Category Archives: personal blog

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?”

The thing is, I’d quite like some kind of research project. I’m not sure what, but it might be something along the lines of “The politics of Gosport between 1970 and 2000”, or it might be Gosport in the 17th Century. It’s just the thought of doing a project greatly appeals to me. Which isContinue reading “1410 – Deciding – or at least trying to.”

I learned something new today, something which should have been so obvious, but had never occurred to me. The idea of postal history. Elayne’s side of the family have some very keen philatelists, very knowledgable, to the extent that they make a living out of it. Today, I was introduced to Postal History. We wentContinue reading “1409 – Saturday”

The Waverley is a paddle steamer that goes around the country giving pleasure rides. I’ve never seen her before but I did know about her. This is the first time that I have ever seen her. She looked lovely, and she was moving surprisingly quickly. I’m really sorry, but I am feeling exceptionally tired, soContinue reading “1408 – The Waverley”

It’s a bit like the shopping trolleys in the cockle ponds – why would somebody do that? A Burger King cup discarded in the hedge between Trinity Church and the Millennium sundial at the waterfront. The nearest Burger King is in Gun Wharf. If not from there, it’s either Fareham or Commercial Road in Portsmouth,Continue reading “1407 – What? Why?”