Blog » Bill’s blog – August 16-27, 2009
Monday 14th September 2009
With Bill's sojourn to France at an end, Bill left at the crack of dawn on Sunday, August 16, taking nearly 14 hours travelling before catching the Euro-tunnel train, and arriving in Folkstone in the evening. The entire journey took 16 hours, with Bill clocking up nearly 850 miles.
Monday, and Bill got up to be faced with stacks of business and personal correspondence, which Bill tackled throughout the morning. By the evening, and feeling hungry, Bill walked to the Italian restaurant in World's End, which Bill says was a nice evening with lots of laughs. Bill continued to catch up on work on Tuesday, then drove out to Gedding for an afternoon spend shooting photos in the grounds, and watching football on TV in the evening.
With the sky clear on Wednesday, Bill was up early and headed out to a local metal detecting site, with Bill spending around five hours detecting. The result wasn't great: a handful of coins including an 1856 French coin, an Indian coin, a 17th Century thimble, and other odds and ends. Thursday was given over to photography in the grounds, and also to the first day' play in the fifth and final Ashes Cricket Test Match between England and Australia.
The next few days saw Bill watching the cricket – though he did speak briefly to singer Mick Hucknell – and taking photos (including the butterfly, pictured right). With the cricket finally England's way – England retained the Ashes – on Monday, August 24, Bill spent time metal detecting on a local site. Bill's haul included a large horse harness buckle, and around 25 British, Canadian and American coins from the 20th Century.
Bill also spent several hours out photographing nature in his grounds, as well as working on projects. Bill did catch the film Raiders Of The Lost Ark on TV (Bill says for the umpteenth time), and spotted a massive historical clanger. Bill says that as the film is based several years before WWII, the scene when Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones flies over Iran and Iraq is wrong – as Iran did not exist then, and was called Persia at the time.
Monday, and Bill got up to be faced with stacks of business and personal correspondence, which Bill tackled throughout the morning. By the evening, and feeling hungry, Bill walked to the Italian restaurant in World's End, which Bill says was a nice evening with lots of laughs. Bill continued to catch up on work on Tuesday, then drove out to Gedding for an afternoon spend shooting photos in the grounds, and watching football on TV in the evening.
With the sky clear on Wednesday, Bill was up early and headed out to a local metal detecting site, with Bill spending around five hours detecting. The result wasn't great: a handful of coins including an 1856 French coin, an Indian coin, a 17th Century thimble, and other odds and ends. Thursday was given over to photography in the grounds, and also to the first day' play in the fifth and final Ashes Cricket Test Match between England and Australia.
The next few days saw Bill watching the cricket – though he did speak briefly to singer Mick Hucknell – and taking photos (including the butterfly, pictured right). With the cricket finally England's way – England retained the Ashes – on Monday, August 24, Bill spent time metal detecting on a local site. Bill's haul included a large horse harness buckle, and around 25 British, Canadian and American coins from the 20th Century.
Bill also spent several hours out photographing nature in his grounds, as well as working on projects. Bill did catch the film Raiders Of The Lost Ark on TV (Bill says for the umpteenth time), and spotted a massive historical clanger. Bill says that as the film is based several years before WWII, the scene when Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones flies over Iran and Iraq is wrong – as Iran did not exist then, and was called Persia at the time.
