Category Archives: personal blog

Pretty much every day since the beginnings of lockdown in 2020 (March I think it was, so we aren’t that far off three years ago – unreal anyhow, back to facebook) I have been doing a post on Facebook. It would be a bit of a daily diary, what I saw on my morning walk,Continue reading “832 – Facebook”

Here’s another post that I’ve left too late in the evening to do a good post . I usually get stuck at this time of day and my brain goes blank. Today though, I at least had a partial idea. I’d reached the point in the Hampshire history book where Gosport is “born” Even toContinue reading “831 – a bit of history”

I went for a walk today. Not too far, only a couple of miles just down to the waterfront. It was a bit rainy. Not very rainy, but enough that I was grateful for my proper raincoat. There were a couple of things that kind of got me the first how busy was the highContinue reading “830 – out for a walk”

There are three (possibly soon to be four) books, of which I am reading one page a day (don’t ask why, I couldn’t explain, I just am). They are; Tonights focus (for a little while at least) isgoing to be on Gilbert Whites Journals. On the his journal for the 26th of February 1769, GilbertContinue reading “829 – Light Pollution”

My brain can be incredibly stubborn sometimes. Every so often it lets me have glimpse, the merest glance of an idea, fleeting, popping in to my head and then hailing off to the left or the right laughing maniacally. The idea? Well for a book of course, what else do I obsess about? It’s notContinue reading “828 – That book, still there”

When I learned to read, I needed reading material. My sister’s book case served that need for a while. Famous Five mainly, but there was one other book as well. I can’t remember the title, I can’t remember the author. It was a science fiction. I have been looking for this book for literally decades.Continue reading “827 – Somewhere, there is a book.”

I should have realised that something was wrong. The wordpress app was doing unusual things, being quite bouncy. Then I did do a reset and there were two entries (last nights) with the same name and time. But apart from the title, picture and two empty blocks no sign of the three paragraphs I hadContinue reading “826 – Frustrating”

Ok, that is really annoying. For some reason, the post I wrote about the histories of Dorset an Hampshire didn’t save. It has gone. I’m not going to write it again – sorry.

For the last three weeks I have not been motivated to get up at 0535 and follow my normal morning walk. It appears that the walk is one of the few forums of exercise that I do to keep me anywhere near fit is not sufficient motivation. This is really not good enough. I needContinue reading “824 – Motivation”

I have to confess I felt more than a bit disgruntled this morning. I have no idea why, I thought that perhaps a stroll in to town might help. I took a very slow cruise down the high street. Whilst I didn’t take any pictures on the high street I was looking for interesting people,Continue reading “823 – Feeling a bit off”