Category Archives: personal blog

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”

I caught these two on their way out, it was almost like a race between them. I wonder if they were both heading towards the same fishing grounds? Either way, I really hope they had a good days fishing. I took the picture from the end of the Haslar Marina Pier Wall (HMPW). Sometimes thereContinue reading “629 – Fish”

Actually, the picture isn’t from the garden centre. Gosport’s new Garden centre opened at the beginning of the month. Today, is the first time that I had visited it. I must say that whilst access to the centre was by driving through a housing estate, it was fine. The facility itself is big, and veryContinue reading “628 – The Garden Centre”

Once again, the picture bears no relation to todays post. It is another from the top of Butser Hill. I went out for a walk today. I had planned to walk down to Gilkicker and around that area. Before I went out, I asked Alexa if it would rain in Gosport today. Her response wasContinue reading “627 – Those Forecasters!”

Butser Hill stands to the north of Portsmouth to the western side of the A3, the road you can see in the picture. I remember the first time I was driving along the A3, and saw the hill, and that there were people walking up the hill. That was probably around 2011 – 2012. IContinue reading “626 – My own Butser Hill Challenge”

I’ve learned that I can walk through the High Street at lunchtime and resist my brain cajoling me to buy food that I don’t need. today for example, I resisted the pleadings for pasties and chocolate, even though I did go in to Morrisons, I bought only what I intended to, and resisted the shoutingsContinue reading “625 – Fair Weather Friends”

I have a need to write about an experience that I had this morning that made me feel very awkward. It’s a bit sensitive, so please bear with me. Unless something stops me, like rain, I always go for my morning walk, leaving the house at around 0550. I usually follow the same route. ThatContinue reading “624 – That was awkward!”