Author Archives: Bill

We went over together to Portsmouth for a birthday celebration we were going to a restaurant for a nice meal and then a visit to the cinema. We caught the ferry across the water in the harbour was quite choppy. Whilst it was a little bit breezy there was a continuous stream of small boatsContinue reading “1306 – Across the Water”

Jane Austen, Gilbert White and Charles Dickens are all famous or well known and were people with connections to Hampshire. There are also places that are of interest, a lot of them associated with the run up to D-Day, Winchester, which has a significant History, and of course places like Highclere which is famous forContinue reading “1305 – People & places”

This is The Manor House at Longleat. I wanted a picture of a really nice old house. I went on a trip today, it involved travelling on the A34. As I was driving along, quite near to Newbury, I went past a sign saying Highclere. Now, you will either know, or not know the significanceContinue reading “1304 – Thoughts on another trip”

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”