Category Archives: personal blog

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”

No, no – there’s nothing wrong. I think it’s more of a continuation of last nights post, where I talked about wanting to re-create pictures from the Victorian era. It ties in with my locality project and that involves me learning about the area where I live, both it’s history and today. I’m not usedContinue reading “560 – What?”

Over the last couple of years I have read a fair few books. Quite a number of them have been about life in the past. There have been lots of pictures of working people, in the fields or in shop, families in the home, people relaxing. I would like to re-create some of the VictorianContinue reading “559 – The way we were”

It has been a little while since I wrote about Vlogging. Don’t think i have forgotten about it. Some of the kit is very cheap and I now have the setup to produce videos of a reasonable quality. Now I did, and do have a plan. But its one thing to have a plan, itContinue reading “558 Vlogging”

When I went out for a saturday walk I noticed the owner of one of the yachts hadn’t furled their spinnaker properly. It was making quite a noise flapping backward and forward . I don’t think it was unreasonable to assume that someone from the marina would spot this and do something about it. ItContinue reading “557 – Yup, it’s the weather – again.”

Now, this is a bit awkward. The Rotary club is a very worthy organisation and I am sure that they have not done this intentionaly, and I acknowledge that the banner has been there quite a while., I am not sure when it was put up. But, I went out today with the specific intentionContinue reading “556 – I feel a complaint coming on”

It’s a bit unnerving when you hear the clunk and the crash of a ridge tile falling off the roof. It’s always a bit of a fear when we have a storm, but this is the first time it has happened. I didn’t go for a walk this morning, it was raining and I didn’tContinue reading “555 – The Weather – Again.”

There’s a bit of a theme tonight. Not unreasonably the weather has been a topic of conversation throughout the day, with the arrival of Storms Dudley and Eunice (I don’t know the order, which comes first). I’ve been lucky that there has been no rain, so I haven’t had my walks interrupted by rain –Continue reading “554 – The Weather”