I stumbled across this photo of the old Compendium Bookshop and it triggered a lot of fond memories, I went through this door countless times to spend many a happy hour browsing through obscure texts on pleasingly disorganised shelves. There is more about Compendium here, here and here.
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Welcome to my web site. As I add items the older stuff gets pushed down the page so you will need to scroll down to see it. This front page only shows the most recent entries – to find older articles visit the index page or use the search box. The photo at the top [...]
Dave celebrated his 60th birthday on Sunday with, amongst other things, a meal for friends and family at the Tufnell Park Tavern. It was jolly good fun. The photo are here.
Thirty nine years ago, in the summer of 1972, Jo Robinson and I took a bunch of kids for a day out to look at the trains at Kings Cross. At some point I popped into a photo booth and grabbed a few pics including these two of Kelly Wild sitting on my lap. Yesterday [...]
Isabel and I went on the gigantic demo against the cuts today and encountered a vast cross section of humanity and lot of very funny posters. The photos are here. Here is a selection of some of my favourites. A view along the Embankment (make sure you view this one full size to [...]
We gathered for Geraldine’s 60th birthday party. Old friends were embraced and kissed. News and gossip exchanged. We chatted and laughed. Champagne was drunk and food eaten. There was some dancing. And Ralph read a poem he had written to celebrate the love of his life. Here is the video – it’s a bit dark [...]
Terry left to work in Ethiopia for the next year and the night before she left she held a farewell party. Here are a few seconds of video from what was a very nice night full of old friends.
Yesterday we gathered to celebrate Alison’s 60th Birthday. I remember her 20th birthday, I bought her an album, or an LP as we called it then, it was “Air Conditioning” by the band Curved Air. Seems like yesterday. Where does the time go? The birthday party was great – the photos are here.
Christmas has come and gone and I am left with a lot of nice presents, some photos and a cold. The festive season kicked off with the annual name day gathering at Eva’s on Christmas eve. As usual the food and the company was excellent. Christmas Day was nice and cozy at our place with [...]
Yesterday I had a lovely couple of hours messing about on a snow covered Parliament Hill with my brothers, sister-in-law, my nephews and some toboggans. Great fun. The photos are here.
We had a very small fireworks gathering at my brother Chris’s place. Mostly it was an opportunity for a few beers, conversation and lots of laughs. Very good fun all round. The photos are here.
I have finally got around to posting some of our photos from our American road trip back in July and August. We were away for seven weeks and during that time I shot nearly 5000 photos, although quite a few were multiple exposures of the same shot or multi-shot panoramas. I will only be posting [...]
Isabel and I went for a walk in Waterlow Park yesterday in the glorious early autumn sunshine. The sky was a clear, sharp, pristine blue and all the flowers and autumnal leavers just radiated colour. I haven’t posted anything here since our return from America mostly because the shock of returning to our real lives [...]
