Category Archives: personal blog

Depression is a strange thing. It doesn’t always manifest itself in the ways you’d expect. I certainly didn’t expect it to show itself as basically a withdrawal from society, I stopped going for my morning walks, I stopped going to my radio club. Stopping the morning walks were particularly distressing. I have no idea howContinue reading “1118 – Mist and the waterfront.”

I had to pop out quite early this morning. The first morning mist that I have encountered as we move well in to October. It wasn’t that it was chilly, presumably the air just has a lot of moisture and warm air is meeting cold. Either way, it was really nice to see. I needContinue reading “1117 – Morning Mist”

It’s frustrating isn’t it? You be doing something, for example I went for a very short walk this morning, just to get a bit of fresh air at the start of the day. At one point on the walk I can remember thinking a thought, which was immediately followed with that would make an interestingContinue reading “1116 – I had this thought”

For several years I would happily arise at 0535, get ready and go for a walk, only very occasionally varying my route. And then, several months ago I stopped. I had stopped for a few weeks during covid, but once the family understood that at that time of the morning. I carried, and then aContinue reading “1115 – Why not walking?”

I’m sat at the desk thinking about what to write about for today’s blog. I probably should write about the civil war again, but I have written about that several times recently and I don’t want the blog to become single topic. To be honest, I don’t think there’s much danger of that. Here’s anotherContinue reading “1114 – what to write about?”

This picture does not feature Portchester Castle. Unfortunately, I don’t have one that does. This isn’t a piece about the castle, it about books that talk of the English Civil War. I have a bit of a dilemma, I bought a book a while back by Diane Purkiss it draws upon the personal experiences ofContinue reading “1113 – Books”

I haven’t done a post for a few days. I just haven’t felt like it. Tonight’s post is going not much better I’m afraid sorry about that. I’ll slowly try and get back to normal. Just bear with me.

You know when you watch a Science Fiction movie and that astronauts are all in their seats waiting blast off, and just before they go their chairs tilt over slowly, so that they are on their backs with their legs up ready to go? Well, today I got to experience something very similar to whatContinue reading “1111 – When The Bough breaks…”

With a picture from Rome. Not comparing towns, commenting on the pronunciation of Civitaveccia which is done with a hard capital C as in Church whereas I had been saying it with a soft C as in Citizen. I’ll have to break my habit as the former is correct. I managed to get out forContinue reading “1110 – Civitaveccia & Gosport”

Yes, it’s still a picture from the cruise, but no, this isn’t about the cruise. Instead it’s about the book I am reading. Have you ever bought a book, not knowing what to expect, but as you get into it, it become so exciting that you become almost breathless with what is happening and theContinue reading “1109 – A slight Diversion”