Bills Posts

I fell asleep, I woke up feeling really tired, realised I hadn’t done my post panicked in case I fell asleep again so thought I would dash off this feeble effort to keep the count going.

The title and the picture are nothing at all to do with the subject of tonights post, which is more about the position I would like to be in with this blog.

I asked a friend if it would be better if I had a single topic to consistently write about, or is it better that I jump about writing on what are essentially random topics?

Actually, I think if I wrote about the same topic each night it would be pretty boring unless it was something incredibly interesting which I am fairly confident that I don’t have.

What I would like is to at least have a rough idea let’s say up to a week ahead, what I am going to write about. That will need a bit of planning.

Elayne’s collection is growing. I have to admit that having encouraged her, it is lovely to see the delight on her face when she looks at her collection.

I get to help her doing a bit of research when we find something slightly unusual, take for example the header photo. Purely by luck, I think we’ve tracked down the producer, a company called Mirrette, known for Art-Nuevo designs in the early 1900’s.

Fascinating stuff to find out.

I’m told that the interchange is opening tomorrow. The outer fence is gone, everything is in place and apparently it is good to go for the busses to start using it.

That means the main busses station will begin to be demolished possibly tomorrow. The next phase.

Busses will be using the new stop on north cross street. I’m wondering how the busses will exit from there onto Mumby road.

Monday evening as we were coming home there was a lot of roadworks going on none of it related to the interchange, but I did wonder they would put lights on the north cross street that would trigger to give the bus priority.

We will have to wait and find out.

We went out for a meal with dear friends whom we haven’t seen for quite a while. We had a lovely rime, and have just got home (around 10pm) to the realisation that I have eaten too much and just want to go to bed. It was a lovely evening though.

Now, here’s a thing. I do not write about certain subjects on this blog, one of which is politics, certainly party politics. It’s just too sensitive and divisive. So, no. I won’t write about it.

Although there is a lot of party politics in local government, it’s slightly different because local government is something which is much closer to the people (OK, I know about taxes and the NHS and the like – not talking about them here).

I do feel that it is less remote, closer to home, at the town, or in the case of Gosport, the district council and at the county level. It’s where you can see with your own eyes jobs that needs to be done.

Who is going to do these jobs? The lot that is in, are they doing a good job? That’s what is important – are they doing the job well? How do we measure that?

Don’t ask me why I took this picture of a discarded piece of plastic in some rather yucky water on the portsmouth side, but there is something about it that appeals to me.

I used my bus pass today to go up to Fareham, I got off the stop closest to the Oxfam bookshop, I didn’t buy anything but did have a good browse. They have quite a good history section, well worth keeping an eye on.

I got the X4 I think it was to Portsmouth and got off at a stop near the shopping arcade (too small really to be a mall) and had a look at the London Camera Exchange, if money were no object, I’d definitely go for one of the Nikon mirrorless range, although I do quite like the look of the Fuji range, their cameras appear to have more traditional settings on the top plate. I’ll keep an eye out for dealer days nearby.

I did the usual hours (at least) in waterstones. This time though, I got a sandwich and sat in their coffee lounge and had a think about what I might be looking for, and although I enjoyed looking there really wasn’t;t anything that I felt I needed to buy – except one book, the defence of Hampshire which is quite interesting, but at £22 I thought was a bit expensive. I think I can get a 2nd hand copy for less than £10, which would be good.

Then caught the ferry back to Gosport, it was the approach to the ferry where I paused to take this picture.

I noticed that there was a sign up, announcing the new Gosport Interchange, it really does look ready for use, they just have to clear the fence line away. That’s something to watch out for, and then of course, demolition will start, and I some how think that won’t take long.

Elayne has a very bad cold, so we’ve had to change plans quite a bit. We were going to London tomorrow, we had a couple of nice activities planned, but they have gone away for the time being.

It all depends on how things developed as to what we end up doing. WE’ll just have to wait and see.I was thinking about my model railway. I had a baseboard which I’ve now realised is just too small for what I want to do.

The plan is to have an inglenook shunting area, set up in such a way that when I have solved a shunting problem I can then send the train out onto a loop and have it going around whilst i work on the next thing. The great thing. About digital control is that i will be able to control my trains easily. All i have to do is get it set up. I think I will have the transceiver on whilst i do that.

There are a few settings on my camera that I want to have a play with. There’s a particular area that im interested in up near the explosion museum. So i may take a walk up there to have a play.

Then, i may take a bus trip out to Fareham, or even pop over to portsmouth to spend a bit of time in the various book shops, haven’t done that for a while.

But there again, I may do none of this, it all depends how things go. We’ll just have to wait and see.

I’m laying in bed pondering what to write, kind of almost a little bit of writers block, as no particular topic comes to me for this evenings post. Even the photo, which I accept is a bit non-descript doesn’t inspire me.

Is there such a words as “Calendricaly”? It appears there is, it has not been highlighted as a misspelling, so it must be good to go. There it is then, calendricaly, this blog was started over four years ago, but as the posts are numbered, we have 44 days to go until we hit that 4 year-point. i think I rambled my way through quite a few different things, the blog is a manifestation of my desire to write, the variation in content is chaotic, and probably somewhat incoherent.

I’m really tired now, so flagging a bit. Shortish post tonight.

A few posts ago I wrote that I’d had an idea for a book. I’d given up on the idea when the move to Dorset fell through because there were certain aspects of the county that were crucial to the story.

The idea hasn’t gone away. Today, a book I’d ordered arrived, UFO’s over Hampshire. I think that book will become fundamental to my revision of the plan for the book. Of course, it could all be a complete fantasy and nothing will come of it, but it won’t leave my head, so I am going to play with it.

If my plans don’t work out, at least I will learn more about the county, and visit some interesting places.