So Google Street View now covers 95% of UK road.

Like any self respecting vanity searcher, I downed my Search Engine Optimisation tools and spent 5 minutes (ish..) looking up my house, then my old house…. then the one before that… and then the one my parents live in. I can report one of my old houses has now got double glazing and a velux window in the roof and another one has an overgrown front garden.

My current house has got a tree with lots of fresh green leaves on it in the front garden (Spring-ish then)

Then of course I started wondering if I could find myself anywhere… I scrolled up and down the nearby high street. The shops were open but there were very few people about. It looks like it was a lovely day. Thought I’d better have a scroll along the sea front to see if I was out having a jog. Nope – though there were a few other runners about it seems but very few other people.

I’ve since been wracking my brains to work out where in Portsmouth there is a public digital display with the date and time on. We’ve got a display near our current workplace that shows the temperature (coords 50.797988,-1.106379) so I had a look there and apparently it was 16 degrees. Late spring I reckon then is when it hit Portsmouth and by the number of people around, I’d say about 9.30am (after rush hour and the school run has dissipated).

Damn – it would be so much easier to find yourself if they displayed the date and time that the pictures were taken!

Can anyone from Portsmouth think where there is a date display near a road?