I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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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5 signs you’re a little bit older
As people are inclined to say: not a lot improves as you get older, it’s just better than the alternative
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2021 in facts and figures
Google has just sent me a map of where I’ve been in 2021. It’s been a rather limited year, the second in a row, with no holidays outside the UK and just one quick business trip to Spain in November.
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