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Today’s quite memorable for me in a trivial, but interesting way. I’ve now started reading Gilbert White’s book with its full title The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Modern versions of the book tends to drop the antiquities part of the book because it appears people are less interested in that aspect. I boughtContinue reading “851 – A Natural History of Selborne”

I am on my Christmas break. It’s quite nice, as I am now able to take a walk in to town at any time convenient to me. We bought Sausage Rolls and sat at the waterfront. No ships apart from the Gosport Ferry plying its usual route too and fro. The gulls were waiting toContinue reading “850 – Gulls waiting for food.”

It was quite a change today. From yesterday’s frosts today it has gone to rain. In a way, that’s good because it means tomorrow morning I will be able to see how well my basic rain gauge performs. The max/min thermometer I bought has worked very well. I was slightly disturbed though, to read onContinue reading “849 – The Weather”

We walked in to town today. We popped in to the new cultural centre had a quick look around which was interesting, and did make me wonder if they change parts of the display every few days? The cafe is quite pleasant. The British Heart Foundation has quite a good book section. I like toContinue reading “848 – walking in town”

As happens on quite a few occasions the header picture has nothing at all to do with what I intend to write about except to say that I haven’t been to the waterfront for a couple of days, and I thought that The Mary Mouse 2 was due back on her berth in November, butContinue reading “847 – The Aurora”

It has been a very cold few days. Several times the cold haas been below zero. The frosts, and this mornings frost, have been very heavy. One thing I was concerned about was giving our outside tap some frost protection. Luckily I found the frost cover in the garden shed as we couldn’t find anyContinue reading “846 – Hampshire History”

I have two days worth of data from my garden weather station. I am missing two sets of data; wind speed and wind direction the wind speed I can partially fix that one by taking my handheld anemometer out with me and taking the reading. I’d want one that gives the highest gust since lastContinue reading “845 – Measuring Weather”

I put the new barometer up on the side of the shed fairly early and then left it for an hour to settle down and I then took a set of readings and fed them in to the new spread sheet I’ve set up using the apple app Numbers. I’ve set a chart for eachContinue reading “844 – The start of the Journal”

M&Co is one of the clothing stores in the high street. As I was out for my lunchtime walk I walked past the store, and I heard a couple talking. The lady said “Oh no, M&Co is closing.” I hadn’t even noticed the two big signs in the window. This once again triggered a slewContinue reading “843 – The High Street”

I bought this today. It gives atmospheric pressure, relative humidity and temperature. Why would I buy something like this? I’ve written not that long back about the weather station in Swanage and the old devices that were there. I’d love to have something like that in my garden. Why would I? I’m not at allContinue reading “842 – I would like…”