Category Archives: personal blog

Once again. The picture bears no resemblance to the subject of this post. Last nights post, which I won’t delete or change was born out of a sense of frustration. We arrived at a particular charging point wishing to do a top up. With the level of almost paranoid caution I am experiencing with ourContinue reading “382 Doing research”

My wife and I have been saying for quite a while now that either our next car or the one after must be an E-Vehicle. Then we we received a letter from Nissan, suggesting a special offer. We’d had our car for four years, and thought we would go and have a look at whatContinue reading “381 A letter to Caroline Dinenage – My MP”

I assume that this is a scaffold pole, it’s the right size. It’s been in the water off the Haslar Marina Pier Wall for a long time. It was bedded in to the in to the seafloor but it was at an awkward angle. It could easily have been a danger, to anyone (illegally IContinue reading “380 Friday”

Out for my lunchtime walk following my usual route over Forton Lake bridge, up near the Explosion Museum, coming back I thought I’d try taking a picture of the end of the handrail, it’s one of those “let’s see if this works”. Is it the big white circle, the lines, the contrast with the blueContinue reading “379 Photography”

As usual, the picture has no relationship with the content of the post. The Book is; The Walker’s guide to outdoor Clues & Signs by Tristan Gooley. I was going to share a link with you, but it’s a long horrendous amazon link, that I don’t want here, possibly at the bottom of this post.Continue reading “378 So, there’s this book…”

Not strictly First Light seeing as the sun is behind clouds rather than coming over the horizon, but close enough. The mornings are drawing in. Dawns early light is beginning to catch up with me. When I had to go the dentist on Monday, the hygienist was talking about Autumn starting next week. I mustContinue reading “377 Morning Walker”

The Wilson Wisla on her way out of the harbour, heading towards Rotterdam. Don’t know what she’s carrying. I value my weekends. I obviously have jobs to do around the house, but once these are done and we don’t have anything organised, then I have some time to do what I want. I could forContinue reading “376 A bit mixed up.”

Why is historical research so interesting? Because you find out interesting things. Over the last couple of days I’ve found out about hundreds (they are an Anglo Saxon measure of land area) interesting because they are still used today in at least one very special case; it’s the only way a MP can resign byContinue reading “375 History”

I Haven’t been in to our local library (The Gosport Discovery Centre) for quite a while now. I decided to go in today, as I wanted to do a little bit of research on Rowner Church St Mary the Virgin. I had looked at the Wikipedia page, and that does give you some information, butContinue reading “374 The Library”

I said last night that it would be a few weeks before I would be able to start doing this. But that doesn’t stop me from planning, I’m going to spend a few minutes each day researching the topic of the week. The aim is to be able to do a 3-5 minute video. TheContinue reading “373 The Gosport Walk Thoughts”