Category Archives: personal blog

Gosport is flat, very flat. It makes it good for cycling. It’s also good for walking – as you well know if you read me on a regular basis I walk the local area. As I walk around Gosport, I find things that interest me. Perhaps one of the biggest is history. Everywhere has itsContinue reading “649 – It’s where you live”

We spent a couple of hours working on the front of the house. It involved lopping some branched off a tree, and clearing up some bits growing out of the wall. In the past, I’ve talked about the kind of jobs I’m happy doing in the garden. Having finished that we had a bit ofContinue reading “648 – Out and About”

The header picture once again has nothing to do with the topic. This is a picture taken at low tide from the Haslar Marina Pier Wall. The rails and blocks you can see are the remains of the old chain ferries. It’s just an interesting picture. We had a day in London today. We droveContinue reading “647 – EV Charging – Again”

The picture has nothing to do with the topic, as is sometimes the case. Today, we celebrated a birthday. We did so by going into an escape room. I have done one of these before. I have to say that I was not enthused by the prospect. But, with hindsight as is usually the caseContinue reading “646 – Escape Rooms & stuff”

This is an area behind Trinity church which looks like it should be a stage, but I’m not aware of this place ever having been used as such. I’ll have to put something on Facebook to find out if it has. Having said that I don’t really do theatre. I find it difficult to explainContinue reading “645 – All The World’s a stage…”

The town at about ten past six in the morning. There was one person walking to work, and a couple of staff working in Greggs. There were also a few people waiting at the ferry. It was very quiet. I went for a walk at lunchtime. I wanted to have a look at the footfallContinue reading “644 – Walks through town”

I have a chart app on my phone that gives the tide for all around the country. Obviously I have it set to the tide in Portsmouth. Up until yesterday, the charts have shown an even frequency wave, sometimes sinusoidal. Yesterday, I noticed that the flood (incoming) tide has a step – the rate changesContinue reading “643 – The Solent”

When you pay a little more attention to a buildings facade, you start to wonder a bit about why it looks the way it does. Take this on me for example; what is it? 1920’s or 30’s art-deco? Thing is I don’t have an idea, but am now curious. I’ll have to do a bitContinue reading “642 – Architecture And friends”

I was laughing to myself as I walked past these three. They were totally engrossed in their phones, completely ignoring each other. I had the impression that they could be texting each each other, rather than talking. I was just going to walk past, but then I thought no, I didn’t want to miss theContinue reading “641 – How to ruin a good Street Picture”

Why is it that as soon as the weather gets nice, men (and it is usually men) get the urge to chuck chunks of meat on an open fire and try to cook it without burning? Is it because it tastes nice? Or because it can be fun? Actually, both of those apply. So weContinue reading “640 – BBQ Weather”