I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Nothing unusual about that you might say, it happens to everyone, but it is unusual for me because I can probably count the number of days I’ve taken off sick in almost 50 years of work on the fingers of…
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5 great breakfasts
There was one of those features in the Observer food supplement last weekend listing exceptional places to eat breakfast. They’re nothing of the sort of course. They’re just a list.
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Dec 16: photo of the month
A bit more timely this one and it seemed for most of the month that this would have been one of my photos from Bruges (click here for that album) but at the last minute it had to be Alex…
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2016: not a totally bad year
I’ve set a precedent with reviews of the year in 2013, 2014 1nd 2015 so here’s 2016. To some extent it’s been a year like the others: some sadness but so far not too much, some successes and some enjoyment.…
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Reflections on Xmas dinners past
This year we’re enjoying Xmas at Alex and Clare’s house. That’s the third year when we’ve had Xmas dinner with them and it got me thinking about the journey that I’ve taken in terms of my Xmas dinners.
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Nov 16: photo of the month
I’m still in catch up mode but here’s the photo from November and it’s a cliche. I think I take this photo every year and its leaves and berries from the Rowan at the front of the house, fist frost…
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Oct 16: photo of the month
Oops this is a bit late. Not sure why, no good reasons. This is Ragussa in Sicily on our walk down to the old town on the last evening of our recent holiday. I took this with my Sony SLT-A58…
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Grandparents and how they define you
There was a lady on the radio talking about grandparents. The point was of course that they were a mixed bunch and that’s what defined her: a mix of four different cultural connections. That got me thinking. How do my…
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5 memorable railway journeys
It seems like a truism that everybody likes trains. Maybe not commuter type trains but long distance ones that take you on a journey. For some reason people don’t really like buses; maybe it’s because buses get stuck in traffic.
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Sep 16: photo of the month
The National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthen is a quite magical place with quiet water, the world’s largest single-spanned glasshouse and Paxton’s Tower, framed by ‘pi’ by Rawleigh Clay, in the distance.
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