We can’t go in the castle as there is a wedding on so take a stroll down to the beach – and back again as the beach cafe has a long queue. It’s half term on a very sunny November day. Will you find somewhere to have coffee?
Wednesday Walk – Zig Zag
photography
Specsavers
Autumn is slowly creeping upon us, with weather still too mild. I am walking around with my new eye.
There is a choice on the NHS between distance and reading, so I opted for distance and to have reading glasses. So now at present I can just about read with the old eye…
What happens when you get home? For two weeks no heavy lifting, gardening, keep fit classes or housework? For four weeks drops four times a day. What a surprise, the drops are Dexamethasone, the same steroid as in the tablets they give you with chemotherapy. This is to prevent inflammation. For people with other eye conditions like glaucoma there are all sorts of drops which they probably have to take for ever, so mustn’t complain about four weeks. The focus on eyes has given others the opportunity to tell me all about their eye drops, when they take them, which ones have to be kept in the fridge…
A reader in Australia enjoying a Halloween story in Pandemonica.
What revelations and story ideas has my new lens brought? I could be a better police witness. With cataracts and other eyesight problems, how many people are wandering around not seeing properly? That blind person with a long cane is actually someone walking their little dog on a long lead… the man with a baby strapped to his chest is actually carrying a parcel, the man standing over a body on the pavement is actually standing with his luggage waiting for a taxi. I also have a brand new television set which appears to be in 3D. I can read the straplines and hopefully those messages on the characters’ phones vital to the plot.
Of course I still rely on my phone’s lens…
Have you ever not recognised your friend walking towards you or misinterpreted what you were seeing in the distance?
Sunday Stroll – Local Artists
Where might we be today?
Enjoy visiting the gallery virtually, alas the exhibition is now finished, but there will be other exhibitions..
https://www.hampshireculture.org.uk/red-house-museum-and-gardens
This exhibition was open to all local artists and had an interesting mix of styles and lots of colour.
Which picture did you like best and which picture do you think grabbed my attention?
ANSWER – My favourite picture was …
I could see it on my living room wall and fantasized about buying it….
Sunday Stroll – Westward
Today’s stroll goes west to find a new artwork.
Choose rocket, cliff lift or steps (lots of them).
The cliff lift is now working since last time we were here.
Danger seems to lurk wherever we go…
Is this the most unsafe building you have ever seen?
Walk past to see it from all angles…
I haven’t been able to find out much more. It is called Lean Into the Wind and she is indeed leaning into our prevailing South Westerly. It apparently cost £54,000, though that amount had increased to a rumoured £60,000 among local dog walkers. I did get to chat to quite a few people who had all come to see it for the first time. Me and a dog walker liked the head… Everyone else thought it a waste of the council’s money, though it appears to have been paid for by the British tax payer. We all wondered exactly what it was about with remarks like ‘she’s got cherries on her ears’ and ‘she’s got a lizard on her head’. There are symbols on top of the pillars, which I couldn’t see properly with my cataracts... As for who she is, presumably she can be who you like.
So let’s go back down by lift or you can run down the zig zag which is fun.
You might hazard a guess what is going on down at the promenade.
Who do you think she is?
Do you like the art work?
Saturday Stroll – Meandering Mapless
Walk or scoot or cycle?
While you have been lost in the woods, aliens have landed.
Though nobody seems too concerned.
At last an arrow
Did you have any idea where you were?
Did you find your way home?
Silly Saturday – Strange Strangers
Time for a wander to look for useful things.
Do you get the feeling someone is staring at you?
Just keep walking and ignore them.
Did you see someone out of the corner of your eye?
Perhaps you should go and look for something to eat.
Don’t forget to pay for everything you bought.
What did you buy today?
Wednesday Walk – Harbour Heights
You may need a passport for this walk.
Time to descend
Mobile Bar
Are we stopping here? Not today, but it is one of the best Wetherspoons in the country. Have you guessed where you are yet?
Are we going in here?
YES
Anyone got one of these in their garden?
Carry on walking, I’ve got to leave you now, visitors coming, hope you don’t get lost.
Do you like walks with a destination, such as lunch?
Tuesday Travel – Tall Tales
I’m back home with new pictures and new blogs …sometime… In the meantime here are a few snaps celebrating the fun of train travel and trying to capture amazing buildings that my parents and grandparents would not have seen on their commute to the office in London.
Citrus?
Two Dimensional?
How would you like a balcony here?
Would you like to live or work in any of these buildings? Perhaps you do!
Fun Friday – Jolly July
Who do you like to chat to when you go shopping?
Spent too long chatting? Better check the time.
Time for me to go on a traication with only my phone. Find out where next week.
Can you translate the Latin or tell the time?
Monday Meander – Sun and Shade
Cool off on a Breezer open top bus.
But where are you going?
Are we getting off here at Boscombe Pier? No.
At Bournemouth Pier? No.
Where are we?
And who is this?
Find out later.
This way?
Or that way?
Feeling cooler?
Don’t get lost
Ah, here’s a sign post…
How did you get here?
With a long walk up the road.
And where are you?
Breezer Bus 70 dropped us off at Alum Chine Beach and we walked up Alum Chine then up to Westbourne shops. Don’t worry, there are plenty of buses home from here, or you can retrace your steps back to the beach.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg1p97v0go
How soon did you guess the mystery statue?
