I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I’ve recently ‘published’ a photobook including photographs which I’ve taken between 2004, when I bought my first digital camera, to 2013. There’s one for each year plus a few more besides. Click here to view it. This photo is from…
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If you really want growth Ms Truss: 5 really good ideas!
I’ve been thinking about this post for a couple of weeks now (since Liz Truss’ dreadful ‘growth, growth, growth’ speech at the Conservative Party Conference) and only wrote it last night. With the events of today (Kwasi Kauteng being sacked)…
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Photo of the Month: September 2022
I would never claim to be a wild-life photographer but … I reckon this one’s pretty good. Admittedly this deer is probably well used to members of the public it’s nonetheless a well crafted shot. It’s a shot of a…
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I’ve been for a walk
A nine mile walk around Chrishall in Essex to be precise. It’s the third such walk I’ve done with a walking group called the Steamers. Don’t ask me why it’s so called but it seems the group was spawned by…
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5 stages of my life; and looking forward to the 6th
I’ve just celebrated my 75th birthday and it’s given me time to reflect. It’s a nice multiple of 15 so it might be regarded as the end of some fifth stage. If so what are the five stages and as…
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Photo of the Month: August 2022
Some photos are just pure serendipity as is this one. We’d just come out from dinner in Brighton and were walking back to the hotel down the narrow alley ways, this one connects Middle Street to Ship Street. I like…
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North Norfolk: 5 highlights
We’ve just had a week in Thornham, a little to the east of Hunstanton, in North Norfolk. We’d rented a house so that we could spend time with the Bradburies and Charles without the space constraints of our respective homes.…
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Stent plus three. Or how the world has changed.
29 Aug 2019 was the day I was wheeled into Royal Papworth to undergo an angioplasty which, according to Dr Kilani who performed the procedure, probably pre-empted a heart attack and who knows what the consequences of that would have…
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Brighton: 5 takeaways
I’ve just spent a couple of nights in Brighton. I must say I’m underwhelmed but then maybe what it offers is not what I look for. Anyway these are my five takeaways (four positive and one negative to make up…
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30 years ago
The Guardian tells me that 30 years ago history was made at the Barcelona Olympics by the presence of the US ‘Dream Team’ competing in the basketball and setting standards which had never been seen before. I remember those Olympics…
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