The Bunker: Friday 31st July, 2026
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨 This is the first new frontage to The Bunker since we have returned from Portugal. The rocks above which The Bunker sits have been a...
Crossing The Threshold
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Yesterday’s Rainbows 🌈
A rainbow in the morning and one in the evening. Can you see the white flowers in the middle of the landscape? It’s been a wet summer. Wet weather and...
SAL - The Floods of Alcácer do Sal
In February this year the small Portuguese town of Alcácer do Sal was devastated by floods. Homes and businesses were ruined as heavy rains compounded by rising water levels of...
A Close Call with a Centipede
I started this post over a month ago and thought that I had lost it, and then unexpectedly found it while preparing another post on the Pika platform. Hooray for...
Images Above The Pacific
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The Bunker: Tuesday 16th June, 2026
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨 This image of a part of the Bunker slipped through the cracks. I took the photo back in mid-June and am only just getting...
Welcoming Rainbow
A small, hazy rainbow welcomed me back to the island this morning. 🌈
Reviewing My Photo Taking Decisions
I’m a sucker for a new camera, photo editing or filter app (I’m talking here about the iOS world). A new one hits the store and if its feature set...
⌚ Well this is baffling me this morning...
⌚ Well this is baffling me this morning. My Apple Watch is charging at the moment. But the longer that I leave it on the charger, the watch’s charge lessens....
Even Hospitals Doze
This visit to Portugal has been dominated by my wife being thrown from a horse, fracturing her shoulder and the follow up care resulting from that. Very early on in...
✍️ Writing at 39,000ft...
✍️ Writing at 39,000ft. The joy and comfort of writing in the anonymity of an aircraft flight.
🏙️ I love wandering through cities in the...
🏙️ I love wandering through cities in the early morning, as the world awakes. The early coffee drinkers, the joggers, the cleaners preparing the offices for the day ahead, the...
Mission Accomplished
This visit to Portugal is now complete, mission accomplished (though I am still sad to leave). My wife had just had the stitches out of her shoulder, and we were...
A Job Suddenly Finished
I am sitting in a favourite coffee shop in Alcácer drinking a cold beer - yes, interesting coffee beans in this coffee shop - relaxing at the completion of a...
Reflections From The Road
A short post here. I came across the following two quotes while going through some old notes. I wrote them about a month ago while I was en route from...
☕ This is a coffee intensive afternoon -...
☕ This is a coffee intensive afternoon - one to get through a phone call to insurance and catching up with bills, etc - a second to rest after having...
🛌 My bed wouldn’t let me get out...
🛌 My bed wouldn’t let me get out of it this morning. It was a struggle which I reluctantly won.
Driving and Music
I am not a fast driver, at least I do not think that I am! I am not someone to try and get through a traffic light before it turns...
👨💻 Trying a test status post...
👨💻 Trying a test status post. The last attempt produced a crossposting error from Make. I wondering if it was because of two paragraphs? So sticking to one here.
Refreshing rain falls, After a hot day, Cooling...
Refreshing rain falls, After a hot day, Cooling the air with a freshness that relaxes the evening.
🤫 It’s ssssoooo quiet and still this morning.
🤫 It’s ssssoooo quiet and still this morning.
The Bunker: Tuesday 9th June, 2026
All credit to the artist(s) 🎨 There has not been much activity at The Bunker for a few months now. Occasionally someone will had a few words somewhere on the...
A Few Of My Favourite Foods 😋
Following on from Alexandra’s recent post Dishing It Up …, which was hot on the heels of Davey’s post Dish Podcast QuickFire Quiz, I am answering a few quick fire...
Wet Spring
It’s 1st June and the rain is pouring outside. As it is warm here the doors are open and the cooling breeze from the falling rain freshens the house. I...
Sitting with the Morning
The world sits still and quiet this morning. Not a breath of wind. Grey cloud hanging motionless above us. Bird song cutting through the air with an undisturbed clarity, conversations...