I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I don’t really know why I bother but I’m pretty diligent in reporting restaurants I’ve visited and hotels I’ve stayed at on TripAdvisor. In 2022 I rated 9 hotels and 36 restaurants. For some reason I did not rate our…
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2022 in facts and figures
Google provide a map of where I’ve been in 2022. It’s been a rather more expansive year as limitations on travel have been first relaxed and then removed.
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Photo of the Month: December 2022
It was a bitterly cold morning and I was walking into Histon to support the Abbey Fields stall at the SmokeHouse market. I took the opportunity to photograph the knitted embellishment to the wall at the start of Pease Way.…
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5 highlights of 2022
It’s been a more normal year and to some extent it’s been business as usual with fewer standout highlights. Here’s a list of five that spring to mind. Family holiday in North Norfolk. We rented a cottage in Thornham and…
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1966 and all that
In 1966 England won the World Cup. It was also a pretty significant year for me. It was the year I started at university and was therefore the time when I stopped living at home. Although I visited many times…
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Photo of the Month: November 2022
It’s back to wild life this month! I spent an excellent weekend in mid Wales on a photography course and for the Sunday afternoon we visited the Red Kite Centre at Rhayader. This photo was taken with my Sony a7…
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Elan Valley photo weekend
Earlier this month I enjoyed a weekend in mid Wales mainly as a part of a photo weekend with Alan Mershon of Going Digital. It was to start at 1000 on the Friday morning and given that I had a…
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Photo of the Month: October 2022
Continuing my theme of photographs which are out of my comfort zone, this one was taken when I participated in a one hour street photography workshop as a part of the Cambridge Photography Show. Lots of good common sense and…
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Only a fool Mr Sunak …
There’s an unattributed quote that suggests that insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’. Maybe its source is the same as the origin of ‘if you’re in a hole stop digging’.
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5 reasons I could never vote for the Tories
I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted but if I have that’s of the past. The ‘good’ Tories I remember like Michael Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, even John Major seem to have left the scene to be relaced by UKIP clones.…
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