Category Archives: personal blog

This is from a few years ago I wanted to watch the cruise ships come in to Southampton. Of course I can watch them from Stokes bay, or Lee-on-the-Solent or I could get reasonably close to their course at Gilkicker, I just wanted to see them from a different angle. Calshot is good because itContinue reading “808 – Calshott”

The wall in the picture is called a ha-ha. I didn’t know that this was the name for this kind of feature. What is the point of a ha-ha? I got this from google;  to give the viewer of the garden the illusion of an unbroken, continuous rolling lawn, whilst providing boundaries for grazing livestock.Continue reading “807 – Books”

It has been more than a week since I last went on my morning walk. The really quite nasty cough that I’ve had is fading. I’ve secretly enjoyed not having to get up at 0535 and follow the same route that I have followed for what feels like five or six years. The deep frustrationContinue reading “806 – It has been a week”

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.