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After the mess/mix up over the weekend, it’s nice to be back on track. Once I am past tomorrows milestone I think I will be able to get on with my normal meanderings. There’s reading of course, I’m getting my fiction mostly at lunchtimes when I listen to my audio books. I’ve re-visited a lotContinue reading “999 – Back on track”

I have an excuse for messing things up. My step-son invited me along on his stag do, even though I’m a grumpy old so-send-so. He had a good time, enjoyed himself with good friends, and didn’t end up in a mail sack on the midnight train to Edinburgh. But, what it has done is messedContinue reading “997 – what do I do now?”

This is a scheduled post to make sure I keep the count going.

It had been a normal walk until I arrived at the cockle pond. Normally there is quite a large crowd of jelly fish in the south east corner so I was disappointed to see only a few in the corner. Unusually there was a person ahead of me and they were stood looking into theContinue reading “996 – Jelly Fish”

It certainly is not the life style that attracts me, I have absolutely no desire to experience life in that era, four thousand years ago. It must have been harsh and brutal but at the same time a society was forming. That society gave rise to farming, an people living in homes rather than caves.Continue reading “995 – Megalithic”

This is the fourth time that I’ve written about committees since starting this blog series. I’ve just reviewed them. They become increasingly pessimistic as time goes on. It’s my fault because of my compulsion to become involved. I need to learn to resist that. One thing I am pretty sure of is that when weContinue reading “994 – committees – again”

I had a strange dream last night. I’m not going to go into details here but it was sufficiently disturbing that at the point the dream ended I was wide awake feeling a bit disturbed. I had trouble getting back to sleep, but eventually I did. The next thing I knew it was 5AM. IContinue reading “993 – Today”

The picture was taken a couple of years ago. The power station has since been demolished, and the weather was much calmer today. We both wanted to get out of the house for a while, so we quickly put together a packed lunch and drove out. It was a very pleasant couple of hours. ThereContinue reading “992 – Hillhead”

From a military point of view, Gosport has quite an extensive diving history through the submarine base, HMS Dolphin. The Escape tower is a major skyline feature of the town even today although it closed down a few years ago. I’ve just been looking at my photos and am surprised to find that I don’tContinue reading “991 – The Diving Museum”

This morning, I have to confess that I wanted it to be raining so that I didn’t have to get up and go for a walk. Of course, it wasn’t and I did get up and I did go for a walk and of course I was glad that I did. Not that anything spectacularContinue reading “990 – Random stuff”