Category Archives: personal blog

We did talk about what we were going to do today. We have a busy, but very pleasant weekend to look forward to next week, and the visit to Gilbert whites house last week went well, so we decided that this weekend would be a bit of a lazy one. We walked in to townContinue reading “810 – Lazy Day”

At 2335 last night, I woke up enough to recall that I hadn’t done a blog post. My iPad was on the bed beside me. I picked it up and then my brain said “Nope, not doing it”. I forced my brain to think of a few choice words of an unpublishable nature and promptlyContinue reading “809 – oops”

This is from a few years ago I wanted to watch the cruise ships come in to Southampton. Of course I can watch them from Stokes bay, or Lee-on-the-Solent or I could get reasonably close to their course at Gilkicker, I just wanted to see them from a different angle. Calshot is good because itContinue reading “808 – Calshott”

The wall in the picture is called a ha-ha. I didn’t know that this was the name for this kind of feature. What is the point of a ha-ha? I got this from google;  to give the viewer of the garden the illusion of an unbroken, continuous rolling lawn, whilst providing boundaries for grazing livestock.Continue reading “807 – Books”

It has been more than a week since I last went on my morning walk. The really quite nasty cough that I’ve had is fading. I’ve secretly enjoyed not having to get up at 0535 and follow the same route that I have followed for what feels like five or six years. The deep frustrationContinue reading “806 – It has been a week”

There were two articles in this month’s B&W photography that grabbed my attention. But it was more of a relationship between where I live and the two pieces. The first B&W article by Jim Bailey has some really quite lovely pictures of snow covered mountain regions. I can appreciate the beauty the pictures show, butContinue reading “805 – B&W photography”

I’ve written about Gilbert White a bit in the past. I’m prepared to accept that he has been a minor scale obsession for me for the best part of nearly eight years now. Just to recall, the best way for us to get to the north, having moved to Gosport was to travel up theContinue reading “804 – Gilbert White”

The latest edition of B&W photography turned up yesterday. I’m sure that Country Walking will turn up next week. I very much enjoy reading both magazines, but it is mildly frustrating that it interrupts my reading of the two books I have on the go; the history of Hampshire and the street photography workshop. ButContinue reading “803 – Reading”

The rotunda in the picture isn’t Roman, but you could almost think it is. The more I read about the history of the county. The more significant the influence of Rome becomes apparent. I’d quite like to pay a visit to Silchester. It appears that there is a lot of Roman history there. On ourContinue reading “802 – Roman Hampshire”

I keep on writing these posts where I keep beating myself up over one thing or another. This time it’s about my morning walk. I have been doing it for several years now. I must have done the same walk several hundred times. I have become a little bit bored with it. I think it’sContinue reading “801 – Too Limiting”