Category Archives: personal blog

A few posts ago I wrote that I’d had an idea for a book. I’d given up on the idea when the move to Dorset fell through because there were certain aspects of the county that were crucial to the story. The idea hasn’t gone away. Today, a book I’d ordered arrived, UFO’s over Hampshire.Continue reading “1420 – Hampshire”

A slight change of routine this morning. I needed to get a few bits and pieces from the shop after my walk – too much to carry. I drove the car to the shop car park and left it there ready for when the shop opened. I walked the length of the high street, oneContinue reading “1419 – Morning walk”

It’s not often I use the same picture twice, I try to avoid doing that, and usually if I do it’s because I’ve forgotten that I’ve used it previously. Tonights re-use though is quite deliberate. On Sunday, we visited the New Forest (as I said last night) but before we went looking for pannaging pigs,Continue reading “1418 – That Postbox”

This is a postbox in the middle of The New Forest, and is only indirectly involved in the story of today’s post in that it is within the area of interest of today’s post. More on this in a later post. The subject of which is partially about pannage; The New forest has an abundanceContinue reading “1417 – Pannage”

I do have a few people who receive notifications about new posts on my blog. To you, thank you for sticking with me. I don’t know where you are, but if you are in the USA and are affected by Hurricane Helene, I sincerely wish you safety. The header picture was taken a couple ofContinue reading “1416 – Here comes Autumn”

I’m really tired so this is going to be a very short post. It’s the alverstoke Michaelmas day, marking a particular point.

OK, I wear glasses. I had an email today inviting me to book my next routine test. That’s fine, I’ll go ahead and book. Normally, I go to one of the large chains, but… I would very much like a pair of rimless half moon reading glasses. I spend a lot of time with theContinue reading “1414 – Half Moon Glasses”

At writing a post tonight, I ended up deleting everything. It wasn’t a lot, only a couple sentences, but I really wasn’t confident about what I was writing, so it was best left unsaid – at least publicly anyway. Beyond that, there really wasn’t anything that was driving my writing tonight. Well, that’s not strictlyContinue reading “1413 – After a couple of attempts”

It’s all down to the planning. Earlier on on this blog, I had a thing where I had a rough idea of what topic I should be writing about on any particular evening, whether it be the waterfront, writing about writing, the weather the latest book that kind of thing. I lost it a whileContinue reading “1412 – writing”

As you might expect, the Hampshire Archives contains an absolute wealth of information about Gosport. I’ve asked for a quote on the reproduction of The Gosport & Alverstoke Minute Book for 1894 – 1897. I think that that time frame might cover the dispute between Gosport & Alverstoke as whether it should be Gosport &Continue reading “1411 – What was happening?”