Category Archives: personal blog

It is very unusual if I don’t take a photo when I go out for a walk. To be honest, I haven’t given much thought to the practice of taking a picture, or the tool that I use to do so. As I was sorting out t somethings in the office, I found the cableContinue reading “917 – Photography”

We spent a couple of hours in the garden today. It’s the first time since towards the beginning of December, when we had the last brown bin collection of 2022. Today’s exercise was mostly a tidy up and actually, I am generally happy with that on the understanding that I don’t actually have to getContinue reading “917 – Gardening”

Over the last few days I’ve had an idea of what I was going to write as much as a day ahead I enjoyed being in that position. Why can’t I be like that all the time? Those last three or four posts were focussed on a particular topic, I was able to plot, toContinue reading “916 – Blog Planning”

The thing about Thursday nights, is that I do the Thursday night net, on the Isle of Wight Radio Society repeater, GB3IW. Sometimes I manage to do the 365 Project and this blog entry before the net, which starts at 8PM. Most of the time though for one reason or another, I end up doingContinue reading “915 – Thursday Night”

Stokes Road would appear to be a bit of an oddity. There are some shops which cause me to wonder how they survive. But, they make for a fascinating hours window shopping. There’s the shop which has a 28 inch television in a globe case, I’m not sure if that isn’t from the 1970’s alongContinue reading “914 – Stokes Road”

When I stand at the waterfront that are the Falklands Gardens, it is strange to think that if I had been stood there three hundred and seventy odd years before, I would have in the middle of the civil war. With the Parliamentarians building a platform from which to bombard Royalist Portsmouth, and other nefariousContinue reading “913 – Gosport”

The header picture is todays Gosporrt High Street, taken from just north of North Cross Street looking toward the ferry. There have been many times when I’ve walked down the street wondering what it would have been like in previous years. Gosport was a new town in the 1600’s There wouldn’t have been much outsideContinue reading “912 – The High Street”

Today’s walk took me through the grounds of the Explosion Museum. That’s where I spotted this rather spectacularly decorated lamp post. The museum is an interesting visit, giving an informative history of naval air power. We have been around the museum, but not today. Carrying on with the walk, took me through Clarence yard. LiterallyContinue reading “911 – Out for a walk”

I am sat at the keyboard, stuck as to what to write. I did write a paragraph about wanting to do some videos, and possibly putting them on YouTube, but I ended up deleting it as it sounded very pretentious, I didn’t like it. I’ve been harping on about doing videos for many months. LikeContinue reading “910 – YouTube”

I got my bus pass today. I thought it would be inteeresting to see where I could go practically in a day? When we were travelling to Oxfordshire last week, we passed Highclere Castle, the home (to me, and I suspect several million other people) of Downton Abbey. Can I get to Highclere on theContinue reading “909 – Bus Routes”