I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Two 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
I 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
It’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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Isn’t life risky?
I got an email from my GP last week asking me to make an appointment for a blood test because in October 2019 I’d been perceived as being of medium risk of developing diabetes type 2. They’d given me a…
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Letter to Kyoji
I’ve had an on/off relationship with Japan since the very first days of my working life but today it’s only continued through a Xmas card exchange with and a letter to Kyoji Ohtake.
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Remembering Greece
There was a program on BBC2 last night about Crete, the Minoan civilisation and the archaeological site at Knossos and I thought ‘I’ve been there’.
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5 life (career) changing decisions
Everyone’s life is the result of a mix of chance and decisions. You can’t do much about chance but it’s the decisions you make which map out your life. I reckon that there’s five decision which I’ve taken which, successively,…
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Photo of the month: January 2021
It’s not been a great month for photography and it came down to a choice from one from a sunny morning or one from a cold and misty one. The latter won. This was taken with my Sony WX350 pocket…
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On my radar Jan 21
It’s a long time since I’ve written one of these and with lockdown too many experiences are off limits so you’ve really got to work hard to come up with a good list. However that’s just an excuse so here…
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