I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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October is nothing if you don’t get a few rainy days and so it was on Sunday the 14th so lots of cliche photo opportunities. I like this one because it’s just about right, subject in focus and nicely standing…
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Sep 18: photo of the month
Lot’s of competition for September’s photo because I was in India for nine days and have multiple candidates but I chose this one, of a bicycle rickshaw driver waiting for a fare, despite its flaws viz the tassles and the…
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I grew up in my grandfather’s house. He was a butcher.
I wrote the following for my contribution to today’s ‘Writing about your life’ session at Histon library. QUOTE I grew up in my grandfather’s house. He was a butcher. I seem to say this quite often and it’s generally in…
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Aug 18: photo of the month
I’ve got a little catch-up to do before I have to choose and publish September’s photo so here’s a shot of the brook by Harding Way after the end of the summer drought. Lots of water and greenery and I…
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Indian Triangle
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!
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 ….
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
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 …
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 …
I 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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