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I don’t have a picture. Not of what I’m writing about at least. we were pottering about doing bits and pieces and Elayne asked me to do something in the garden. As I exited the back door, a bird took off showing a flash of yellow and streaking away with a bit of a squawk.Continue reading “1122 – A Delight”

Ok. So I might not have blogged every day, but I am trying to get back in to the routine of writing every day. I’m aiming now for 1200 posts, with 80 days to go, that takes us towards the end of the year, quite apt really. The thing for me is writing about thingsContinue reading “1121 – The Week”

We have a couple of Alexa’s. The one in the lounge is set up to give weather warnings, which it did for Gosport for tonight, when it is supposed to be absolutely chucking it down. It’s just on 10PM, and it is raining. I was then reminded of the beginning of the year, when IContinue reading “1120 – The Weather”

I haven’t written about photography very much at all recently either as a practice or as an interest. I pretty much always have the intention of trying to take at least one photograph per day, I don’t always succceed, by quite a long stretch especially recently. Taking pictures with my iphone is absolutely fine, especiallyContinue reading “1119 – Photography”

Depression is a strange thing. It doesn’t always manifest itself in the ways you’d expect. I certainly didn’t expect it to show itself as basically a withdrawal from society, I stopped going for my morning walks, I stopped going to my radio club. Stopping the morning walks were particularly distressing. I have no idea howContinue reading “1118 – Mist and the waterfront.”

I had to pop out quite early this morning. The first morning mist that I have encountered as we move well in to October. It wasn’t that it was chilly, presumably the air just has a lot of moisture and warm air is meeting cold. Either way, it was really nice to see. I needContinue reading “1117 – Morning Mist”

It’s frustrating isn’t it? You be doing something, for example I went for a very short walk this morning, just to get a bit of fresh air at the start of the day. At one point on the walk I can remember thinking a thought, which was immediately followed with that would make an interestingContinue reading “1116 – I had this thought”

For several years I would happily arise at 0535, get ready and go for a walk, only very occasionally varying my route. And then, several months ago I stopped. I had stopped for a few weeks during covid, but once the family understood that at that time of the morning. I carried, and then aContinue reading “1115 – Why not walking?”

I’m sat at the desk thinking about what to write about for today’s blog. I probably should write about the civil war again, but I have written about that several times recently and I don’t want the blog to become single topic. To be honest, I don’t think there’s much danger of that. Here’s anotherContinue reading “1114 – what to write about?”

This picture does not feature Portchester Castle. Unfortunately, I don’t have one that does. This isn’t a piece about the castle, it about books that talk of the English Civil War. I have a bit of a dilemma, I bought a book a while back by Diane Purkiss it draws upon the personal experiences ofContinue reading “1113 – Books”