Bills Posts

No, it’s not wrong, I don’t mean our monarch, Charles III. I was walking along the timeline on the high street looking to see which date line I could write about next at it was in 1684 that King Charles II visited Gosport.

The purpose of the visit was to inspect the defences. Whilst he was here, he would have stayed in Portsmouth’s Governors house. We have now reached the point where I have told you as much as I have been able to find out with the degree of access that I have.

If I wanted to find out more I think initially I would probably have to go to Portsmouth library and do a bit of research there. I wonder if I would find any thing there? I would expect that there would be things like official records, newspapers, diaries letters. It might be worth spending an hour there.

I’m reading a book about ley lines – called the new view over Atlantis by 5John Michell. Now I’ve already acknowledged that the whole ley line thing is interesting but no more than that.

I’ve reached a point of the book where the author is talking about how features built by people thousands of years ago (along the lines of Stonehenge) believed that there were dragons and the features were built in conjunction with the lay of the land to reflect the connection with the dragons.

Now, my first thought was that this was bunkum, but when I thought about it, how could I know what people from back then were thinking. So I have this plan about visiting various Neolithic sites in Dorset. I was just interested in the sites but perhaps I will pay more attention to the site and it’s location, is there anything about the area that would indicate why the site was located in that particular place, bearing in mind that surrounds would have changed over the thousands of years since they were constructed.

It all adds to the interest.

It has been a lovely day. We walked into town, ending up at the waterfront. We sat there for a while, not talking to anybody, but that’s ok. We had a bit of a browse around the shops. For some reason, I went into CEX I bought a couple of DVD’s. Well, a star gate movie and and the band of brothers box set. I shall watch them slow time.

We had. Drink in Coffee 1, then I went to have a quick look in The Works. The 2024 diaries are out. This is important because I now have a bit of a dilemma. I was in the post office a couple of weeks ago, and they had a diary on the counter, it was a two pages per day version. I hadn’t seen that variant before, so I ordered one off Amazon. Trouble is , it’s the wrong one. Paper is thicker, making it huge. What to do?

I think I’m now outside the return window, so can’t do that. I either have to use the one I have (it won’t be long before I start getting 2024 dates) or I buy the one I want. I can see me doing that. The annoying thing is that the two pages per day thing really does meet a need.

It looks like I am going to have to bite the bullet.

The water front that is. A surprisingly warm easterly breeze was too strong to describe as caressing my face. Not at all unpleasant. There seemed to be a haze in the harbour. Like I say it seemed strange.

Even the sound of the harbour were ringing in my ears. I could hear quite clearly the narration From the small boat doing the tour. Having said all that there was a freshness, I just stood and absorbed the atmosphere.

It really was a strange quality which if I were a good creative writer I would E able to describe what I was experiencing in a way that would convey what I felt to be the beauty of the combination of conditions that I was experiencing. I really quite enjoyed the walk.

Obviously not a tumuli. A tumuli is usually a mound of earth covering a probably Neolithic grave (from 4000 – 2000 BC).

I have this map. On the map I marking the Neolithic sites. I’m only a few 1km squares along the mark up, and I am astounded at the number of sites that I am finding.

All over covid, I think there were very few days that I didn’t post. It was helped by the fantasy holidays and my walks.

I haven’t been getting up in the morning, it started off just not feeling like geting up through to having a pain in my leg that made it very uncomfortable to walk. I’m pretty much back at the. ‘I just don’t feel like getting up” at the moment.

I can still walk, I got out and did a couple of miles this evening. It’s just getting up at 0530 I have a problem with.

Because I’m not getting up and going for my morning walks, I’m not doing my Facebook posts. I am both heartened and dismayed – heartened that so many people were reading my posts, and dismayed in that people are missing the posts.

I’m not sure what I am going to do about it – yet.

Perhaps I should say upfront that I know that ley lines aren’t real (I think I’ve written something like this before but I can’t find it) they aren’t lines of mystical energy – but, wouldn’t it be interesting if they were?

What is it about our brains that drives us in a particular obsession. Even if ley lines aren’t energy paths they could be the old straight tracks that Alfred Watkins identified and wrote about. I could believe in that, if it weren’t the case that we enough Neolithic features that any straight line drawn through the country is likely to identify an alignment.

I’ve done something that I normally wouldn’t dream of doing. I’ve made marks on an ordnance survey map of a part of Dorset. I’ve started marking out certain features; churches, tumuli etc. I’m going to see if I can find my own ley lines. Now, won’t that be fun?

I’m going to keep going. My goal is to reach 1095. There are seventeen posts to go. I’m not stopping completely but I am not sure when I am going to stop, nor exactly when I will resume.

Also, there will be intermittent posts.

We fancied a cup of tea down at Pebbles on Stokes Bay. There was quite a breeze blowing. I wanted to for a bit of a stroll, so I headed towards Gilkicker.

There’s a lot of work going on there. Since the last time I visited the fort, they have restricted access so that you can’t walk all the way around it.

I didn’t walk along the front as I couldn’t be bothered to walk in the gravel that is the waterfront. From a distance it looks like the chimney stacks have been more exposed, but closer up I was surprised to see that the grass wall running around the front has been doubled in height with rubble. Why would they do that?

Anyhow. Walking in the wind. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I took a waterproof with me to use against the wind. I didn’t need it. It was quite pleasant.

I stopped at one point to talk to a bloke who, as I walked past, launched a drone. It went up about five feet and hovered, it then went to bout 50 feet. What was really impressive was it’s stability. I had a brief chat with the pilot. Very impressive and interesting.

It was a quite enjoyable stroll.

We were visiting with the intention of having a take out. The trouble was we couldn’t agree. Then somebody mentioned the new all you can eat place in Fareham.

So we booked a table and went and had some rather delicious food. Here I am some three hours after the event still feeling comfortably full. We will definitely go again.