I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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We’ve just spent a couple of days short of four weeks on holiday in Indonesia. It’s a longer trip than we’d normally make and with hindsight would have been better if it had been a few days shorter but you…
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Oct 19: photo of the month
Good to have a photo from my DSLR this month after a run of phone photos. The subject is one of Mrs J’s flower arrangements and I really like the dusty cream of the rose. The photo was taken with…
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What’s the point? Five healthy foods to avoid.
I was chatting to one of the excellent nurses who’s helping me with my cardiac rehab. We were talking about diet and in general I find it easy enough to follow a cardiac friendly diet: lots of fruit and veg…
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Sep 19: photo of the month
It seems to have been a month with no recourse to my DSLR so it was a choice between a bunch of phone photos. This one sums up the summer and is typical of many photos I’ve taken. It’s apparently…
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Me and my stent: the first month
It seems like September was dominated by me getting to terms with having had an angioplasty and learning to live with a stent.
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Eggs: five ways I like them
I’m prompted to write this because I’ve got to think about my diet post stent. My cholesterol is a little high and I need to think about how I can reduce it and that means less fat in my diet.…
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Three Thursdays in August (and the two weeks in between)
Thursday 15 Aug 19: It was a pretty standard day given that all my days are different anyway. I started with a photo session down in Orchard Park at 0830. Then a coffee at Thoroughbreads in Cowley Road before visiting…
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Aug 19: photo of the month
Sometimes you get a mobile phone photo just right. And I reckon this is one of those times. It’s Ely cathedral of course taken from the garden of the Almonry. This was taken with my Sony Xperia XZ1, 1/2000th sec…
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Jul 19: photo of the month
This is one of those seasonal photos. During the summer growing season the farmers are out watering, fertilising and protecting their crops and they seem to do it at night time. This was taken with my Sony Xperia XZ1, 1/50th…
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Wales in a week: 5 highlights
We spent 5 days in Wales in August of this year. It wasn’t planned as a big holiday but grew out of an idea to spend some time with the Bradburys (my daughter and her family) whilst they were camping…
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