I had a couple of days booked off work either side of this weekend, and having decided not to risk storms and flooding on our planned camping trip was at a bit of a loose end for something unconstructive to do. Nosing around various “what’s on” type sites, we stumbled across Paddle Round The Pier, [...]
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Windsurfing Photos
mentioned in an earlier post that one of the things that attracted me to the Panasonic FZ30 that I chose as my new camera was the fact that it had a whopping great zoom built in as standard. What I didn’t mention before is that it has a neat little trick up it’s sleeve [...]
Bloody ITV
I’ve had most of my weekend planned around watching the Australian Grand Prix today. I flitted between decorating and working on the computer all day yesterday in order to free up 3 hours of quality grand-prix time, and had the TV & Radio off this morning so that I wouldn’t know the result before hand.
Much [...]
A day at the beach
It’s been one of those fantastic sea-side winter weekends down on Hayling. Cold but sunny with a good wind and some great waves - my absolute favourite for walking on the beach. With my girlfriend working all weekend I thought that this would be a good opportunity to try to get used to the new [...]
Winter Sunsets
We’ve been getting some fantastic sunsets lately, which have given me a great chance to play with my new camera. Can’t say that I have exactly mastered it as yet, but nature has been doing most of the hard work for me.
It’s great just to be able to walk over to the beach with a [...]
Xscape Castleford
As part of my birthday celebrations & visit “up north” to my sister, we went to Xscape at Castleford this weekend.
Xscape is sort of a cross between a shopping centre and an indoor extreme sports centre. The main attraction is a massive indoor real snow slope, although there is also a skate park, ice-climbing wall, [...]
Hayling Billy Coastal Trail
Decided to make the most of the bright, cold day to blow out the cobwebs and take a walk up the Hayling Billy coastal trail today.
The trail follows the path of the old railway line running up the western side of Hayling Island. The trail starts at the old station in West Town and finishes [...]
Portchester Castle
Heading home this weekend we decided to take a break from the traffic and get some fresh air before we got back to the island, so took a quick walk around Portchester castle.
My inner geek has always drawn me to castles, and Portchester is quite a nice example.
Hayling Floods
High tides and strong winds combined today to cause flooding all over the eastern end of Hayling.
Having got a call to say that there “was a river running down our road” I popped home with the camera to see what all the fuss was about and found out that our road had actually become a [...]
Black eyed Susan
As part of the Trafalgar 200 anniversary events at Portsmouth historic dockyard a Rope’s End Theatre Company, who we know several members of, put on some street theatre this weekend.
The play, Black Eyed Susan, was compressed to about 25 minutes and performed near the busy main entrance to the dockyard. I have to confess that [...]
