Category Archives: personal blog

This is a new building going up near the centre of Gosport. A week ago, there was nothing above the fence line. After a few days away, it is always interesting to take a walk around to see what changes have occurred even in the few days that we have been away. I’m looking forwardContinue reading “639 – Changes & Empty Envelopes”

Today we visited the Roman Villa at Bignor. Unusually, as you are walking around the exhibition, they let you walk on the actual mosaic that was part of the villa. To think that you are actually walking on the same floor as Romans stepped in AD350 is just a bit strange. The villla is interesting.Continue reading “638 – Antiques – Really?”

I know I wrote about Waterstones on Saturday, but I am going to write about bookshops again. Today we were in Bognor Regis. When I visit this town, I like if I have a chance to pay a visit to Heygates Bookshop, which is located in the railway station. Visits to 2nd hand bookshops differContinue reading “637 – 2nd Hand Bookshops”

We visited Petworth House today. It’s a National Trust supported location. Now, I could very easily wax lyrical about the gardens which are another Capability Brown Extravaganza and they are really lovely, but what I want to write about is the inside of stately homes. A couple of years ago, we went on an organisedContinue reading “636 – Petworth House”

Sadly, I don’t have a picture of Highclere Castle – you never know, perhaps I will – one day, so you’ll have to put up with Pagham Lagoon. During the lockdowns, we binge viewed quite a few box sets. The 370+ episodes of Grey’s Anatomy absolutely gripped us. Inspector Lynsey and Frost both entertained us.Continue reading “635 – Downton Abbey”

I think it is to the constant perplexity of my wife that I find it very difficult to become in anyway enthusiastic about gardening. Whilst I can’t be bothered to get excited about the prospect of plunging my hands in to a bag of compost and transferring it to a pot for something which eitherContinue reading “634 – The Constantly Confused Gardener”

This morning, I took the ferry across to Portsmouth. As I was walking off the quayside I was delighted to see half a dozen or more artists working on their pictures. Like the person in the header picture, not all were focussing on the obvious subject HMS Warrior. I commented to one of the artistsContinue reading “633 – A morning out”

People – they are the problem. But first though, the rest of the walk; I heard that the Viking Star was coming in to the harbour as I was walking down Clarence Road. At that point the ship was at 3-Bar. On the approach to portsmouth there are a set of four buoys, labelled respectivelyContinue reading “632 – The problem is…”

Well, there’s a good bit of writers block at work here. I don’t know why, it was a lovely morning, the light, the air, the morning chorus, this picture which when I took it, I really didn’t expect to like quite as much as I do. I thought I would write about my planned visitContinue reading “631 – A lovely Morning”

Walking through town, there were workmen putting up the scaffolding. It’s getting to the stage that when I see something like this, I am finding it difficult to walk past things like this without at least making an attempt to finds out what is going on. I spoke to one of the blokes who wasContinue reading “630 – Building Works”