{"id":11,"date":"2018-08-21T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/home\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:42:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/","title":{"rendered":"From GP to novice boat builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a full-time GP for over 28 years, joining my current Practice in Gosport in November 1990. \u00a0I have decided that now is the time for me to retire from practise, and to pursue a long-held dream: in March 2019 I start a one year full-time boatbuilding course at the International Boatbuilding College, based in Boathouse 4, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. \u00a0I have set up this website and blog, partly to share something of my GP career and its completion; but mainly to share my experiences at the IBTC. \u00a0It&#8217;s going to be quite a change of course, a new tack, and I hope it is of some interest to friends, family and the occasional random visitor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stuart Morgan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__supports-newline wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions\">\n\t\t<div class=\"jetpack_subscription_widget\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__container\">\n\t\t\t\t<form\n\t\t\t\t\taction=\"#\"\n\t\t\t\t\tmethod=\"post\"\n\t\t\t\t\taccept-charset=\"utf-8\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-blog=\"150636821\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-post_access_level=\"everybody\"\n\t\t\t\t\tid=\"subscribe-blog-1\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"subscribe-email\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<label id=\"jetpack-subscribe-label\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"screen-reader-text\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor=\"subscribe-field-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tType your email\u2026\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" required=\"required\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"no-border-radius  required\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 23px 15px 23px;border-radius: 0px;border-width: 1px;\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvalue=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"subscribe-field-1\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplaceholder=\"Type your email\u2026\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"subscribe-submit\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"subscribe\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blog_id\" value=\"150636821\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"source\" value=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpages%2F11\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sub-type\" value=\"subscribe-block\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_fragment\" value=\"subscribe-blog-1\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"submit\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 23px 15px 23px;margin: 0px; margin-left: 10px;border-radius: 0px;border-width: 1px;\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tname=\"jetpack_subscriptions_widget\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/form>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a full-time GP for over 28 years, joining my current Practice in Gosport in November 1990. \u00a0I have decided that now is the time for me to retire from practise, and to pursue a long-held dream: in March 2019 I start a one year full-time boatbuilding course at the International Boatbuilding College,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesfromtheboatshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}