Category Archives: personal blog

Towards the beginning of April we were in Chichester for the day. As usual, my focus of interest were Waterstones and Kim’s. Kim’s is a second hand bookshop. It’s a really nice place over four floors it is absolutely a brilliant place. I’d spent a good bit of time having a browse around. I doneContinue reading “973 – Dorset by H.O.Lock”

In the sense that I am going to go on a bit about topic that I have been on this week. Paul & Rebecca’s YouTube channel is absolutely fascinating. I found a similar channel, here are links to both of them; https://www.youtube.com/@pwhitewick https://www.youtube.com/@DaveFord The Dave Ford channel is another new discovery, only found yesterday. HeContinue reading “972 – Please bear with me”

I got to spend a bit of time in the Fareham Waterstones today. It’s always pleasant to have a browse. I know the layout of the shop quite well, with the latest non-fiction books displayed just inside the entrance. One of the first books I picked up to have a quick browse through was RemaindersContinue reading “971 – Bookshops.”

From my perspective, the USA dominates YouTube and their videos tend to come in three flavours; very political, very business oriented or entertainment. There are doubtless others, perhaps I’m using the wrong searches, well doubtless I am. Pretty much all of the US videos I watch are very professionally produced especially the business ones. TheyContinue reading “970 – Differences”

I was just looking through the news on my iPad, when I realised that last nights post wasn’t showing up in the list. When I went into the app I realised that it was still down as a draft, it hadn’t been published. The most annoying thing about that is that the day count isContinue reading “969 – Timing”

I enjoyed writing the last two posts. I think it is becasue I had a clear topic in mind, I had a reasonable plan for what I wanted to write. As a result the words kind of flowed. If only I could do that every time. I think part of the problem I have isContinue reading “968 – Writing”

This is an early stage in a fairly major construction project so where do I start? I think it’s the bus station. It’s going to be pulled down. I don’t know what’s going to be built in it’s place, I just hope it includes a space where the public can take advantage of the ofContinue reading “967 – Construction Projects”

I bought two radios during a mad phase. The only justification I’ll give is that they were quite cheap. They both turned up in the middle of last week and had languished, boxed, on my desk until yesterday apart from the batteries which I had charged. Yesterday, I bit the bullet and got on withContinue reading “966 – The satisfaction of persistence”

Nothing catastrophic I hasten to add. All very minor stuff, but frustrating. It started when I set up the app I use to measure my walks for my quick trip to Morrisons for the salad stuff for todays first BBQ of the year. I’d been saying for a couple of weeks that I’d quite likeContinue reading “965 – when things go wrong”

I have four books that address the history of Gosport. Three of those books address fairly recent history because they use photography a lot. So they aren’t going to pre-date the 20th century by many years. The fourth book is a bit different. Yes it does have a few plates, but they are not theContinue reading “964 – Gosport”