2024: Recover or not?
So 2024 is starting. My health is still not 100%. Last year I had various tests including an MRI scan which was interesting. They give...
Category: Diary Entry (2024)
21st Jan: Incident with Foil Pumpers
On watch at NCI Stone Point on a windy day just before Christmas we were observing someone who appeared to be efoiling. However when he landed...
30th Jan: Centurion Industrial Park
On 2nd October 2023 I recorded the start of work at Centurion Industrial Park across the river from my house. By today, 30th January 2024...
6th March: Exbury Gardens is open again!
I’ve really missed being able to visit Exbury Gardens on my way to standing watches at NCI Stone Point. So when it opened from 2nd...
19th March: Exbury in the rain
[Photo Album from the day] I’m keen to see the cherry blossoms on the trees near the Dragonfly Pond since I remembering them last year...
22nd March: Winds at Stone Point
This post is based on a post I have just published on the NCI Calshot “Blog” which was, in turn, based on a report to...
26th March: Baltimore Bridge Collision
Switched on CNN on Tueday morning to find that a container ship, the Dali, had rammed one of the piers of a bridge at the...
26th March: Visit to “Coastguard 175”
Along with 11 other watchkeepers from NCI Calshot Tower and NCI Stone Point I visited our local HM Coastguard Search and Rescue Helicopter Unit “Coastguard...
28th March: Rough weather
heThere was a EA storm surge alert with a predicted 5.31m total tide and a Met Office yellow wind warning issued for Thursday 28th March....
18th April: Exbury Gardens
With about an hour to spare before I needed to be at the Scout Hut for the CPR/Defibrillator course I headed to Exbury Gardens, supposedly...