I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Top Gun: Maverick is, after 36 years, the sequel to Top Gun. It’s just been premiered in the UK and will be released in the US later this month. No doubt there will be a surfeit of column issues comparing…
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Photo of the Month: April 2022
It’s a first this month: the first featured photo with my new Samsung Galaxy s20 FE. I’m seeing already that it’s a better camera than by old Sony although to be fair I’d had that for some time. This photo…
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It’s amazing what you find when you’re not looking
This document dates from Dec 98/Jan 99 when we took a New Year’s break in Malaysia. We flew after Xmas, stayed for a few nights in Kuala Lumpur and then went to Penang for the New Year. We stayed in…
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5 good reasons to vote for the Lib Dem team this year
I posted the following on hiopcouncillors.org to support the Lib Dems’ current local election campaign
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Photo of the Month: March 2022
Lots of options again this month with eight photos which I’ve rated 5-star as we’ve been out visiting more National Trust sites and been up to Yorkshire and I’ve had a business trip to Manresa. This one’s of Houghton Mill…
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I’ve got a new phone!
Nothing special about this you might say. Some are in the habit of changing their phones whenever a new model from their favoured brands is released. I’m not like that. I’ve had my last phone for four or five years…
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Photo of the Month: February 2022
Lots to choose from in February with a week in photogenic Switzerland and then the shots of the graffiti wall in Impington and the #StandwithUkraine event in Cambridge so this shot across the lake at Arosa is the best of…
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Switzerland 40 years on
We lived in Switzerland in the 80s (and a couple of years either side). Clare and Charles were both born there and we bought a house. We had a good life but then the world changed and we moved on.
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Photo of the Month: January 2022
This is the Rotunda at Ickworth. It was a cold and sunny morning and not the best light for photography. That’s where a good crop and a little judicious post processing is useful. This photo was taken with my Sony…
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£600 and a couple of extractions later
It began in a workshop with a whiff of diesel next to a village green in South Cambs and it finished in a medically clean room in Cambridge. Everything worked out just fine but I was left some £600 poorer.
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