Oil lamp and bench — The texture of the wood and the quality of the light tempted me to take this picture.
Garden Room reed blinds — The idea is to keep some warmth in and the weather out at night.
September 10, 2006 12:44
Garden – It took a few years for all the screening plants to grow in, but it worked well.
August 12, 2006 16:34
Sailing on the River Thurne, Norfolk Broads. This could be August 1999. It could be 2000, or later…
August 14, 1999 15:00
Falcon – Ink Drawing. Falcon was an abandoned lifeboat conversion. She later broke up. Langstone Harbour – Portsmouth.
January 22, 1992 21:57
Erica Felicia – Ink Drawing.
January 21, 1992 21:52
The Cheesewring (Cornwall, UK) – Ink Drawing.
January 20, 1992 21:35
Bennett, Goring, Allman – I’m pretty sure this was the year Bob and Ann turned up unexpectedly.
August 26, 1991 20:36
Robert’s ‘Official’ Christening Picture.
May 24, 1985 15:22
Gary working in the computer room at Portsmouth Polytechnic—Left to right: Gary and Alex. My best guess is that this picture was taken between 1982 and 1983. I found it in an old Computer Science Department brochure I’d kept.
April 29, 1983 11:45
Gary working in the computer room at Portsmouth Polytechnic—Left to right: Gary, Chris, and Alex. My best guess is that this picture was taken between 1982 and 1983. I found it in an old Computer Science Department brochure I’d kept.
April 29, 1983 11:23
Old cuttings of my father – I’ve had these pictures for years I thought it’s about time I posted them. +1
June 1, 1974 17:18
A friend posted a mnemonic on Facebook for the sequence of the royal houses of England in chronological order. It reminded me of one my uncle taught me, which in turn reminded me of a couple I learned at school. Two-minute read, 2 pictures
July 21, 1972 1:21
Hadham Hall School, October 1968 – Today (March 11, 2021), spurred on by an email I recently received from another ‘old boy,’ I did a quick stitching job on the pictures. Unfortunately, neither Photoshop nor Lightroom’s auto stitch could merge the images, so I ended up doing so by hand. As the image is low res, and time is short, that was the extent of my repairs to the photograph.
October 16, 1968 13:15
They Built Their Own Yacht – Packed away in a box under the bed I found this newspaper cutting from 1960. It tells the story of how my father and a work colleague built their own yacht. I’ve also written about some of my early sailing experiences, in particular a couple of attempts at drowning myself. Five-minute read, 5 pictures
May 13, 1960 20:59
Coincidences – In one of life’s little coincidences, last night while working on de-cluttering I chanced upon my father’s (rather sparsely populated) sailing logbook.