Category Archives: personal blog

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”

When I go out for my morning walks, I am usually doing one of two things: I go kitted out for a chat on the #Breakfastclub. What’s that, you might ask? Well, that is when anyone who is a licensed radio ham and has the correct type of radio and is within range of aContinue reading “1726 – People”

I’ve used this photo today, for no reason other than it’s not a picture of the Spinnaker or of The Commodore Clipper coming in. Not that there is anything wrong at all with either subject, but I just happened to take this one because I quite like the way the sun glinted off the shopContinue reading “1725 – Just thinking really.”

This time last week, I wrote a post outlining a very simple plan about what I was going to do in the coming week, which I could relate to this blog. It only kind of partially worked, but I am going to persist. So here is another go at planning out some things. To beContinue reading “1725 – The Week Ahead”

First off, the mis-numbering I somehow managed to go from 1722 – 1733. I’ve corrected that now, and I just hope that I haven’t made the same mistake in the past. If I have, I’m not going to revisit and re number everything. I don’t think I have though. Sorry about that. I had aContinue reading “1724 – Today & Mis-numbering”