Category Archives: personal blog

My desire to write, I think remains as firm as when I started the 366 project 543 days ago, even that was a fair time after lockdowns had started. I had no idea at the time whether I would complete that project (I was delighted to do so) and when I extended it beyond theContinue reading “543 – The Blog”

This is the wood for the baseboard for my model railway! I have it now, and I can start work on building the baseboard. I have a particular person top thank for this, I don’t think they read my blog, but I know someone who does who knows them, and they will pass on myContinue reading “542 – I have the Wood (for my baseboard)”

I can honestly say that I do not go around Gosport digging 4 – 5 feet deep holes, as much as I might want to – and why is that, you might quite reasonably ask? Simply to explore the geology of the area. Quite a long time ago I did my Geology O’Level (a nowContinue reading “541 – Geology”

There was a point on this morning’s walk as I was on the promenade where the only thing I could hear was the lapping of the water. There was no vehicle noise, no generator noise from any where, no bird noise. It was, just for a few seconds quite strange, but really quite pleasant. IContinue reading “540 – Walking”

I had a bit of a rough night and woke up just a few minutes later than I usually do, but wasn’t too late getting out of the house. I had another encounter with a town fox. I turned on to North Street and the fox was stood under the archway. Luckily, I had myContinue reading “539 – The Fox”

This was the Gosport Ferry Ramp at about 0615. I quite often arrive here at about this time. The ferries keep to a good schedule, I usually see the same people heading toward or coming off. This is still a fair distance from the halfway point of my walk, from here I head along toContinue reading “538 – Walking”

Looking through a fenced over gate into Fort Brockhurst. I went in to the fort during a Heritage Day a few years ago. The thing that really surprised me was how big the fort is inside the walls. I’ve just done a quick look back and before last Friday, it had been nearly 200 daysContinue reading “537 – Vlogging”

This isn’t a post about the history of Fort Brockhurst, one of the “Palmerston’s Follies” built during the 1850’s and 60’s to defend Portsmouth against possible French invasion, which never appeared. That’s it – end of history lesson. I wanted to go for a walk this morning, and I use weekends to try to visitContinue reading “536 – Fort Brockhurst”

I could write all sorts about the Rising Sun, but what I want to say is best said here; I had read in my D-Day Book that the pub was popular with service people from HMS Tormentor, a base just a little distance away. We went in and had a drink, and I thought aContinue reading “535 – Warsash, The Rising Sun”

Vlogging! I haven’t written about Vlogging for quite a while. Just in Icase you had thought I had forgotten. I haven’t. On a Thursday night I do the Thursday Night Net for the Isle of Wight Radio Society. I’ve been doing it for four or five years now. At some point I started doing itContinue reading “534 – Is it Pretentious?”