The months of August and September are probably the months of least activity within Gosport u3a. Most groups suspend activity for at least august. September is winding back up to full speed again. I’ve recently gon through a phase where I’ve done small presentations to:Local HistoryExploring ArtIGO Archaeology I have also agreed to do aContinue reading “2076 – u3a Summer Break”
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2075 – I should have gone for a walk
I was going to honest, but then I did that usual thing of sitting at the computer. On sunday evening. I’m sorry, it’s 2350, and our cat has just landed on my keyboard, and won’t move until I’ve given her a brush (the keyboard is on my lap), it’s so near midnight I’m going toContinue reading “2075 – I should have gone for a walk”
2074 – Nature’s Radio Telescopes?
I took this picture today of an open Passion Fruit flower. Luckily it haas a bumblebee doing its thing (look at its back, covered in pollen). The flower has been open for a few days now. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve looked at them since we have lived here. This timeContinue reading “2074 – Nature’s Radio Telescopes?”
2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV
I spent a bit of time about a week ago, dissecting a passion fruit seed pod. Gilbert dissects a bird and finds eggs forming and food in its crop. I don’t think I could dissect a bird. I can remember one Rural Studies lesson at school where the teacher was going to dissect a rabbit.Continue reading “2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV”
2072 – Put yourself out there
i’ve beeen going on a fair bit recently about vlogging, you might reasonably ask why? There is a youtuber, Rob the Maritimer, click his name to see his channel. Rob has set up a community, called Creators Cove, and issued a challenge to his 117,000 followers. Over a period of four weeks, issue three “longContinue reading “2072 – Put yourself out there”
2071 – The Book Shelf
this is a picture of a couple of the bookshelves that are in Goports Diabetes Shop. The book shelves are one of those areas in the shop that keeps me intrested. I have a similar picture taken last week. The difficulty is that as I only volunteer in the shop for one afternnon per week,Continue reading “2071 – The Book Shelf”
2070 Messing around
Those passion fruits look almost good enough to eat, don’t they? I won’t of course, but I am keeping an eye on them, and if they start to swell or drop, I’ll have another one to disect. Next year, I want to watch the whole process from budding – I missed that bit this year.Continue reading “2070 Messing around”
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2069 – Portsmouth in 1642
I have done a video about Gosport in the Civil War, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUoIZ8hpmaw The next video in this series is a video about Portsmouth, but not the military activity (in detail), I’m more interested in what life was like in the town during the siege. I’m going to have to go into theContinue reading “2069 – Portsmouth in 1642”
2068 – Just one of those walks
I had just dropped Elayne off at the shops, and was on my way home, when I had this thought that things just looked really nice and I very much wanted to go for a walk. Not a particularly special walk, just my normal route past the Cockle Ponds, along the waterfront and back alongContinue reading “2068 – Just one of those walks”
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