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If the book is correct, the last time I sat as controller on the net was 30 Nov 25, well I did it again tonight. Dave wasn’t able to do the net, and I couldn’t stop myself from offering. My thought was that if Dave couldn’t do it and nobody else offered (and I’m sureContinue reading “1545 – Thursday Night Net”

I have been chomping at the bit to go to a full council meeting since the last one. I must admit that after tea it was later than I wanted so I had to rush to the council offices, which luckily are only about 12 minutes away. I did a little bit of preparation, downloadingContinue reading “1544 – The Council”

Tonights Camera Club competition was “Open” for our group, which mean that we could choose any picture we wanted. Mine was the header picture, which I had called “Reflect or photoshop”? Under normal circumstances, the judge would look at it and say It’s a perfectly good reflection and that would be it. But because I’dContinue reading “1543 – 9 and a Third”

I was out for my morning walk. I pretty much followed my normal route. I was quite surprissed at how few people were out and about. Even at the ferry, I did a little bit of videoing but apart from that and the Gosport Ferry there was absolutely nothing going on, no ships moving notContinue reading “1542 – Facebook”

As you read tonights post, you will very quickly realise that the picture bears absolutely no link to any of the content of the retest of the post, except perhaps the picture shows the underneath of something, but that link is so tenuous as to be ridiculous. We paid a visit to our Dorset familyContinue reading “1541 – Sunday”

I went over to Portsmouth this morning. Some of our friends from the Isle of Wight Radio Society came over and we went to the Royal Maritime Club for breakfast. TRhe RMC does a very nice buffet breakfast which I thoroughly enjoyed, especially as I didn’t have to pay for it. One of our friendsContinue reading “1540 – Breakfast & Bus Passes”

I’ve just had a quick look back at the posts I’ve made over the last week. Of the seven posts three are about reasonable topics and four are slightly more than just marking time. Well, that’s how I feel. The trip to Salisbury, the Camera Club and what we did on Sunday are reasonable posts.Continue reading “1539 – Marking Time”

Thursday Night is TNN Time. TNN is the Thursday Night Net. Conducted via a repeater on the Isle of Wight. Tonight, there were 12 people on the net. The question asked tonight was an interesting one; how do you explain Amateur Radio (AR) to the public. That isn’t meant to imply that “the public” isContinue reading “1538 – Thursday Night”

I managed to get out for a walk this morning. I know the title of tonight’s post says between the rain, and although it had rained at one point, I couldn’t tell you how big the gap was between the two rainy periods. I’m reading the Agenda Reports Pack for the upcoming Gosport Borough CouncilContinue reading “1537 – Between the Rain”

I went out for a walk this afternoon, when I’d finished for the day. I thought I would have dinner out as we were going to the camera club this evening. One the “You Tubers” I watch is a lady called Kim Grant, she’s a photographer from Scotland, and does videos that a kind ofContinue reading “1536 – Camera Club”