David Jenkins' weblog

Life’s too short to drink instant coffee


I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.

  • It began with the miners strike and it ended with me sat at a pool bar in Bali. It was quite a year. (the photo above is a passport photo I got taken early in the year in anticipation of…

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  • That’s 5 photographs from 50 years ago. I’ve published two collections of my first two decades of digital photography starting in 2004. As chance would have it I bought my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera in 1974 so I’ve…

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  • It seems to be an accepted truism that men don’t make and keep friends like women do. I can relate to that and given that I’m (a) a bit of an introvert, and (b) not inclined to retain contact with…

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  • Wisbech sadly is not the town it was. It used to be a thriving trading post with the elegant buildings that would go with it. And it was home to social pioneers like Octavia Hill (urban poverty) and Thomas Clarkson…

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  • Google provide a map of where I’ve been in 2023. It’s been a rather more expansive year with no limitations on travel. Internationally I went to Jordan in January and then we went to Piemonte in May and Rhodes in…

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  • I decided that I would become a little more expert in WordPress this year and exercise a little more control over the appearance and working of my website. Well this is it but I guess it’s just the start. I’m…

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  • People ask you. ‘What were you doing in 1994?’ for example and it’s generally difficult to answer. Our memories are good but they’re not stored in date form. But there are exceptions and these do enable you to work out…

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  • This is one of those photos which I thought I must take after seeing a photographer with his tripod taking it one sunny day on Harrison Way in St Ives. A day or so later I was ready and parked…

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  • Monday night and I was at the Cambridge Camera Club again. It was a judging evening for PDI 3, the final part of its competition whereby members submitted three images, one for each round, for external judging and with no…

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  • Finally: fifteen years of digital and colour! Top left is me (front row next to Abi) at the Histon Station protest. Then it’s me with Juni in Hong Kong and, more travel, me in Cuba. Then it’s a first Hawarden…

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