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Let’s get this one in quickly before I get another month behind. This is Julie Smith aka Baroness Smith of Newnham at the official ‘launch’ of Lib Dem Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayoral candidate Rod Cantrill. It’s purely coincidental but I like the match of the black and white polka dot blouse with the black and…

Opps I’m running a little late … I don’t know how long this barn is going to survive because it’s right in the path of the A14 diggers on the right as you head north before Fenstanton. There’s similarly pithy graffiti on the other side. This was taken with my Sony SLT-A58 1/6th at f6.3 with…

Nothing unusual about that you might say, it happens to everyone, but it is unusual for me because I can probably count the number of days I’ve taken off sick in almost 50 years of work on the fingers of one hand. And anyway I don’t have a proper job anymore so how can I…

I’ve set a precedent with reviews of the year in 2013, 2014 1nd 2015 so here’s 2016. To some extent it’s been a year like the others: some sadness but so far not too much, some successes and some enjoyment. Here goes for 2016.

There was a lady on the radio talking about grandparents. The point was of course that they were a mixed bunch and that’s what defined her: a mix of four different cultural connections. That got me thinking. How do my grandparents define me?

The National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthen is a quite magical place with quiet water, the world’s largest single-spanned glasshouse and Paxton’s Tower, framed by ‘pi’ by Rawleigh Clay, in the distance.

I stayed at the RAF Club in London this week. The location is super, on Piccadilly at the Hyde Park Corner end and overlooking Green Park, it’s steeped in RAF culture, my room, albeit a single, ticked all the boxes and breakfast was excellent. It isn’t a hotel of course but it got me thinking…

We’ve got some super Samsung technology in our house. A couple of TV screens, yes I confess to having a TV on the wall in the kitchen, my wife’s got a Samsung tablet and most recently I bought an excellent Samsung 4-colour laser printer.