Category Archives: personal blog

My initial thought was to do a quite heavy crop on this picture, but then when I really looked at it, I saw what appears to be almost a feeling of motion toward the centre of the frame. How about this one; Here’s the Normandie coming in through the Portsmouth Harbour entrance. I think theContinue reading “427 Winter Photography”

I’m sat in my comfy chair, waiting for the next episode of Spooks to start, when Elayne drops some chocolate coins into my lap. The left over of a Women’s Institute Christmas preparation. “Don’t eat them all in one go” she says, Hah! There’s this thing about chocolate that makes it completely addictive. As longContinue reading “426 Chocolate Waterfront”

This is looking to the west at about 0645. There’s something about the light that appeals to me. I haven’t spoken about the books that I’m reading at the moment, I have two on the go; the book about village life I tend to read at breakfast, the book about portsmouth, and the book byContinue reading “425 Books”

Yesterday, we spent most of the day in the garden getting it ready for winter. We haven’t finished, and will probably give it another good going next weekend. Still even though I did a quick walk in to town to get lunch from Greggs (yes, we were a bit naughty) which is only about aContinue reading “424 Sunday”

I know that the title is a bit strange, I’ll explain; In 2016 I became a licensed radio ham. If you are licensed, you’ll know how to look me up, my callsign was M6BBB, it’s still registered to me, I’m now an intermediate. This is important, because being a radio ham has introduced me toContinue reading “423 The Station Manager says 73”

I think the Cockle ponds were the smoothest I’d seen them for a long while. There have been a couple of times over the last week or so, when the time has come to write and I really couldn’t think of anything. That’s why you’ve ended up with either a shorter than normal or somethingContinue reading “422 Writing the Week”

Do you watch the tides? Water goes up, water goes down and that’s it right? Of course it’s never that simple is it? Sometimes, I can be incredibly dumb. I never found out until not too long ago that spring tides have nothing at all to do with spring, and that they occur every month,Continue reading “421 Tides”

Best viewed full screen. Our front door just about faces due south. That means this time of the year when I leave the house for my morning walk, if the sky is clear, I get a quite spectacular view of the sky, especially Orion. That constellation was especially prominent as I stepped out this morning.Continue reading “420 Orion”

Here’s the K&F Concept Tripod; https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=K%26F+concept+tripod&client=safari&hl=en-gb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQqc_K77PzAhVN8OAKHTcJC6IQ_AUoA3oECAEQBQ&biw=1366&bih=891&dpr=2#imgrc=bZxaRD-1llqfNM My assumption was that the centre column of any tripod I would be interested in would form the monopod. But, thinking about it that wouldn’t work, what ever mechanism is used to secure leg segment would get in the way. The visit to the London Camera Exchange on SaturdayContinue reading “419 Tripods”

The Musketier outbound fromPortsmouth, not sure where it was going, but nice seeing it go out. I’ve looked on a couple of websites that cut wood. Who’d have thought that a basic piece of plywood (9mm 1.25mx0.5m, plus enough 1×1 (25x25mm) wood to edge and provide 4 lateral batons could both be so difficult andContinue reading “418 Model Railway”