Category Archives: personal blog

These wheels and levers are typical of the signalling infrastructure for the old semaphore signals. I confess, I have always found them fascinating. When I’m at a railway station, more so on my own than when I’m with somebody, I like to walk the length of the platform. In the past I used to watchContinue reading “1280 – The railways”

During our day at the Watercress Line Gala event, we thoroughly enjoyed the train trip form Alresford to Alton. We broke the journey at Ropley, the main engineering depot. I talked a bit about our visit there. I mentionned an angry little train, as in the header picture. it’s the little engine Kilmersdon. Every soContinue reading “1279 – Angry Little Train”

Elayne found out a couple of days ago that the Heritage Railway The Watercress line was running a gala weekend. We thought we’d go. We went to Alresford, my thinking was that as a paid car park, it was likely to be less busy than any of the other stations on the line. As itContinue reading “1278 – The Watercress Line”

This shows a small cargo vessel, possibly a tanker passing P&O’s Britannia which is on its way to Stavanger. We were parked up down at GAFIRs having fish & chips, well actually sausage but you know what I mean. It was the first time in quite a while since we last did this. Partly becauseContinue reading “1277 – Ship-watching”

The bell tower isn’t really leaning, it’s all in the perspective. The 11th of May 2015 is the date when I first came up with my “Locality” idea, actually it’s a pretty feeble name, but it’ll do the job. What it boils down to is focussing my interests on the area where I live. IContinue reading “1276 – Reinvigorating Locality”

My apologies for the brief post. Placeholder only. I will try to do better tomorrow.

I managed to get up this morning I went for another walk, the first time in quite a while since I’ve been on two consecutive walks. It hasn’t been the going out for a walk it has been the getting up that I gave up on. Now, I’m not going to pretend that I’m backContinue reading “1274 – The Morning Walk”

I went out for a walk this morning. It was a little bit chilly, but a very pleasant walk. There were a few people on the high street, and as I was getting towards the end of the high street, I saw a Brittany Ferry sailing by. I think it was the Pont Aven, definitelyContinue reading “1273 – Shopping Trollies, or this…”

When we went to Chichester yesterday (See post 1271), I only took a fleece with me. There was bright sunshine and I expected to end up carrying it. You’ll gather that turned out to not be the case. I thought it was reasonably mild as we left Gosport, but as soon as we got outContinue reading “1272 – The Weather”