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The picture has nothing to do with the topic of this evenings post. I wrote a bit of a skit on a whatsapp group that went along the lines of I had a conversation with the Station Manager (my wife, Elayne – Radio Amateurs call their their partner “The Station Manager”) around some rubbish binsContinue reading “1618 – Frustration”

Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading the book about TED talks, the situation about the Gosport TEDx hasn’t been sorted as far as I’m aware, and that means that I am back onto the history book again. This Tim about the early Stuart Monarchy, with James VI of Scotland not yet crowned kingContinue reading “1617 – Book of the moment”

There may be a bit of a problem with the TEDx scheduled for Gosport in November. I don’t have the full story yet, and hopefully I will find out soon, but I had an interesting phone call this morning. A bit of intrigue? Possibly. In the meantime, I’m having a bit of fun developing aContinue reading “1616 – Gosport TEDx & The Bus Station”

I don’t have a picture that captures the essence of tonight’s club activity, so I’ve used one of the pictures I took on this morning’s walk. I must admit, when I took the picture I didn’t notice the ring of light arcing across the top of the ship from the tip of the Spinnaker. Anyhow,Continue reading “1615 – Camera Club & TEDx”

I went for a walk this afternoon. I wanted to try out a new videoing set up, it did mean walking around town carrying something a bit strange; monopod, with a bracket upon which were mounted the GoPro and the iPhone. The thing I wanted to do was get a record of all of theContinue reading “1614 – A Weirdo – apparently”

I felt “normal” when I got up this morning and that feeling continued right up until just before lunchtime. We had family around so it was going to be a big meal, lots of veg to prepare it was all fine, the family turned up, all lovely and good and then I sat down. IContinue reading “1613 – Feeling Normal”

several years ago, I bought a Gopro. These cameras produce imgaes of an amazing quality. Yet I have mostly ignored it. Probably because I think, it means carrying another tool (the camera). But in reality it is compact, easily fits in the pocket and not heavy. I don’t know what made me get it out,Continue reading “1612 GoPros”

I’m not sure how this snail got to the top of the bird table, but if it did climb up, and I have found snails half way up the post before, well done to it. I couldn’t bring myself to take it off. I’ll check in the morning to see where it got to. SnailsContinue reading “1611 – Snails”

This is a picture converted to mono of some litter that was thrown in to the Cockleponds, something which doubly annoys the heck out of me; the fact that people treat these lovely resources with such disdain and disrespect and the fact that for some reason the pictures really appeal to me. I can noContinue reading “1610 – Is There a Point V2 – Ooops”

I have been looking at planning applications. I wanted to see if I could identify any activities that it would be good to track (like the demolition of No. 8 (Poundstretchers) and its replacement by a block of flats. I’m going to have to vary my walk now, to track that. I haven’t finished lookingContinue reading “1609 – Is there a point”