I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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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My digital journey. 2004 to 2013
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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