I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I don’t typically blog about sport, I have in the past blogged about business and there’s also been a time when I’ve blogged politically. This post is about tennis, it touches business and it may, from my point of view,…
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Scarborough, Whitby + the North Yorks Moors
At the beginning of last month I joined a photo holiday run by LSP holidays, led by the impressive Lillian Spibey and based on Scarborough. It was first class. The weather wasn’t great but the worst was limited to the…
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Rather a long book
I’ve read longer books, by James Clavell, Tom Clancy, Ken Follet and others, but not for some time. John Irving’s The Last Chairlift runs to 889 pages and it’s a pretty small font. It must have taken be a couple…
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A tale of two cities
Or to be more precise ‘of two parts of one city’ viz Cambridge. I’m a sucker for routine and part of my routine is coffee mid morning, that’s proper coffee mind you instant coffee is another drink. Along with my…
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Corsica is a little different
We’ve visited several Mediterranean islands and enjoyed holidays on the coast in Italy and France and they’re generally characterised by complex histories with multiple invasions which have left their stamp. Not so Corsica. It might be over simplifying it but…
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Peace in the Middle East
It’s difficult to imagine that we might return to the situation just a few months ago when the US launched its apparently irrational attacks on Iran. Of course the situation in the Middle East has been especially tense since the…
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It’s nice to be recognised
I wasn’t sure what I would get when I joined the Cambridge Camera Club eighteen months ago. I was perhaps surprised that bird and insect photographs seemed to dominate the top positions in competitions, that most of the focus seemed…
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Check the weather before you go (Kenya 2026)
It’s always good advice especially when you’re packing for a vacation and I don’t always follow it. I’ve found myself without waterproofs when it rained in Turin and I’ve shivered for lack of a fleece or similar when we travelled…
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All the countries I’ve ever visited (part III)
I’m fortunate. I’ve enjoyed lots of travel and had good experiences as I’ve done so. For much of the time it’s been business travel but a lots also been vacations when I’ve shared it with my family. In this and…
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5 memorable business trips (3)
This the third in a series of posts about memorable business trips. It relates to time some 10 years after the first two and although email was already a part of business life the concept of accessing your email when…
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