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For some reason I felt quite good as I went to bed last night, even though I’d had a bit of a rough day. To the extent that my brain was so active that it took me a while to get to sleep.

That good feeling continued to this morning, I continued to feel good enough to get up and go for a walk. I said as much in my FaceBook post, which I am in danger of repeating here. Given this is a more open forum, is there a problem with that?

There was an aspect to this morning’s walk which I really felt quite good about. But’s not sure what it was. Because of a dodgy stomach I hadn’t eaten for about 18 hours, but I wasn’t feeling hungry. I was though, feeling good.

It was a nice walk.

It’s quite nice having a project in hand. I’ve got a couple on the go. Slow time, there’s no rush. In fact on one of them I’ve kind of had to re-wind things a bit as there are a number of elements, and I’ve kind of lost track of things a bit.

There’s a book that might help me. I actually have a copy, but the edition I have (Ed. 4) is now ten years out of date, and Ed. 6 was published last year, so I’ve bought that. The older book can be consigned to the charity shop.

I might as well tell you that I had put my name down to do a TEDx talk, here in Gosport, the event is scheduled for September. To be honest, there was no way I was prepared for it really, so I was quietly relieved to be told last week that my talk hadn’t been selected. Strangely though, they didn’t dismiss me completely. I think it is something that I will have to keep on the boil.

There is one major event that I am starting to plan for. Not quite sure when it is going to happen as no firm date (Dbut no later than August next year, and potentially any time in between now and then really) – just to add to the mystery. Anyway, I will let you know when it is going to happen.

Breakfast at Wetherspoons doesn’t quite have the same romantic appeal to it does it? The breakfast was nice though, so that was good.

As I didn’t get into town yesterday, I made a point of going out for a bit of a walk this morning hence the slight deviation for breakfast. Being Sunday there wasn’t much going on but I could hear people working in McDonalds. No sign as to when that will open.

I stopped along the water front to ask a chap who had an electric bike with those ridiculously wide, almost car-sized tyres what difference they made? I was looking at his face, which was really quite battered. He said the make the bike more stable, but his face was as a result of falling off the bike at 20mph the week before!

There was a large group of people, I’d say about thirty on the field next to the cockleponds being taken through a Tai-Chi session. To be honest, I didn’t the town had it in it to do something like that. A nice bit of culture, and very nice to see.

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.