2022 – Back to “normal”?
My “Seatern Calendar 2022” cover page reflected two things: firstly that Photobox had changed their Calendar format, and secondly, that Seatern had at least left...
Category: Diary Entry (2022)
13th January: Frosty morning walk
A beautiful sunny day started with finding some frost crystals covering the moss on the jetty “railings” which are designed to stop Seatern’s standing rigging...
20th January: Southampton Migrants Walk!
Searching the University web site I’d stumbled upon an interesting book: “Southampton’s Migrant Past and Present” and, having bought a copy, I decided to do...
18th February: Flood precautions
On the 30th November last year I opened up the cover to what I like to call the house’s bilge pump! In a flood it...
18th February: Storm Eunice
For storm Eunice on 18th February 2022, a Flood Alert for a maximum water level of 5.37m had been issued by the Environment Agency and...
24th February: Boats at Northam Bridge
Walking to Chessel Bay I go over Northam Bridge. Downstream various assemblages of “river gypsy” boats are moored in the area between the bridge and...
6th March: a “Hydraulic Lepe”!
In a previous post I suggested that the reason that the position of Lepe Spit shows up in the lefthand photo (taken in June 2019)...
Chessel Bay walks during March
Until recently, if I went for a walk I’d walk upstream (with regard to the River Itchen) to Riverside Park. However to get there I...
29th March: Covid positive for the BBC!
I was on watch at NCI Stone Point on Friday and Saturday 25th/26th March, the latter shift being to fill in slot needing a qualified watchkeeper....
29th April: Walk after Covid-19
Once I was clear of covid and tested negative I did a watch at Stone Point on the 16th April. It was 2½ weeks after...