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The history of Gosport is a relative time line. What do I mean by that? The Manor of Gosport was created in the twelfth century by the then bishop of Winchester. Since the day of the creation, the town’s history has evolved. The points in the towns history that stand in my mind are; There’sContinue reading “1017 – Gosport”

Hotels are interesting places. They offer the same function, but each hotel is unique in its own way. This hotel is very nice. The food delicious, and the service superb. I’m afraid I had some connection issues, which meant that I wasn’t able to do my blog for two nights. Now I could have writtenContinue reading “1016 – Issues”

I’ve barely been out this week. All last week I struggled to walk in the morning, going out I had a very sharp pain just below my left knee, and then towards the end of the week my left thigh started giving me problems, it was agony to lift my leg to tie my shoes.Continue reading “1015 – This week”

The last couple of nights, I have been writing about connecting with the past, and trying to get a sense of what that means. Over the last few weeks. I have been playing with the artificial intelligence tool chatGPT. It is rather good. What I like about it rather than a search engine, is thatContinue reading “1014 – cheating?”

Last night I wrote about it feeling good that there were people who could stand at an historically spot and wonder what does even mean to connect with the past? I have to be honest, and say that obviously you can’t connect with the past. Especially as in this context I can’t define what connectContinue reading “1013 – connecting with the past”

The header picture doesn’t have anything to do with Neolithic times. But it is near Gosport’s Mott & Bailey. This is the site of the Apple Dumpling Bridge. I wrote a post a while ago about my interest in Neolithic sites and asking how to connect with people who built Stone Henge or Avebury, butContinue reading “1012 – connecting with the past”

The iPhone camera is perfectly adequate for vlogging. I’ve now recorded several videos on it. For the most part, I have everything I need to do vlogging. what I don’t have is the practice or the stories. Both of those are down to me. One problem I do have is the external microphone – mineContinue reading “1011 – Just Writing”

This is not a Neolithic site, it’s the garden at Holme for Gardens, which is a place to take a very pleasant stroll, have a browse in the garden centre, there’s some lovely cakes in the shop, and the food in the cafe is delicious. Well worth a visit. And, disappointingly, this is one ofContinue reading “1010 – interests”

Even though I’ve put today’s date in the title of today’s entry – there is nothing really special to report about today. We had a nice breakfast of pancakes and whiled away a bit of time watching the starlings on the bird table, and the pigeons trying to get on to the table. You don’tContinue reading “1010 – Saturday 03 Jun 23”

I know I can’t feed all birds everywhere, I would see no one, or nothing starve. I can’t even feed all of the local wildlife all of the time. But I do what I can. What that means is that some of local birds and the odd squirrel get a rather nice breakfast of groundContinue reading “1009 – baby starlings”