I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Some time back I did a post on ‘5 significant holidays’. I’m not sure if my recent trip to the Golden Triangle in India would count as significant but it was truly epic.
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stop the line!
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Anyone who’s read my blog posts will sense an obsession with coffee shops, breakfast and routine. These come together when I’ve got an early start to do the weekly shop at Waitrose.
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all the cameras I’ve owned ….
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My first real camera was a Halina 35X (I had a Kodak Brownie earlier). I inherited it from my father and it was a great camera to start with as I learned the basics of exposure, shutter speed and ISO…
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Jul 18: photo of the month
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Lots of competition this month, I seem to have had lots of photographable experiences and taken halfways decent photos of many of them. Here’s the best of a super bunch and it’s the moment that James Alexander Bradbury gets his…
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what we did that summer …
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Earlier this month the Guardian’s travel supplement ran a feature with ten people remembering their ‘most memorable’ holidays. Here’s my memory of my first independent holiday ‘Four in a Mini to the South of France‘ as featured in my earlier…
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on my radar …
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in lifeI guess the topic on most people’s radar until yesterday was the heatwave. People compare it to 1976 but I didn’t really experience hat. It was the year I moved from Jakarta to Hong Kong and I just remember a…
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Jun 18: photo of the month
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in photosIf I’m anything I’m a creature of habit and that takes me into Cambridge every Saturday morning when I’m at home. We have breakfast with friends and there are often others on the way. This is me with Mark Donachy…
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Three strikes and you’re out
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in reminiscenceI don’t know how long the Strikes bowling alley has been in Ely or how long it’s been there but it is no more. A week or so Cambridgeshire County Council took it over and is converting it into an…
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May 18: photo of the month
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in photosI should have lots to choose from with the final days of a hard fought election and then an excellent week’s holiday in Sardinia. I haven’t agonised too much but this is one from my Sardinia album on Flickr (click…
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on my radar …
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in lifeIt’s been a busy week so maybe I’ve got enough highlights to talk about.
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