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This was a pied wagtail that I had seen whilst out for a walk a few days ago. It was remarkably tame. I could almost have picked it up. Not out of the back garden though. This time last year, I wrote a post celebrating the arrival of three sparrows in the garden. In birdContinue reading “506 A brief look back”

This is the Alverbank Hotel. This appears as Serial 1 (blue dot) on my Gosport map. I’ve been wanting to walk here for a while now, and managed to get out today. The walk was only about 5 miles but it was very pleasant. So, why does The Alverbank Hotel warrant the No. 1 spotContinue reading “505 Out for a walk”

A couple of days ago I commented on the size of the chimney stacks on some of the houses here in Gosport. The header picture is one which shows the smoke stacks in question. It suddenly occurs to me that the smoke stacks of houses could become an obsession akin to pylons. But, that isContinue reading “504 – Dis-Organisation”

If you look at the fronds of the tree, they are being blown horizontal in the westerly wind, around midday ish. I really needed to get out for a walk. I was determined to go regardless of the weather and a bit of wind wasn’t going to put me off. As I reached the towerContinue reading “503 – A blustery day”

We got up sometime between 8 and 9, and managed to force some breakfast down. We had to go and do a little bit of shopping, mainly getting Christmas cards cheap for 2022. As they say prior planning prevents a poor performance. (Well, that’s the clean version). After shopping, we sat down with a cupContinue reading “502 – Seriously lazy day”

The plan then is to get to 1000 posts. Let’s just see how things go. Yesterday was the day of over-indulgence that it should have been. I hope that it went as well for you, as it did for us. We had a bit of a problem with the bread machine, which two goes toContinue reading “501 – Here we Go”

Christmas Day 2021 is coming to an end. We have had a lovely day, and were very fortunate to be able to get together with family. I sincerely hope that you have had a lovely day, and that the coming year is good for you.

Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas, have a good day tomorrow. We certainly intend to try. We’ve just done a LFT that both came back a strong negative. Which is good, as I’ve had a fairly persistent headache for a fair portion of the day. I have to confess, I am a littleContinue reading “499 – Merry Christmas”

No, this isn’t the Abbey. We had every intention of going there today, just to get out and have a look around the derelict abbey. At about the time we were ready to go, it was raining. Deciding that it was a bit of a fair weather thing to do, we decided to put itContinue reading “498 Titchfield Abbey – Not Today”

We went for a stroll today, along Gosport’s Golden Mile. This stretches from the cafeteria at the diving museum at the western end of Stokes Bay, along to the Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS). It was grey and cold, with a gusting wind from the East, but no rain. For the first halfContinue reading “497 Gosport’s Golden Mile”