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.

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.

Old cuttings of my father – I’ve had these pictures for years I thought it’s about time I posted them. +1

Form 5T Hadham Hall School, 1972

Hadham Hall School, Form 5T, 1972 — The Power of Mnemonics — 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. 2 3

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.

Photograph from the Herts & Essex Observer of Len Thomsett and Steve Allman with their yacht Miga

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. 5 5

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.

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