Bills Posts

Alex called me yesterday and asked what I was doing today. Beyond walking into town to have a look to see what was going on, I told him nothing in particular, at which he suggested a trip to a large local shop – seemed like a reasonable suggestion, so that became The Plan.

The Plan was scheduled to happen this afternoon, which meant that the morning remained free. That meant that I did have time to get into town in the morning. At least that was a plan until Alexa told me that there was a good chance of rain. It was one of those kind of awkward times, when it was too warm for a coat, and I didn’t fancy getting wet. So, I made the decision to stay at home. Well, as it happened it didn’t rain but it did get quite a bit colder, so that by lunchtime I was wearing a cardigan.

The afternoon plan pretty much worked pretty well.

You might reasonably think that after the last few weeks (since just before we went on holiday) so not far off as month, the only thing that I have been consistently keeping up with is this blog.

I’ve only posted once in Facebook, and apart from a couple of small clips, no video. Only a couple of walks in to town. You’d could quite reasonably think that I have given up.

Well I have broken a couple of habits and I need to re-establish them. Luckily, another YouTube video is about due, so I will have to see if I can do some work on it.

Just keeping the thread count going tonight. Sorry about that.

We went out for a meal on Monday evening. To the Jolly Roger. I had the Mixed Grill. It was very nice, we all enjoyed our food.

After the meal, we went for a brief stroll along the water front. We were just about to turn around when we saw this Brittany Ferry. I don’t recall seeing it before, so I got on to Marine Traffic to look it up. The Ferry’s AIS showed it to be the Guilluame De Norman.

Guilluame De Norman, or William of Norman – also known as William The Conqueror sails in to Portsmouth Harbour most days every week. What a magnificent gesture of cooperation between two friendly nations.

Of course, there is another way of looking at it, and I really can’t help having a good chuckle over it.

Tonight I managed to get to one of the between-seasons Tuesday evening walk arranged by the Camera Club. Tonight’s walk was around the allotments that includes the ones run by the wife of Steve, one of the club members.

The different style of allotments really needs to be seen to be believed. One holder grows only sunflowers another grows onions that will be entered into the annual growers competition at Alverstoke, they were most impressive (I didn’t ask about rivalries, so don’t know if any skulduggery goes on).

I’ve pretty much made up my mind that I’m not getting rid of my Nikon. So I took quite lots of of pictures with the macro lens on. Seemed to have worked ok but I won’t really know until I upload the pictures.

I am really pleased that I made the effort to get out this evening. it was well worth it, plus I managed to get my steps in which was good.

I was really glad that I managed to not only get out for a morning walk but also joined the #Breakfastclub which was nice. The walk itself was very pleasant T-Shirt & shorts weather. No wind.

I’m thinking that it is getting near time to do another Vlog. There will be some changes. IK’m not going to go through them now, as I think I do that every few days.

I even walked out to the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall I had noticed the tall masts of a ship that I didn’t recognise. Turned out to be the Training Ship Royalist, very nice to see.

There were quite a few jelly fish around, they are getting quite big now. I can imagine that I will go for a walk one morning to find that the sluice has been opened and the they are on the way to the sea.

About this time last year, we went to Thursley Moat, a nature reserve nearer to Guildford than us, with the objective of photographing dragonflies. I can assert with a high degree of confidence that photographing dragonflies without the right equipment, and lot of patience and even more time is pretty much impossible (the right equipment is debatable e- what is that). I think with patience and time I might be able to get a lucky picture. I didn’t, by the way, get any pictures of dragonflies.

What we weren’t expecting and what I did manage to get a few pictures of was the family event of the Elstead Paper Boat race. This is where highly competitive families build boats made entirely out of paper & other non-polluting products and put them on the lake to see whose lasts the longest before disintegrating. We weren’t expecting the place to crowded, luckily we had arrived in time to get parking spaces.

We did have a lovely walk around the area with the other members of the Gosport Camera Club, and after that retired to the Three Horseshoes Pub in Thursley for a (in my case) a lovely lunch of roast lamb and all the trimmings, followed by what I can only describe as the best key Lime pie I can ever remember eating. A deliciously limey flavoured almost mousse consistency on a cholcolate cookie base. Absolutely delicious.

This picture is there for two reasons; It is a living creature, it is not a spider. I do have a picture of a spider in my collection. It’s one I caught with a glass.

I had to get the lawn more out. To do that I had to move a couple of sets of shelves. Before I could do that I had to clear away the spiders webs. Which comes to the heart of the problem, I’m afraid I really don’t like spiders.

I will go out of my way to catch one if I find it in the house. This is not about that though. It’s fairly early in the year, and yet the spiders are going wild in the garden, there are webs all over the place. I had to brush some of them away, even that I don’t like doing, but I am sure that they will have built something by the morning.

As much as I don’t like them, I can’t help admiring them, and a proper spiders web is really quite beautiful. I just don’t like running in to them, and there are loads of them in the garden.

This walk will be a bit different because I have to organise it for The Gosport Camera Club. The plan is through the summer quiet period before the 25/26 season kicks off, I think in early September the club will suggest a few activities, including a number of walks.

The next walk (not mine) will be around the Allotments in Alverstoke. Mow they should be quite interesting; perhaps some old sheds built in weird ways and opportunities for macro pictures.

I had the idea of celebrating the different styles of architectural styles on the high street.

I’m really sorry, I’m not going to type any more tonight, I’m falling asleep as I type this.