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I was going to write a piece about a famous musician who was born in Islington, but live a large part of his life in Gosport. Nat Gonella was a Jazz Trumpeter, here’s a video of some of his music; https://bit.ly/Nat_Gonella There is a square in town named after him, and this sculpture is locatedContinue reading “1047 – Nat Gonella”

I have written about Locality and how it came about in earlier posts. This being the 1046th post I’m not going to plough through the posts to identify where I’ve written about it. The point of locality is to learn about the history of the area, and. I haven’t been doing that much recently. I’veContinue reading “1046 – Re-engaging Locality”

Don’t worry, it’s not permanent. It’s just that every so often, my interests rotate. So, once again I find my interest in my Nikon rekindled except I can’t find any of the batteries for it, and my interest in toy photography is back so I am once again watching Sir Dork videos on you tubeContinue reading “1045 – Goals Changing”

For the first time in nearly three weeks (actually, it’s only a day short) I did an early morning walk of Gosport town centre. Not my normal walk, in that I cut it short by about a mile. I enjoyed the walk, the weather was lovely the sun shone with a delightful warmth, even atContinue reading “1044 – Gosport Walking”

If things go according plan tomorrow morning, I will be waking up early enough to go for a walk, even if it is only to the waterfront or back. I’m quite keen to see how the towns wilding patches are doing. I walk past a couple of them and they have been doing nicely. OfContinue reading “1043 – Morning Walks”

I’ve left it too late tonight, sorry. We had a walk in to Gosport this morning, well nearer midday really. The hight street was Pretty busy. We were surprised to see a number of Morris Dancer groups around the town. weatherspoons was particularly busy. When we reached the waterfront, we stopped and asked one ofContinue reading “1042 – Gosport Music”

Between the train in the header picture, and the entry in Gosport’s next entry in the timeline that says “1540 Gosport described as a little village. It isn’t so much Gosport as a little village that I want to write about Rather it is a little community hidden away in a quiet corner of theContinue reading “1041 – There’s no link…”

These manholes are all covered up now. They are getting ready to take traffic. It’ll be interesting to see how things are progressing in town. There were signs of activity down at the bus station as well, not much, a bit of fencing, that kind of thing. The only problem will be that it willContinue reading “1040 – Gosport”

For the last two and a bit weeks I have been cat sitting. No three mile walks in the morning, working 6AM – 9PM, through choice, rather than watch TV. It was fine, I’m not moaning at all. The morning walks have a tendency to feed my writings. Not going out has made the writingContinue reading “1039 – writing”

I haven’t been out much today. I walked to the local store, it’s only 5 minutes away through a small patch of trees. I’m very aware that I have taken practically no pictures over the last couple of weeks. I thought I would take a couple of pictures of the leaves. I was playing withContinue reading “1038 – A Simple Photo”