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One of the books I am reading at the moment is Platform Souls by Nicholas Whittaker. The book describes his life, the part I’m reading at present, as a kid. Some of the antics he got up to were, to be honest outrageous. I had no idea of the depths of devotion that kids hadContinue reading “687 – Trainspotting”

I’m a nosey person. I like to know what is going on. I also like to help. I think that’s where my involvement as the Exhibition Secretary at the St Neots Camera Club started it all. I quite enjoyed doing that although it got a bit stressful at exhibition time. So many people wanted aContinue reading “686 – Committees & things”

There is a lot of wildlife in town, birds are mostly easy, they are everywhere, there are the really common ones; starlings, pigeons, and I’d say sparrows, and I use the word common in that there appears to be a lot of them. At the back of Trinity Church there a load of pigeons andContinue reading “685 – On the Wild Side”

I took this picture because I wanted to talk about the window, not because I was particularly interested in it as a picture. But the more I look at it, the more I like it simply because there is so much character in the window. What I wanted to talk about originally was just theContinue reading “684 – It’s just a window”

Whilst out for my morning walk this morning, I was very aware that over the last few walks I had been thinking about video and to a degree taking photos as quick grab shots that were both dissatisfying and did an injustice to the hobby. The epiphany (and really it was a realisation rather thanContinue reading “683 – Not really an Epihany”

When I was 9 or 10 years old I spent a lot of my summer holidays in Swanage. I would do a lot of walking, the lighthouse, Durlston and the Globe, Peveril Point, the pier, and very occasionally,, the amusement arcades, when I could con some money out of my Mum. Up on the Downs,Continue reading “682 – Bowls”

Having had very nice day, up until late afternoon I hadn’t managed to get out for a walk. We needed a few birthday cards posting, and it needed to be in a postbox that would be collected in the morning in time for the afternoon forwarding. Taking the opportunity for a walk, I said thatContinue reading “681 – A quick walk”

I’m reading Country walking issue 434, July 2022, reading the article from page 48. A walker and a geologist are exploring a part of wales where the geologist works. It’s not the walking but the story that is told about the area, and then sidelines such as finding the most boring grid square in theContinue reading “680 – CW Magazine and The Discovery Centre”

The rest of this post is a bit disjointed. They are the notes I dictated as I was walking toward the midway point of my walk. The dictation tool isn’t perfect, it is pretty good but just needs a little bit of editing. Sorry it’s a bit disjointed – good practice for improvisation. There’s justContinue reading “679 – The Morning Walk”

I am very aware that my writing is a bit dry. In an effort to inject some feeling I did an experiment by using the dictation mode on the iphone and dictating what I felt about what my senses were telling me; The sounds of the Morning Chorus, the noise of four squirrels playing inContinue reading “678 – Now, that was annoying!!”