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Out for my lunchtime walk following my usual route over Forton Lake bridge, up near the Explosion Museum, coming back I thought I’d try taking a picture of the end of the handrail, it’s one of those “let’s see if this works”. Is it the big white circle, the lines, the contrast with the blueContinue reading “379 Photography”

As usual, the picture has no relationship with the content of the post. The Book is; The Walker’s guide to outdoor Clues & Signs by Tristan Gooley. I was going to share a link with you, but it’s a long horrendous amazon link, that I don’t want here, possibly at the bottom of this post.Continue reading “378 So, there’s this book…”

Not strictly First Light seeing as the sun is behind clouds rather than coming over the horizon, but close enough. The mornings are drawing in. Dawns early light is beginning to catch up with me. When I had to go the dentist on Monday, the hygienist was talking about Autumn starting next week. I mustContinue reading “377 Morning Walker”

The Wilson Wisla on her way out of the harbour, heading towards Rotterdam. Don’t know what she’s carrying. I value my weekends. I obviously have jobs to do around the house, but once these are done and we don’t have anything organised, then I have some time to do what I want. I could forContinue reading “376 A bit mixed up.”

Why is historical research so interesting? Because you find out interesting things. Over the last couple of days I’ve found out about hundreds (they are an Anglo Saxon measure of land area) interesting because they are still used today in at least one very special case; it’s the only way a MP can resign byContinue reading “375 History”

I Haven’t been in to our local library (The Gosport Discovery Centre) for quite a while now. I decided to go in today, as I wanted to do a little bit of research on Rowner Church St Mary the Virgin. I had looked at the Wikipedia page, and that does give you some information, butContinue reading “374 The Library”

I said last night that it would be a few weeks before I would be able to start doing this. But that doesn’t stop me from planning, I’m going to spend a few minutes each day researching the topic of the week. The aim is to be able to do a 3-5 minute video. TheContinue reading “373 The Gosport Walk Thoughts”

I think this is one of the biggest sunflower heads that I can remember seeing. It’s growing from one of the sunflower seeds I’ve been feeding the birds. It’s really nice to see it growing. There’s something about sunflowers. They just seem to be so cheerful. We’ve got quite a few of them growing. LoveContinue reading “372 Sunflowers & Projects”

This month’s country walking arrived on Monday. I do enjoy reading it, especially when it features walks from my part of the world, which it does this month, it even talks about a pub that I like going to, which is really nice. This issue of the magazine features walks from magnificent parts of theContinue reading “371 An idea, a mini project”

The thing about bay windows, especially those on the first floor they should be sat in to watch life. I’m not sure how long this building, this window has been here, but I think (I’d like to think) at least a couple of hundred years. I bet it has seen some sights. Not far fromContinue reading “370 Bay Windows and Converging Lines”