The story of my life one year at a time: 2001
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I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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After 2011 I thought I’d go 10 years further back, to 2001, and that wasn’t so easy. The internet was in its infancy, so Google searches don’t appear to be so effective, and my photography had not yet gone digital.
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The story of my life, one year at a time: 2011
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I thought it would be an interesting exercise to build a story of my life one year at a time so I decided to make it just a little easy by starting with 2011. It’s ‘easy’ because it’s only ten…
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Photo of the month: May 2021
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in photosIt’s been a good month for photography with several candidates for PotM. Then when I’d chosen this one I was in two minds whether or not to post the version with a few, very minor, post processing adjustments. In the…
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Five great upgrades
I’m fortunate but I’ve also got to apologise. I’m fortunate in that I’ve enjoyed lots of interesting business travel often in business or even first class. At one time I had three gold cards: with BA, KLM and SAS which…
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Farewell to all that
At midnight a week ago last Monday I ceased to be a county councillor. I was first elected 16 years ago and, as I’ve said many times, I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for. Certainly I couldn’t…
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and finally 2020-21
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Every month I write a monthly report about county council activities. Sad I know but I try to add a little colour with a final ‘and finally’ paragraph. Here’s the set of such paragraphs for 2020-21. They are of course…
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Photo of the month: April 2021
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in photosTwo PotM posts in a row rather suggests I haven’t been doing much writing recently. I’ll blame that on the election and promise to improve now that’s behind us. This is a photo, one of the first, taken with my…
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Photo of the month: March 2021
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in photosI was stuck without a DSLR for a couple of weeks as I was trading up. That meant I resorted to my perfectly good Sony WX-350 compact. This is a photo of Ros Hathorn who’s standing as the Lib Dem…
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David Jenkins steps down: the end of an era
HI Hub (www.hihub.info) is a community website for the village of Histon & Impington. It recently ran an article about me not standing for re-election this year. It’s quoted below. Click here if you want to read it on HI…
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Photo of the month: February 2021
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in photosIt’s not a usual shot for me, more for artistic merit than a part of the story of my life, but it seems to work. Camera held low down, shallow depth of field frosty morning. This photo was taken with…
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