Category Archives: personal blog

No, the picture has absolutely nothing to do with sparrows, or my forgetting to do a post last night. Except a blind alley which is causing me a lot, and I mean a lot of frustration. I’m playing with a spreadsheet, and I am trying to do something with the INDEX and MATCH functions, workingContinue reading “1330 – A Treatise on the feeding habits of Sparrows (or how I forgot to do a post last night)”

I was looking for a general picture of the high street. I was very surprised to find that searching back through all of the pictures I have taken in the last year, this was the closest I could get. Gosport is like any town, it has its good bits, and it’s bad bits. I, personally,Continue reading “1329 – The High Street”

Yes, yes, I know. The birds in the picture are not sparrows. I started getting serious about putting hanging feeders out a couple of weeks back. I had been putting fat balls out, but the birds appeared not to like them. I admit, they were cheep. 150 for £17. Who would. Think sparrows would beContinue reading “1328 – Sparrows”

I would like to plan some blogging activities. In order to do that I need to do things. Like for example, getting up in the mornings and going for a walk on a regular basis. I can’t be 100% certain of doing that, but I will try. I continue to read The Plantagenets, we areContinue reading “1327 – The week ahead”

I went into The Range today (well, it was yesterday, but that’s part of the distraction, I’ll write about that in a minute) I was looking for Ericacious compost, which until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard of, and of which until a couple of minutes before walking in to The RangeContinue reading “1326 – The Discerning Shopper and a distraction…”

I have been reading The Plantagenets I’m at present reading about King. John, it’s around 1204 or 1205, John has lost nearly all his lands in France, and is becoming dependent on income only from England. I’ve been reading that King John is moving around the country, a lot. Taking with him a huge entourage,Continue reading “1325 – I had a question…”

I’ve never vlogged, video’d a couple of very short (what is the correct terminology – what would have made it easy would have been to say either; I videoed a couple of short videos, but that doesn’t feel right. I filmed a couple of short videos? Now, that “feels” right, but is it appropriate toContinue reading “1324 – I’m still not vlogging”

This plaque is on the front of the Alverbank Hotel, which is behind Bay house School, which houses the Marine Centre, which is the current home of the Gosport Society. The Gosport Society is not just a historical body, because it has close links with Gosport Borough Council and is regularly invited to comment onContinue reading “1323 – The Gosport Society”

With a risk of duplicating some of this morning’s walking report on FaceBook, it was just too bright to not get up for a walk. I went out in just a t-shirt. That was almost, kind of a mistake. The wind was cold, not just chilled, cold. I should really have come back to theContinue reading “1322 – Out for a walk”

The picture was taken at Lee-on-the-Solent, the closest I could get to Titchfield. Somebody asked today, why was Titchfield a historic town, and I had to look the answer up. It’s played a significant role at certain points in in history, it’s abbey was established in 1231, and was visited by Henry VI and wasContinue reading “1321 – Titchfield”