Category Archives: personal blog

We went for a walk into town today. We took a slightly roundabout tour past the cockle ponds. It was very nice to see members of the model yatch club out racing. I’m not sure what class it was, but there was a bit of a breeze and the boats were moving at a fairContinue reading “860 – The Mary Mouse”

One of the things that I am trying to get in to the habit of doing is my daily one-off collection of weather data from the devices I have set up in the garden. Here are today’s figures (changes in the previous 24 hours); Date Pressure Hpa Temp Max Min RH Rainmm 28 Dec 22Continue reading “859 – Time at the bird table”

When we went to see the first Avatar film in 2009 we were absolutely blown away by the story, the imagery, and the quality of the 3D photography. It has remained until today by far the best 3D film that I have seen. I don’t know how many 3D films have been made since then,Continue reading “858 – Avatar”

On the left of the header picture is Rowner Church. The original church is 12th Century. Not the building we are looking at. In reality, only a small part of the church inside remains from the original. The Rowner / Alverstoke area has it’s own Mott and Bailey. This is a secure structure built onContinue reading “857 – The ages of Gosport”

This is the symbols my downfall at Christmas time, and Chocolate is it’s name. In this case Toblerone, but pretty much any chocolate really. There isn’t much I don’t like. People insist on buying it for me for Christmas and of course I can’t refuse it. That would be very rude of me. And ofContinue reading “856 – Fictional Chocolate”

The weather is with us all day, every day it affects us all. Many aspects of the weather are fairly easy to measure. It is possible to buy weather stations that measure different aspects and present that data to the internet. I am very likely to go back there. In the meantime, I am quiteContinue reading “855 – The Weather”

Would you notice if I re-used a photo that I had used before? I did a few posts ago and I didn’t notice myself until the next night when I wanted to use it again (must be a good picture). I’m not really talking the most recent episode, something from longer back. The thing is,Continue reading “854 – Would you notice If”

Would you notice if I re-used a photo that I had used before? I did a few posts ago and I didn’t notice myself until the next night when I wanted to use it again (must be a good picture). I’m not really talking the most recent episode, something from longer back. The thing is,Continue reading “854 – Would you notice If”

Today we visited Keydales in Horndean. I guess it’s a fairly typical garden centre. I didn’t see anything there that I wasn’t expecting. In general I find garden centres fairly boring. I acknowledge though that they usually have a nice restaurant that serves nice food. The other thing I like to look at is theContinue reading “853 – Garden Centres”

There are books and films that I really like. To the extent that there are some that I have re-read and watched several times. You would think wouldn’t you that once read, once seen that was it. But no. Even though I know what is going to happen, but I still very much enjoy revisiting.Continue reading “852 – Read, Watch, Repeat”