Category Archives: personal blog

I would really like to improve my writing. How am I going to do this? Given that this is post No. 1648, and I have probably done a couple of hundred FaceBook posts, clearly I can write, the absolutely burning question in my mind is; Why am I bothering? Well, the main thing is IContinue reading “1648 – Writing”

Something, presumably restorative, is being done to the railway station, I don’t know what, but I will try and find out. Beyond that, the header picture has nothing to do with today’s post. Talking of today’s post, we took a trip out to Wickham, {I’m not sure if it is a town or a village,Continue reading “1647 – Wickham”

It was a video morning. I’d prepared to do a bit of video in the Falklands Gardens and it had gone quite well and I was walking along the esplanades past a couple of young lads, I reckon they were late teens, 17 plus, they asked “are you vlogging”? I said “yes”. We then hadContinue reading “1646 – A Nice Encounter”

If I say “The Backs” I suspect most people will think of Cambridges area from the town centre, a rather attractive part of the town, showing off the backs of the various colleges leading down to the river. Those are not the backs I am referring to. For my interest here are the backs ofContinue reading “1645 – The Backs”

Apparently, it’s an excess of carbon that make wrought iron more brittle than it should be. Back in the 1700’s this was a big problem for the Navy. It was possible to produce a higher quality wrought iron but it was a slow and expensive process. Henry Cort came a long as a producer ofContinue reading “1644 – Henry Cort”

I want tonight’s post to act as a bit of a reminder to do some little mini-projects like; That’ll do for a start.

I’m wondering if you found last nights post shall we say, a little disconnected? I wrote it more than half asleep, I was well on my way to the land of Nod. In the post I mention the intent to try an experiment. Anyone got any idea what I was talking about? Because I haveContinue reading “1642 – Last Night”

When I go for my morning walks during the week I share my time between two activities, radio or videoing. Three days a week are committed to the radio, and two to video, not including weekends o f course. I’m expecting to be on the #breakfastclub Monday, Tuesday & Thursday this week, so Wednesday &Continue reading “1641 – The Mornings”

I think from my point of view, it would be quite nice to have a plan §of what I’d like to write about over the week ahead. Now it may be of course, that something will happen that completely disrupts the routine (for example the starting of the demolition of the bus station would beContinue reading “1640 – The week ahead”

This was taken using panoramic mode. I took it for two reasons; To put the Navy mural into a context of the old bus station and to show the increasing dilapidation of the building, mainly visible through the broken windows. The signs have been changed, I think within the last two weeks to indicate thatContinue reading “1639 – Gosport”