17th Oct: Zig-Zag Contrails + Distrails
Some interesting clouds seen at NCI Stone Point in Lepe Country Park. On the 17th October there were these contrails with a marked zig-zag pattern...
Category: Oct-Dec: Another year ends
With 2022 coming to an end I still don’t feel completely fit. But going out to Lepe to man NCI Stone Point always makes me feel good. It’s an “office with a view”!
31st Oct: Stung on Halloween!
This is a longer version of a post I wrote for the Calshot “Blog”…. Around lunch time on Monday 31st October (Halloween), the Met Office...
12th Nov: New Fender Board
The original fender board, created in 2013 in preparation for Seatern, was an old builders plank which had drifted in on the tide one day....
27th November: Palais des Vaches
Went with Zoe and Wendy to the Palais des Vaches. Finally got to talk with Nicholas de Rothschild about Lower Exbury. It does sound like...
2nd December: Hello toob!
I finally got fed up with how much I am paying BT for broadband and decided that, with my BT contract ending at the start...
10th December: Sea Smoke on the river
We are going through a period of cold anticyclonic weather with sunny days and cold nights, sometimes going down to -5°C. On Saturday 10th December...
16th December: Frozen Shoreline
The cold weather has continued and looking out over the river on Friday 16th December the shoreline in front of Bitterne Manor Park was white....
30th December: Stamp swop!
The Royal Mail are phasing out the old “normal” stamps for new ones which have a sort of QR pattern down the side. I always...