Author Archives: Bill

I know that it is really only mid-week, but we are well past the midpoint, which I take as lunchtime on a Wednesday. Now we do, as it happens, have some plans for the weekend, but I’m not really talking about those. It’s more a case of harping back to is it a locality weekend?Continue reading “1303 – The weekend beckons”

I’ve been reading about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, quite a story really, and fascinating stuff. Of course the problem I have is that this wonderfully interesting history has absolutely nothing to do with Gosport. Indeed Gosport won’t exist as a place for another couple of hundred years or so, even if only aContinue reading “1302 – A conflict of Interests”

We’d had a really lovely weekend away, visiting Mark and Helen, I must admit I wasn’t looking forward to the drive on the M25, but actually it wasn’t at all bad. I think it’s one of the clearest trips we’ve had in a very long time. The car behaved very well, both on the journeyContinue reading “1301 – The drive home”

What an honour to be writing Bill’s 1300th blog. Today had been full of…….food. A trip to the 3 horseshoes in Gravely forced us to eat a range of yummy meat and a splendid range of vegetables. The only answer to this stomach extension was to sit in the summer palace and wait for digestionContinue reading “1300 – Mark does his Guest Blog Thing.”

A really quite relaxing day, not doing very much at all. We did go to a plant fair thing, where Elayne bought some plants and some metal works, which will be useful in the garden. I started reading the Plantagenets book, which is quite well written in that it reads a bit like a story,Continue reading “1299 – Saturday”

Through School,, but not through colllege, and then beyond that, I have always had an interest in history. The colllege thing is where it went a bit awry, but we can ignore that. I have been wondering what to doo with the blog, I was in Waterstones, and I had a thought. What if IContinue reading “1298 – a possible blog project”

Pre-history, according to my understanding, is what happened before written history. In my mind, I am trying to work out how Dorset has so much pre-history in comparison to Hampshire? Now that may be a misconception on my part, but when searching, many more instances of pre-historic features appeared in Dorset than in Hampshire. OnContinue reading “1297 – The Blog & Locality”

I’ve started writing on Facebook again. In the past, generally I wouldn’t do FB over the weekend, but since I started numbering this blog, I’ve done it (nearly) every day. I stopped doing FB almost a year ago, about the same time I stopped walking in the early morning. Having started both walking and FBContinue reading “1296 – The Blog”

I don’t know you’d call this place “a shop unit“? It used to be a charity place. I think they’ve moved to a better, bigger, brighter place, which in its own right is a good thing. The problem here is that you have to look quite closely to see that there is a broken paneContinue reading “1295 – Dereliction”

I think there is one area of Gosport’s services that I think does a pretty good job. Gosport StreetScene. The organisation is part of Gosport Borough Council. I’ve contacted Street Scene a few times, initially it was about abandoned shopping trollies There are hotspots for abandoned trolleys around town, and I used to report them.Continue reading “1294 – Gosports Flower Beds”