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I bought a book today. It’s in the Images of England series, and it’s about Gosport. It covers the period from 1870, when photography was beginning to take off as a commercially viable concern through to around 1960 looking at life and activities through the town. My thought was that I would quite like toContinue reading “570 – Photography”

I started the week by writing about which book I am reading at the moment, The Book of Gosport, just reading the first couple of chapters have given me ideas for a couple of videos, and I don’t doubt there will be more. Since Monday night, reading the book has not happened because the currentContinue reading “569 – Writing”

I was walking through town this morning, looking for things to photograph, and I saw this shop window and just took a picture. I have cropped it quite a bit. I don’t even know why I took the picture, but when I looked at it on the iPad there was something about the picture thatContinue reading “568 – Photography”

The ship in the mid-range of the picture is the Blade Runner Two. Normally when I see this ship it is carrying a single wind turbine blade, and the cabin is toward the bow of the ship. This is the first time I have seen one of these without a blade and this time theContinue reading “567 – It Rained”

For all bar two years of my education history was a favourite subject. I won’t bother With the two years, they were an aberration. Now it gets interesting, because I wasn’t particularly academic at school so, a lot of what I was presented with didn’t sink in. I am on a learning curve. What makesContinue reading “566 – History Writing”

I’m on page 36 of the book. It turns out that just in the first two chapters it’s an absolute mine of inspiration. I’m in the process of producing a video that features the role of Gosport in the Great Rebellion of 1642 – 1646. I went out this morning on my normal walk, butContinue reading “565 – The Book of Gosport”

It’s been a sunny Sunday. Even with a little bit of a bite to any breeze the might be about. Too nice a day to stay indoors. For the last few days I had a route in mind that I wanted to follow. I didn’t quite make it fully, having to cut it back byContinue reading “564 – A Sunday walk”

The book I’m reading at the moment is The Book of Gosport. As you might expect it covers the history of the town. The chapter I am reading at the moment is the role of Gosport in the English civil war (1642 – 1651) between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers). It turns out that GosportContinue reading “563 – A Script?”

I’m writing this at 2330. I started doing a piece much earlier this evening, but I deleted it as I wasn’t happy about it. Almost suffering from a bit of block. But then I got involved in trying to do some video editing in iMovie. Now I’m not going to say it’s easy, but it’sContinue reading “562 – Video Editing”

Historical research can be both difficult and easy. A resource is Wikipedia, now it obviously depends which aspect of history you are researching. Some of the more recent stuff is still subject to research. Something like the Jacobite Revolution though unless there are things still to be discovered the history is pretty much set, IContinue reading “561 – History”