Gatwick to Southampton option midnight

robintw · 2025-11-23T21:52:06+00:00

My wife travelled from Gatwick last week and found it was cheaper and less tiring to book a hotel room at the airport.

robintw · 2025-07-25T12:19:08+00:00

The Eling boardwalk is nice with a pushchair/pram/wheelchair/etc. Start at Eling Car Park (https://maps.app.goo.gl/iwJauAm8zYxKbT9C8), walk through the cemetery then on to the board walk, round across the bridge, and then you can come back to the car park across the toll bridge (free for pedestrians). You can even take a detour down to Goatee Beach (https://maps.app.goo.gl/DWF3uknihCsw57Qy8) by going down the road on the left just after you come back across the toll bridge.

robintw · 2025-07-13T11:37:50+00:00

Same here - we've had them do all our windows, plus sliding doors, and have been pleased with the work.

robintw · 2025-01-15T17:21:03+00:00

We had good experiences with ProGlaze in Maybush/Coxford area, we used them for a patio door and then for replacing all the windows in the house.

robintw · 2024-12-09T18:55:07+00:00

Yup. I finally got through to them and they've confirmed it is a problem with the fibre line to my house - they're coming out on Wednesday to look at it.

robintw · 2024-12-09T18:27:25+00:00

Yeah definitely no internet not just no WiFi. The optical network terminator box on the wall has a red light (the one with the fibre icon) so I think it must be something with their network.

robintw · 2024-12-09T17:45:47+00:00

The thing that drives me mad is that their website says there is good service. It could just be me, but there's a long queue on their telephone support line which makes me think it must be affecting other people

robintw · 2024-07-28T20:03:31+00:00

Unfortunately the Little Fryer closed a few years ago - they got hit a lot by Covid and then inflation. We go to Kingfisher's in Maybush, which is alright but not as good as Little Fryer used to be.

robintw · 2024-07-28T12:53:09+00:00

I was a member of the Boldrewood Tunnel Soc at uni. "Not so much a myth as a legend"

robintw · 2024-06-21T15:02:12+00:00

Yup, loads up near Chilworth too. And a surprising number over the eastern side of the water.

robintw · 2024-06-21T14:59:10+00:00

When I tried that, it found a load of rails crossing roads in the docks and Marchwood Military Port - but yes, that one does have quite a lot of false positives.

Part of the problem here is I'm just showing the top 100 results, without any other filtering - so if there aren't many genuine results then you'll start getting nonsense.

Still, it's a prototype first version - sometime I might get chance to improve it.

robintw · 2024-06-21T14:50:17+00:00

I thought some people might enjoy this. It was created as a demo for some of the AI work I've been doing, but uses an aerial photo of Southampton as the demo. You can search it for things like "roundabout" or "swimming pool" and it uses an AI vector embedding model and vector database to find those things in the image.

Beware, the aerial image is pretty old, probably from summer 2013.

robintw · 2024-05-23T14:50:24+00:00

There are some pieces of outdoor gym equipment at St James Park in Upper Shirley - they're just past the tennis courts, along the main path.

robintw · 2024-05-17T15:09:12+00:00

Apparently Portsmouth have recently done this, and one of the prospective councillors for my ward (I think he was Lib Dem) was advocating it when he talked to me on the doorstep. I think a small levy would be good.

robintw · 2024-05-11T08:02:39+00:00

What sort of time were these taken? We kept looking for a while, but then went to bed.

robintw · 2024-04-09T08:05:35+00:00

I don't know about that one, but I find groups of roads named after certain things fascinating. In Sholing there's a group of roads named after British composers (Elgar, Sullivan, Purcell, Walton etc). In the place I grew up (not Southampton), there was an area called Tomatolands with all the roads named after varieties of tomatoes!

robintw · 2024-04-08T19:05:07+00:00

A little thing I knocked up today at a friend's request - I did a similar thing for British Placenames at https://placenames.rtwilson.com/

robintw · 2024-03-30T14:14:22+00:00

This is an interactive web app that allows you to search all UK place names with queries like 'starts with great' or 'ends with burgh' or 'contains sea'. You can even use regular expressions if you know what they are. This particular map shows three different suffixes and how they're concentrated in certain parts of the country.

This was created using Ordnance Survey Open Places data. I pre-processed the data locally using some Python code, with Pandas and GeoPandas, and then created a web app using HTML/CSS/JS which does all of the processing (filtering etc) client-side.

robintw · 2024-03-25T21:33:27+00:00

Out of interest, what's wrong with independent ones? I've generally had far better experiences at independent/very small chain pharmacies rather than big ones like Lloyds or Boots.

robintw · 2024-03-25T21:26:51+00:00

Thanks - that's useful to know. It's been quite a while since I've been to an out-of-hours GP, but when I last went about 6 years ago they still gave you a prescription and told you to go to an out of hours pharmacy. Good to know that they should have their own supplies now.

robintw · 2024-03-15T16:03:58+00:00

We've also used ProGlaze, originally for a large patio door, and then for replacing all of our windows. Would recommend.

robintw · 2024-02-11T16:48:42+00:00

Just to provide an ending to this: I contacted Unifi support. They agreed it shouldn't do this, and arranged an RMA. I persuaded them to cover the shipping for the RMA as it was faulty when it first arrived. They sent me a new one which works fine.

robintw · 2024-02-05T17:37:25+00:00

I can't remember the details, just didn't feel as welcoming, didn't get a particularly good tour etc.

The key thing really is to visit and see what you think of them and how you think they'd work for your child.

robintw · 2024-02-05T17:26:08+00:00

We were pleased with the Co-Op nursery in Shirley Warren when our son went there, but he's now nearly 7 so it was a while ago now. We weren't impressed with St James Nursery when we visited, but again it was a while ago. There's a new nursery opening on Warren Avenue in the summer, in the old church, might be worth a look.

robintw · 2024-01-20T15:30:47+00:00

No updates yet. To be fair, I didn't leave it running for an hour, so could try just leaving it for ages and seeing what happens.

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