Author Archives: Bill

At the moment, I’m reading a book about how preparations for D-Day was affecting the local area. It’s fascinating and it prompted our visit to Warsash the weekend before last. I’m about halfway through the book, and am looking for mentions of specific locations, rather than “just” towns. I have several books lined up, oneContinue reading “544 – Books”

My desire to write, I think remains as firm as when I started the 366 project 543 days ago, even that was a fair time after lockdowns had started. I had no idea at the time whether I would complete that project (I was delighted to do so) and when I extended it beyond theContinue reading “543 – The Blog”

This is the wood for the baseboard for my model railway! I have it now, and I can start work on building the baseboard. I have a particular person top thank for this, I don’t think they read my blog, but I know someone who does who knows them, and they will pass on myContinue reading “542 – I have the Wood (for my baseboard)”

I can honestly say that I do not go around Gosport digging 4 – 5 feet deep holes, as much as I might want to – and why is that, you might quite reasonably ask? Simply to explore the geology of the area. Quite a long time ago I did my Geology O’Level (a nowContinue reading “541 – Geology”

There was a point on this morning’s walk as I was on the promenade where the only thing I could hear was the lapping of the water. There was no vehicle noise, no generator noise from any where, no bird noise. It was, just for a few seconds quite strange, but really quite pleasant. IContinue reading “540 – Walking”

I had a bit of a rough night and woke up just a few minutes later than I usually do, but wasn’t too late getting out of the house. I had another encounter with a town fox. I turned on to North Street and the fox was stood under the archway. Luckily, I had myContinue reading “539 – The Fox”

This was the Gosport Ferry Ramp at about 0615. I quite often arrive here at about this time. The ferries keep to a good schedule, I usually see the same people heading toward or coming off. This is still a fair distance from the halfway point of my walk, from here I head along toContinue reading “538 – Walking”

Looking through a fenced over gate into Fort Brockhurst. I went in to the fort during a Heritage Day a few years ago. The thing that really surprised me was how big the fort is inside the walls. I’ve just done a quick look back and before last Friday, it had been nearly 200 daysContinue reading “537 – Vlogging”

This isn’t a post about the history of Fort Brockhurst, one of the “Palmerston’s Follies” built during the 1850’s and 60’s to defend Portsmouth against possible French invasion, which never appeared. That’s it – end of history lesson. I wanted to go for a walk this morning, and I use weekends to try to visitContinue reading “536 – Fort Brockhurst”

I could write all sorts about the Rising Sun, but what I want to say is best said here; I had read in my D-Day Book that the pub was popular with service people from HMS Tormentor, a base just a little distance away. We went in and had a drink, and I thought aContinue reading “535 – Warsash, The Rising Sun”