I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I generally keep a diary when there’s something special going on. That typically includes travel and special events so I’ve been keeping one over the last few days and included in it my reflections of 2020. This is what I’ve…
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Photos of the month: October, November and December
Oops … this is a bit of a catch-up to make sure that I can round off the year within the year and not some time in 2021. October I drink more wine than I do beer but I don’t…
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Brexit: it’s all about the fish
In a year of such bad news the headline that a Brexit deal has been signed counts as good news but it is only relatively, and minimally, so. For the country at large it means duty and quota free access…
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Breakfast at Bill’s @billscambridge
It doesn’t really have the same cachet as Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I like the alliteration. Until the first Covid lockdown we went to Cambridge just about every Saturday morning and we’d generally have breakfast at Don Pasquale with Tony…
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People die but sometimes you don’t know
It’s that time of year. Time to write Xmas cards. We continue to do this because there’s people out there whom we know and we want to tell that we remember them. An email is just a little bit too…
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My mother didn’t have a happy life
I don’t mean that it was uniformly unhappy but after a promising start she suffered a misfortune which, despite her undoubted mental strength and determination, was to blight the rest of her life. Audrey Vickers was born in 1923 and…
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What’s wrong with using the phone?
I know it’s already been reported that younger people don’t use the phone. It’s said that they prefer to communicate in other ways, mainly via social media and its associated messaging services. They do this because they’re all linked in…
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Leaders are only as good as their teams
The All Stars, Lensbury’s 2nd rugby team: I’ve always enjoyed sport, as a spectator and a participant. Unfortunately I’ve never been that good at it and in school, although I’d have happily swapped a few academic grades for a place…
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Sep 20: photo of the month
I take a beer photo every Friday and I guess one was going to be seen as deserving the ultimate accolade. This one looks good enough to drink and is of a beer which I often drank on visits to…
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Aug 20: photo of the month
I take this shot most Saturdays and Sundays now because my regular weekend routines have been upset by (a) the closure of Don Pasquale and (b) Covid. I reckon I’m good at scrambled eggs and I got introduced to avocado…
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