Monday 1st march 2021

 

I can't believe it's the first of March already, time flies by.  I went up Lidle this morning and did some shopping for parents, there's still roadworks opposite the range.  I briefly heard drilling from Blue Boar Row last night, had to get off by the old army recruiting office in Castle Street.  Where Zizzi is now is where men signed up to go off to WW!.  My grandad signed up and lied about his age, said he was older than he was.

A meteor flying over the UK lighting up area's, mum thinks it could have been the bang she heard the other night; I never saw or heard anything?  It was said to have looked like a fireball falling slowly to earth with parts of debris falling from it.  People have been told not to touch the debris, it'll probably turn your skin green and hair blue then we'll end up with some ghastly alien disease from another planet.  The meteor was spotted just before 10 pm, so it couldn't have been the bang mum heard.  They said the bright light could be seen from Ireland to the Netherlands, I'd rather not know the end of the world was coming; eg 2012 disaster movie

I have heard some weird things during the night at Bemerton heath, like the squealing of a creature, but I reckon that was the owl hunting its supper.  

As I said, sodium lights are slowly disappearing from the streets of Salisbury and being replaced by those halogen one's which I think are far too bright, I shall miss the gentle orange glow from the sodium lights.  Dad said they were about in the 1950s, I often wonder what they were like during the 1930s.  I won't say the war because we had the blackout.

I love history and cried my eyes out when I watched Titanic, I have seen it twice at the cinema, I seem to have a familiar twang with the Edwardian era as thorough I had a past life during then.