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Misty creek and eerie fog
Nov. 8th, 2020 09:23 pmSo today started grey, and as the afternoon went on Fareham creek became very misty...
( Misty creek and eerie fog )
( Misty creek and eerie fog )
NaBloPoMo!
Nov. 1st, 2017 10:51 pmIt'd look very silly if I failed to post something on the first day of NaBloPoMo, so I'm not going to do that.
Even if doing so involves a remote desktop connection to my PC (because I haven't unpacked the laptop, and why use a web interface when one can use an actual desktop app with twice the functionality in a tenth of the ram).
Anyway. NaBloPoMo! I have several ideas and somewhat cunning plans for this year. I may even reuse ideas from past years (I never did complete last year's post theme, or the one before, or the one before...). But for today, you get entirely original content: ( What Has BoggyB Been Up To Recently? )
Even if doing so involves a remote desktop connection to my PC (because I haven't unpacked the laptop, and why use a web interface when one can use an actual desktop app with twice the functionality in a tenth of the ram).
Anyway. NaBloPoMo! I have several ideas and somewhat cunning plans for this year. I may even reuse ideas from past years (I never did complete last year's post theme, or the one before, or the one before...). But for today, you get entirely original content: ( What Has BoggyB Been Up To Recently? )
Path, life, theme
May. 11th, 2014 11:43 pmI ended up going on another surprisingly long walk today (the step counter clocked up nearly 10 miles), from Lock's Heath to Lee-on-Solent via Warsash Common, the Chilling coast, and Hill Head. For a change I walked along the beach rather than on top of the cliffs which suffered a lot over the past winter. There's a couple of paths I used to walk that no longer exist!
As usual, I ended up taking plenty of photos along the way. The question now is what to post - do I try and go for a theme, order them into a log, or pick a couple of my favourites? Or all three?
( Path )
( Life )
( Theme )
As usual, I ended up taking plenty of photos along the way. The question now is what to post - do I try and go for a theme, order them into a log, or pick a couple of my favourites? Or all three?
( Path )
( Life )
( Theme )
Let me take you on a journey...
Jun. 14th, 2013 08:33 pmSomehow, and not entirely unintentionally, this has become a photo blog.
These were taken last Sunday, on what started out as a walk around Locks Heath and Warsash and ended up with me walking all the way back to Fareham. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, but it mainly involved me getting as far as Titchfield Common with the plan being to get a bus the rest of the way... and finding that it was enough of a wait until the next bus that I could beat it there by walking. Anyway...
( Let me take you on a journey... )
These were taken last Sunday, on what started out as a walk around Locks Heath and Warsash and ended up with me walking all the way back to Fareham. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, but it mainly involved me getting as far as Titchfield Common with the plan being to get a bus the rest of the way... and finding that it was enough of a wait until the next bus that I could beat it there by walking. Anyway...
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Jan. 8th, 2012 09:12 pmI sometimes see the odd fox while out walking, usually in the countryside. Occassionally I'll spy one on the edge of a built-up area (like near Moulsecoomb station in Brighton). I don't think I've seen one right in the middle of town before, though...
I've just been out on a random evening stroll, and was walking along the main street back into the centre of town when a fox appeared from a junction in front of me. It ran towards me along the middle of the road, paused for a moment while we stared at each other, and then ran past and disappeared up a side street behind me.
I've just been out on a random evening stroll, and was walking along the main street back into the centre of town when a fox appeared from a junction in front of me. It ran towards me along the middle of the road, paused for a moment while we stared at each other, and then ran past and disappeared up a side street behind me.
10 miles doesn't seem that far anymore
Nov. 21st, 2010 11:35 pmSo, I decided to go out for a nice afternoon/evening stroll today, heading to Portchester and back via a rather roundabout route (up on to Portsdown Hill, come back down past Portchester fire station and the castle, then head along the coast for a bit before bypassing Cams Hall and following the main road back).
According to the GPS trip calculator, that was a total of 8.16 miles.
Actually, before going on the stroll I headed into town to do a bit of shopping which probably adds a couple of miles, so call it 10 miles walked today.
The strange thing is, I don't think of 10 miles as being a particularly long walk anymore.
Not long after I moved here I went for a nighttime stroll that ended up being much longer than expected, and I thought that was a long walk. Earlier this year I did the Titchfield 10k geocaching circular (about 6 miles), which combined with walking home afterwards due to bus times worked out as being 9 miles, and I thought that too was a long walk. So what's changed?
I think the real turning point was recently when after work I took the bug to Hedge End, with the aim of picking up a book from the library and then getting the bus back home. Well, I failed in that the library didn't have the book, then failed again by completely failing to find the bus stop for the last bus home (curse you, weird one-way bus routes!). So it was time to dig out the OS Explorer map and come up with a plan B. While working that out, I suddenly realised that actually, walking all the way home (which Google Maps puts as being 9 miles) was a viable option.
In the end I walked a couple of miles to Bursledon and got the train from there, but I think that's when 9 or 10 miles changed from being "wow, that's a long walk" to "eh, it's only a few hours".
According to the GPS trip calculator, that was a total of 8.16 miles.
Actually, before going on the stroll I headed into town to do a bit of shopping which probably adds a couple of miles, so call it 10 miles walked today.
The strange thing is, I don't think of 10 miles as being a particularly long walk anymore.
Not long after I moved here I went for a nighttime stroll that ended up being much longer than expected, and I thought that was a long walk. Earlier this year I did the Titchfield 10k geocaching circular (about 6 miles), which combined with walking home afterwards due to bus times worked out as being 9 miles, and I thought that too was a long walk. So what's changed?
I think the real turning point was recently when after work I took the bug to Hedge End, with the aim of picking up a book from the library and then getting the bus back home. Well, I failed in that the library didn't have the book, then failed again by completely failing to find the bus stop for the last bus home (curse you, weird one-way bus routes!). So it was time to dig out the OS Explorer map and come up with a plan B. While working that out, I suddenly realised that actually, walking all the way home (which Google Maps puts as being 9 miles) was a viable option.
In the end I walked a couple of miles to Bursledon and got the train from there, but I think that's when 9 or 10 miles changed from being "wow, that's a long walk" to "eh, it's only a few hours".
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Jul. 19th, 2009 08:53 pmThat walk was somewhat longer than I expected. Left the house at approx 4:40pm, returned at 8:30. GPS guesses the trip as being 12 miles, though some of that was by bus. As a result, my feet are most unimpressed.
For a change, I decided to get the bus to Portchester and then walk back to Fareham (usually I do this walk from Fareham to Portchester and get the bus back). Unfortuantly for me, it was blowing an absolute gale towards Portchester, and so I had to fight the wind all the way back. It was sufficiently windy that you could lean into it and not fall over.
But I found all three geocaches I attempted (including one where I walked to where the co-ordinates were, turned round and spotted it instantly), dropped off a travel bug I've had for too long and took some nice photos, so it was all good.
For a change, I decided to get the bus to Portchester and then walk back to Fareham (usually I do this walk from Fareham to Portchester and get the bus back). Unfortuantly for me, it was blowing an absolute gale towards Portchester, and so I had to fight the wind all the way back. It was sufficiently windy that you could lean into it and not fall over.
But I found all three geocaches I attempted (including one where I walked to where the co-ordinates were, turned round and spotted it instantly), dropped off a travel bug I've had for too long and took some nice photos, so it was all good.
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Feb. 17th, 2008 08:39 pmThis is pretty much how this afternoon went for me, except I only walked about 9 miles:
