Category Archives: personal blog

That’s what I am planning to do tomorrow. I have two things that I want to do. One of them is produce a bit of video. The main difference this time, is that I know what I am going to video, and a pretty good idea of what I am going to say. An unusualContinue reading “1736 – Some time in Town”

Gosport has a Mens Shed, at the back of St Vincents College. I’ve been up and had a look at it, and am planning to join probably in the new year. You’d think wouldn’t you, that given my aversion to anykind of DIY that joining the Men’s shed would be the last thing I’d do.Continue reading “1735 – The Mens Shed”

I am fairly frustrated with Facebook at the moment. Perhaps I should clarify that statement; I am not actually frustrated with Facebook, I am annoyed with myself over the way I am using it. It is not working as I wanted it to. That begs the question; how did I want it to work? Well,Continue reading “1734 – Facebook”

I really did want to try and have a good day and to be honest, it went far better than I could have hoped. I’ll be honest and say that I resorted to ChatGPT to find us an unusual day out. I do do have to say; “Boy, did it deliver”. Have a look at;Continue reading “1733 – We had a day out”

My main focus is Gosport’s High Street, that doesn’t mean that I can’t look at the other parts of town. Take, for example, the four blocks of flats on and near the waterfront there is a rumour (I’m not sure how accurate it is) that some councilloors in the 1960’s visited Moscow and were quiteContinue reading “1732 – Architecture – Part 2”

I went out for a walk this morning. I had intended to follow my normal morning route, but as it happens it didn’t quite work out like that. I walked my normal route up until I reached the Haslar Marina Pier Wall. I paused there for a while. I sat for a while and didContinue reading “1731 – Architecture”

I don’t really drink alcohol very much these days, in fact I avoid it for no other reason than I get headaches if I drink even only one pint. But of course, that doesn’t apply to alochol free beers. My friends whom I meet up with on a Saturday on Zoom, quite often have aContinue reading “1730 – Beer”

Lets admit it then. I’m not vlogging for any big sense of purpose of contributing to the charting of Gosports History, no indeed not. I am vlogging because; OK, having got that piece of honesty out of the way, now I can think about the kinds of things that I might to want to vlogContinue reading “1729 – Getting That Sense of Purpose”

Wednesday morning, I was out with my gimbal & phone doing some videoing and taking the odd photo – of conkers, shoing that they are nowhere near drropping, give them another month I reckon. I took some video as well. Particularly, one sequence that is just under four minutes long of me face to cameraContinue reading “1728 – Vlogging – severe frustrations”

The main ship in the picture is called Optimus. Her role is Bunkering. I have explained this in the past, but it was quite a while ago, so I think it’s worth covering it again. The term bunkering comes from the days when ships were by steam generated by burning coal, the coal bunkers neededContinue reading “1727 – Bunkering & Pigeons”