I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I stayed at the RAF Club in London this week. The location is super, on Piccadilly at the Hyde Park Corner end and overlooking Green Park, it’s steeped in RAF culture, my room, albeit a single, ticked all the boxes…
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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 Padua and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not…
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Aug 16: photo of the month
Sometimes it’s all about the content on an emotional level. This is number one granddaughter Amelia with father, and my son-in-law, Alex sat on the bank of the Wharf in Wetherby by the bandstand.
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F3: my five favourite fish
I was sat in front of the bio enjoying a late supper of salmon, it’s my preferred late night dish, and got to reflecting on my diet which is maybe 50% fish. Given that which are my favourites?
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Samsung: cynical approach to recycling
We’ve got some super Samsung technology in our house. A couple of TV screens, yes I confess to having a TV on the wall in the kitchen, my wife’s got a Samsung tablet and most recently I bought an excellent…
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Jul 16: photo of the month
Sometimes the best photos are the easiest ones because someone’s already done the work for you. And at the same time you can make a statement.
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5 places I meet people on business
Of course there’s lots of places where I meet people but these are the ones where I’ve had serial meetings.
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I’m not really a runner these days
Over the last few years, specifically 2012-2015, I’ve been doing more running. I started because a colleague inspired me when she told me about her first 10k. If she can do it then so can I so I added it…
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Jun 16: photo of the month
I seemed to take a fair few food photos in June and several were technically good but this one says more about me and where I live.
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What’s wrong with the right glass?
It happened again last night. I ordered a glass of pretty good wine in a nice restaurant which served us a really good meal. But my wine came in a glass just big enough for the quantity of wine which…
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