I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Here’s my photo of the month for Feb 16. It’s a shot of the super new roof at King’s Cross and shows people waiting on the walkway which leads through into the main station.
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5 contributions for Room 101
I’m not a big fan of Room 101 but I watch it if I’ve got nothing better to do. It’s very much dependant on the guests and more recently this has become increasingly D list. Fortunately Frank Skinner is an…
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Jan 16: photo of the month
I keep a ‘photo diary’ on Tumblr (click here) and I thought it might be interesting to pick one each month and to add a little information about it. It’s not necessarily the best technically but there should be a…
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Not a bad final scene: the Woburn Hotel, 31 Dec 15
I guess there’s one suggestion that fills most men with dread viz why don’t we go to IKEA? I don’t want to knock the store. They sell well designed stuff at sensible prices and there was a time when we…
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2015: generally exceptional …
Staying with the precedent set for 2013 and continued for 2014 here are my reflections of 2015. In many respects it’s been an exceptional year and although there has been some sadness there hasn’t been the uptick that you might…
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Damn! I love Indonesia
We were invited to a wedding, Sat 12 Dec 15. It was Juni’s cousin’s son whom we knew quite well so we had a mind to go. Problem was it was in Surabaya, East Java. Rather a long way to…
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Rome wasn’t built in a day …
… but it’s best to be seen a day at a time. And just this month we were there for 4 days and most of that time we were out of Rome visiting Italian gardens.
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Big trip to Oz: March 2015
Last month we were in Australia. It wasn’t a big trip by some people’s standards but it was 3 weeks, we haven’t had a 3 week holiday for ages, and it was Australia which is a long way away. We…
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And finally … the last 12 months
I write a monthly report on my county councillor work which I send primarily to the parish councils in the Cottenham, Histon & Impington county division. I always finish off with a more personal item (And finally …). I’ve just…
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Applied Chemicals: 2016 reunion?
There’s a program on the radio ‘the Reunion’, in which people are brought together some years after a significant event. Most times they will have worked together to make it happen but sometimes they were protagonists and it’s interesting to see…
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