I have enough space on the wall in my office to put up a personalised Ordnance Survey. I have two at the moment, one for the area where I live now, and one for a part of Dorset that I do know, but want to become even more familiar with.
That’s the problem; enough space for one, and two maps that I want to change around. This has been frustrating me a lot recently. Yesterday, I had a bit of a flash and came up with a potential solution to my problem. Within a few minutes, I had ordered a cork display board that was I thought quite cheap.
Lo and behold, the board turned up today. I have to confess that I was a bit daunted by how big it was, but it is the right size, so there it goes. I haven’t mounted the map yet, but will do so tomorrow. Quite reasonably, you could ask why?
Well, it feeds into my current obsession with Ley Lines. I said it before, but just in case you think I am mad, I fully accept that Ley lines are fiction, but I kind of think wouldn’t it be nice if they weren’t? It doesn’t stop me from exploring the concept, and I haven’t forgotten my book idea (a kind of science Fiction / Fantasy).
I’ve also commented before; when you examine a map of Dorset, definitely in the countryside there are very few grid squares that don’t contain some prehistoric feature such as a barrow (tumuli), stones or stone circles or something else. I would love to explore some of those. I have found very few videos on YouTube. I want to explore this and at the same time practice my vlogging.
I’d like to at least be confident about speaking to camera before I start exploring Dorset. My thought was to use the Gosport map to look for alignments – I’m going to make these up, for example by drawing a line between two important features and seeing what falls that line and then film a video about it. It’ll give me an excuse (not that I need one) to explore the town even more, and you never know what I might find. Either way, it’ll be a bit of fun, and my confidence will hopefully grow, as will my video skills.
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