Category: reminiscence
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Well that was 2024
It’s not been a bad year despite ending with rather a nasty tummy bug between Xmas and New Year. However I do seem to be over that as we ease into 2025 so let’s hope that can be as good. Thinking about the highlights of the year, five as usual. My big little finger op…
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I walked to Ely the other day
Not a big deal you might say if you live in one of its adjacent villages but I live in Histon which makes it a 27 km hike. Even 27 km might not seem that far to some but although I do walk a lot and join groups that do regular Friday morning walks they…
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All the countries I’ve ever visited (part I)
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 lot has also been vacations when I’ve shared it with my family. In this and subsequent posts I’ve tried to be consistent with what is a country. It’s an…
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1975: part 1 the sport
At the time I felt that I spent a lifetime in Indonesia but it was barely two years. I arrived in Jakarta the middle of 1974 and left in August 1976. But I was there for the whole of 1975. This was 50 years ago and much has changed. Technology has transformed communications of course…
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Cuba remembered
Last night at the Cambridge Camera Club we saw the results of a recent trip to Cuba by Roy Essary (https://shuttershot.co.uk/). It prompted me to go back and look at the photos I’d taken when we visited in 2009. I was using a Sony DSLR A300 in those days and although most of the shots…
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1974: a big transition
It began with the miners strike and it ended with me sat at a pool bar in Bali. It was quite a year. (the photo above is a passport photo I got taken early in the year in anticipation of what I would need for visas and the like later on) In summary it was…
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5 from 50
That’s 5 photographs from 50 years ago. I’ve published two collections of my first two decades of digital photography starting in 2004. As chance would have it I bought my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera in 1974 so I’ve started to see if I can put together similar collections for the 30 years since…
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Mates
It seems to be an accepted truism that men don’t make and keep friends like women do. I can relate to that and given that I’m (a) a bit of an introvert, and (b) not inclined to retain contact with people it’s certainly true of me. Today I’ve got lots of people with whom I’m…
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References in time
People ask you. ‘What were you doing in 1994?’ for example and it’s generally difficult to answer. Our memories are good but they’re not stored in date form. But there are exceptions and these do enable you to work out an answer to the question. They’re the years for which you can always respond ‘yes,…
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5 highlights of 2023
It’s been a full year but strangely I’ve had difficulty teasing out five particular highlights. However I do have a list even though number five is perhaps a bit of a cop-out. Three good holidays with eight excellent hotels. First my trip to Jordan, then Juni and I had a wet but nonetheless excellent week…