lovely. I’d had a busy day and the two opportunities I had to go for a walk were scuppered becauseContinue reading “664 – Evening Walk and Ooops.”

If you had a problem at sea, you would definitely be pleased to see this team and their boat turn up. This is a piece about bad news. Which we had yesterday. The problem is I do like to keep these and my facebook posts cheerful and pleasant. When there is bad news, it’s notContinue reading “663 – Bad News”

I’m not going to write much today. I’m sorry about that.

Tomorrow is the last day of the four day extended Jubilee Weekend, celebrating HM’s 70 years as the head of state. The last three days have been exhausting – good, but exhausting. It was nice to see the movie Maverick on the big IMAX screen in Chichester. We won’t go there for every film, butContinue reading “661 – Jubilee Weekend”

There was no #Breakfastclub this Friday morning. I’m not at work. I didn’t have to get up. We had a busy day ahead of us. Lots of running around and setting up in the morning. We had a neighbours BBQ. We had a lovely time. But it has been a long day, and I amContinue reading “660 – HM The Queens Platinum Jubilee”

Well, not for a walk anyway. I could have got up at my normal time, 0535. I could have got up at 0300 because I was awake, and couldn’t get back to sleep. In the end, didn’t bother. We went to see the next chapter in Tom Cruise’s Top Gun series – Maverick. I haveContinue reading “659 – I didn’t get out today”