I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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It’s got to be the rose! f5 at 1/100th with no post processing, taken with my Sony alpha 58 SLR. And just to demonstrate that there must be something in the soil here’s a photo of another rose in the same garden…
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On my radar
Every week the Observer gets someone to tell us what’s on his or her cultural radar. There seems to be a standard of 7 items but it’s not clear how topical they should be. However my blog, my rules so…
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Tour guides I have loved and not …
We’ve only been taking package tours since about 1998 when we went with Travel Editions to Hidden Italy. We were based in Ravenna and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not…
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Five significant holidays
We’re off on holiday shortly and it’s going to be a big one. I’ve got myself a significant birthday so we’re off to Australia (again) via Hong Kong for the best part of 4 weeks with time in Melbourne and…
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5 places I haven’t visited yet
The waitress in the restaurant the other night asked me where I was from. I suggested she told me first which she did. She was from Bulgaria. In addition to waiting on tables she was also studying psychology at Glasgow…
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Jul 17: photo of the month
It’s been a little thin on the blog posting front and here’s a second photo of the month in a row. When I posted this on Tumblr I said it was a bit of a cliche and the purists would…
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Jun 17: photo of the month
Nothing extra special about this one but it’s a mug shot taken with my ‘fast’ lens of Peter Doyle who was one of my buddies at Churchill 1966-1969. What I like about the fast lens is the way it blurs…
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A day in the life
It’s good if Friday can be a good day. It draws a line under the week and sets the tone for the weekend. And for it to be a good day it needs a good start and that for me…
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The worst of British …
It’s been a tough 12 months and 2017 on it’s own hasn’t been much good either but two events this month struck me as exemplifying just how wrong we can get it sometimes. I may be conflating the trivial with…
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May 17: photo of the month
Another prompt posting this month. This is from Coimbra in Portugal. It’s Portugal’s premier university city so has some equivalence to Cambridge. Big difference is the enthusiasm of the students to embrace a ‘uniform’, note the student in the photo…
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