Category Archives: personal blog

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”

Almost a couple of years ago, when I started doing this numbered blog I can remember several occasions when I was conflicted about which book to read, and couldn’t make up my mind. I am sure that there have been several such occasions during my journey to bloggendum. Once again, I am in that positionContinue reading “800 – Two Books”

I’m being a bit naughty. I am doing this post way too late. I am too tired for a longer session and I don’t want to lose the counter by not doing a post. I will do better tomorrow.

An unusual day, we didn’t do very much. Last night I wanted to read a couple of pages of A History of Hampshire and I started looking for the book but couldn’t find it. Most frustrating but I found it this morning languishing a place where it had fallen. I’ve now managed to read theContinue reading “798 – Sunday”

The header picture isn’t Southampton. We were there, but not for long. I had eggs Benedict in a restaurant in West Quay, which was very nice. We did what we needed to in West Quay, including a good browse around Waterstones, once again not buying anything. Then we went out on to the high street.Continue reading “797 – Southampton”

When I came up with the idea of Locality, getting to know the local area, I was really only looking at the coastline between Hurst Castle and Hayling Island. I now acknowledge that was too limiting. What I really should have done was include Hampshire from the outset. Whilst it is probably a bit lateContinue reading “795 – Locality & Hampshire”