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OK, so I did this with as free iPhone app called Snapseed. It is Brilliant, I’ve been wanting yo do this for ages. OK it’s not perfect and it is a little bit fiddley, but I am very pleased with the result. Tuesday Morning, I wake up, the heating hasn’t kicked in yet, so it’sContinue reading “447 Out for a (cold) walk”

It’s a lovely blue sky in the picture isn’t it? Even the water looks. Relatively calm. Actually, it was quite breezy, the closest flag doesn’t look like it’s not that windy, but the flags a bit further down a really flying. Yesterday, it was windy with heavy rain, it was really rough. I really loveContinue reading “446 The Weather”

When we moved to Gosport, there was an excellent model shop on Stokes Road. It catered for every flavour of modeller that you might care to list. Sadly, it closed down a couple of years ago. There is another model shop on Stokes Road, this owner doesn’t give the same impression as the first shop.Continue reading “445 Models”

This picture was taken from a part of Gosport that I have never visited before. I knew it was there but had just never managed to get around to visiting it. Back in the 1800’s this used to be a very posh part of the city, it was very cultivated with lovely pathways for peopleContinue reading “444 Out for a walk”

When I started doing the 366 exercise, things went OK for a bit, but I realised that I needed a routine for the writing. I’ve become very aware over the last couple of weeks that some of writings are quite meandering, and really not that good (well, worse than usual). After 366, I said thatContinue reading “443 Friday”

I’ve just been looking back through my diary for 2021. It’s an A5 Day per page. I didn’t start it until later on in January, and initially I was putting a lot of information in it about the book that I was reading at the time, this was because during the 366 times I wasContinue reading “442 Diaries and Habits”

OK, I know the header picture isn’t a sparrow. It’s the same starling that visited us when we were sat at Pebbles. It was so close to us, and completely untroubled. Lovely. We have plenty of food in the garden, I know this because there is food left at the end of the day. ItContinue reading “441 Sparrows”

This is the Bell Tower of Trinity Church in Gosport. Trinity Church has an organ that was played by Handel, in 1747, the church bought the organ for £300, as best as I can make it that’s not far short of £50,000 in todays money. This brief snippet is totally unrelated to the rest ofContinue reading “440 – I’ve got a Secret…”

In the days of film (yes, I know you can still shoot film, but unless you are a really serious devotee, why would you?) one of the biggest disappointments was getting your pictures or slides back and the image you really wanted is, for whatever reason blurred and in your eyes wasted and unusable. ItContinue reading “439 In Camera Movement”

We were sat at a table when this little beaut decided to join us. Quite unconcerned by us. It sat there clearly waiting for us to provide it with some food. I most certainly have obliged if I had been able to, sadly I couldn’t. I think it got annoyed after about 5 minutes andContinue reading “438 My Starlings and Other Birds”